Sydney George Fisher (September 11, 1856 – February 22, 1927) was a United States lawyer and historian, and is best known for his work The True History of the American Revolution.
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| Born | September 11, 1856 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | February 22, 1927 (aged 70) Essington, Pennsylvania |
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| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, historian |
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Biography edit
Sydney George Fisher was born in Philadelphia on September 11, 1856, the only son of Elizabeth (Ingersoll) and Sidney George Fisher.[1][2] His father was also a lawyer and historian. Sydney studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (1879) with a B.A., studied law at the Harvard Law School for two years, and in 1883 was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia and began a law practice. In 1897, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[3]
He died at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Essington, Pennsylvania on February 22, 1927.[2]
Works edit
He was noted for his studies of United States history. His works attained considerable popularity. They include, in addition to numerous magazine articles:
- The Making of Pennsylvania (1896); 2nd edition (1908)
- Pennsylvania, Colony and Commonwealth (1897)
- The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States (1897, and two later editions)
- Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times (2 vols., vol. I vol. II, 1898, and two later editions)
- The True Benjamin Franklin (1899, and six later editions)
- The True William Penn (1900,[4] and three later editions)
- The True History of the American Revolution (1902,[5] and four later editions, then greatly revised and issued in 1908 in 2 vols. as The Struggle for American Independence)
- American Education (1917)
- The Quaker Colonies (1919)
References edit
- ^ Jordan, John W., ed. (1916). Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Illustrated. Vol. VI. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 1965–1967. Retrieved June 20, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b "S. G. Fisher, Oldest Trinity Trustee, Dies". Hartford Courant. Philadelphia (published February 23, 1927). February 22, 1927. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved June 20, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ Brady, Cyrus Townsend (1900). "Review of The True William Penn by Sydney George Fisher". The Book Buyer: A Monthly Review of American and Foreign Literature. Vol. 20. pp. 231–233.
- ^ "Review of The True History of the American Revolution by Sydney George Fisher". The Athenaeum (3938): 487–488. April 18, 1903.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- Lawrence H. Gipson (1931). "Fisher, Sydney George". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
External links edit
- Works by Sydney George Fisher at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Sydney Fisher (1856–1927) at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
