BIO:  George Fisher, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 18

GEORGE FISHER, attorney at law, was born at York, Penn., on the 29th of 
September, 1836, and is a son of Hon. Robert J. Fisher, and his wife Catharine, 
who was a daughter of Horatio Gates Jameson, Sr., M.D., a distinguished surgeon 
and physician of Baltimore.  In April, 1847, George was entered a student at the 
York County Academy, then under the direction of the venerable Rev. Stephen 
Boyer.  From 1851 to 1853, he was a student at Sherwood School, at that time a 
flourishing institution of learning in the vicinity of York, under the direction 
of Maj. Bland, who was at one time an officer in the British Army of that rank.  
From 1853 to 1954, he was a student at the Collegiate Institute, Northampton, 
Mass.  In 1854 he was admitted to the class of 1859, at Yale College.  In 
October, 1856, he removed to Iowa City, and held a position in the office of 
Hon. Elijah Sells, then secretary of state of Iowa.  In 1857 he commenced the 
study of law in York under the direction of his father, Hon. Robert J. Fisher, 
who was then and had been for several years, and for more than twenty years 
afterward, president judge of the Nineteenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, 
and in 1859 he was admitted to the bar of the county of York.  In 1863 he was 
clerk to the board of revenue commissioners of the State of Pennsylvania.  Said 
board was abolished by act of the General Assembly approved April 12, 1864, and 
the powers thereof vested in the State treasurer, auditor-general, and secretary 
of the commonwealth.  In 1869 he removed to Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., Penn., and 
engaged in the practice of the law.  In 1872 he was a candidate for district 
attorney of Monroe County.  There being four candidates before the people for 
the office, he failed of an election by forty votes.  In 1873 he returned to 
York and resumed the practice of law there.  In 1875-76 he was a clerk of the 
house of representatives of Pennsylvania, and during part of the session of 
1876-77, journal clerk.  In 1871 Mr. Fisher married Mary, daughter of Robert 
Barry, of Baltimore, Md., and continues to reside and practice his profession in 
York.