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Clarke Publishing Co. (1918) Vol. II p.492, 494 photo p. 493 CASSIUS ASA FISHER. Cassius Asa Fisher, consulting geologist and engineer, specializing in oil, and a well known figure in scientific circles was born in Fremont. Nebraska, on the 15th day of February, 1872, a son of Marcius Clay and Nellie (Le Prone) Fisher. Liberal educational opportunities were afforded him, opportunities that he splendidly improved. He is a graduate of the Fremont Normal School of the class of 1892 and of the University of Nebraska, which conferred upon him the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1898 and the Master of Arts degree in 1900. He won special distinction in scientific lines while a student at that Institution and was on graduation elected to the Sigma Psi scholarship fraternity. Later he was given a fellowship in geology at the University of Nebraska, where he studied from 1898 to 1900. His graduate work for Doctor of Philosophy was done at Yale University in 1902 and 1903. In June of the latter year he became assistant geologist in the United States Geological Survey, and for many years continued to act for the government in his professional capacity. He was advanced rapidly in this work, and in 1909 when he resigned from the government service he was assistant chief of the fuel section of the United States Geological Survey in charge of coal investigations throughout the entire west. He is now consulting geologist and engineer for the Midwest Refining Company, and for the Midwest Oil Company. He has also served in a professional capacity during the past four years with the natural resource department of the Canadian Pacific Railway, operating in western Canada and also several other large oil producing concerns throughout the Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent oil fields in this country. He is the author of the first comprehensive geological report made of the Big Horn basin of Wyoming, where a number of valuable oil fields have since been discovered. He was prominently identified in an engineering capacity with the organization of the Midwest Oil Company, out of which later grew the Midwest Refining Company, and at the present time is a director and vice president of the parent company. While with the department of the interior, Mr. Fisher in connection with the Bureau of Mines, was in charge of the navy fuel expedition to Alaska to establish a coaling station, and was one of the three originators of the present method employed by the government of valuation of coal lands on the public domain. His name is well known as the author of numerous reports and technical articles on fuel, on which subject he is regarded as an authority. During the past ten years Mr. Fisher has devoted his entire time to the geology of fuels, especially petroleum and during this period has been the pioneer geologist in the discovery and development of the Wyoming oil fields, the value of which are now generally conceded to aggregate seven hundred, million dollars, a fitting testimonial to his success in his chosen profession. On the 22d of August, 1905, at Osceola, Nebraska, Mr. Fisher was united in marriage to Miss Evangeline Hazelwood and they have three children, Eleanora, Maurice Nixon and Robert Vernon. The family residence is at No. 314 Franklin, street in Denver, Colorado, and Mr. Fisher has his offices in this city. He is a member of the Denver Club of Denver, the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C., the Royal Societies Club of London, England, and is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and many other scientific and technical societies, which shows the nature and breadth of his interests. His engineering activities during the past decade has extended throughout Europe, Alaska, Canada, Cuba, Mexico and other countries. He is a man of culture, of charming manner, of unfailing courtesy and of high purpose. He has become a recognized leader in his profession, advancing step by step until he has today few compeers and no superiors as a petroleum geologist and engineer in the United States.