Horace Newton Fisher

Background

Fisher, Horace Newton was born on October 19, 1836 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis and Lydia (Kittredge) Fisher.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1857, Bachelor of Laws, 1859, Master of Arts, 1860. Studied in Europe, 1859-1861.

Career

Entered army Lieutenant and volunteer a.-daughter-c. Army of Ohio, February 14, 1862. Captain and military engineer, May, 1862.

Captain and topographical engineer, October, 1862, Army of Cumberland.

Lieutenant-colonel and inspector-general, May-November, 1863. Resigned, November 10, 1863, on account of wounds in Chickamauga campaign.

In commission business, Boston, 1867-1876. Traveled in South America, 1879-1880, securing political and commercial data that assisted in shaping United States Government policy toward South America republics.

Consul of Chili in Boston, since 1876.

Lecturer on consular institutions and common law of Spanish America, Boston University, 1903-1904. Engaged in research for production of work on the Common Law of Spanish America and Philippine Islands, for which he obtained at Madrid, 1905, a complete collection of old Castilian laws from time of Alaric, and rare works, given by Royal Academy of History. The completed course of 25 lectures was destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake, 1906, but they are being rewritten and enlarged for publication as a treatise.

Achievements

• Horace Newton Fisher has been listed as a noteworthy consul. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Sociedad Nacional de Agriculture de Chile, Sociedad de Fomento Fabril de Chile, Loyal Legion, American Academy Political and Social Science, et cetera President official delegation of Chile, and delegation of Sociedad de Fomento Fabril, at fifth International Congress of Chambers of Commerce, Boston, 1912.

Connections

Married Kiameche C. Mason, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, November 13, 1865.

Father:

Francis Fisher

Mother:

Lydia (Kittredge) Fisher

Spouse:

Kiameche C. Mason