Dr. M.R. Fisher, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

     DR. M. R. FISHER, a well known dentist of this section, was born near
Evergreen, Avoyelles Parish, La., on February 12, 1856, to J. W. and Mary
E. (Peyton) Fisher, who were born in Louisiana and Florida, respectively.
The father attained manhood in this State, and was given the advantages of
Granville College, of Ohio, but afterward devoted his attention to
planting, continuing until the opening of the war, at which time he left
the plow to take up arms in defending the Southern cause, serving
throughout the entire struggle.  Like most other planters of the South, he
suffered immense losses during this time, and after returning home he began
teaching school, a calling he followed for some years in St. Landry Parish,
proving himself an able educator.  His wife died in Evergreen in 1871, and
in 1880 Mr. Fisher removed to Texas, in which State he was married to Mrs.
Clampitt, of Melican, Tex.  He continued the occupation of teaching school
in this State until his death, which occurred in 1884.  The early education
of Dr. M. R. Fisher was received in the private schools of Louisiana, but
after attaining his fourteenth year his attention was given to planting in
Avoyelles Parish, to which occupation he devoted his entire time until
1882, when he began private studying of dentistry, with the intention of
making it a profession, but continued to operate the plantation until 1887.
 He then entered the Pennsylvania Dental College of Philadelphia, from
which institution he was graduated in the month of March, 1889, with high
honors.  He then practiced his profession at Big Cane, La., until June,
1890, when he removed to Alexandria, where he has built up a practice which
is very flattering to his ability.  He is a man of remarkably fine
physique, a fact which is, no doubt, owing to the active life he has led,
as well as to inheritance.  He is remarkably handsome, and his countenance
bears the impress of that intellectual and social refinement that marks the
true gentleman.  He has acquired a State reputation as a dentist, and is a
man whom all delight to honor.