The New International Encyclopædia/Fisher, Joshua Francis

FISHER, Joshua Francis (1807-73). An American author, born in Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated in 1825 at Harvard, and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1829, but did not practice. He became an incorporator of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind and a student of questions of United States, in particular of Pennsylvania, history. His chief publication was The Private Life and Domestic Habits of William Penn (1836). He wrote also an interesting study on The Degradation of Our Representative System and Its Reform (1863), and other works.