Background
Fisher was born July 4, 1862 in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) to Daniel Webster Fisher (1838 – 1913), a presbyterian minister, and his wife Amanda D. Kouns († 1911).
Fisher was born July 4, 1862 in Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia) to Daniel Webster Fisher (1838 – 1913), a presbyterian minister, and his wife Amanda D. Kouns († 1911).
Educated at Hanover College in Indiana from which he graduated in 1883.
While at Hanover, he was initiated into the Chi Chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity. In 1890, he was elected as the fifth Grand Consul (the National President) of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, a position he held until 1892. His papers, covering his professional and political careers and containing 14,000 items, are in the Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia Fisher had a brother, Doctor Howard Lowrie Fisher, who established a hospital for war victims in France during World War I. He survived the sinking of the Rated Maximum Sinusoidal Lusitania in 1915 by jumping off the ship.
Doctor Fisher died November 9, 1935 in Winnetka, Illinois.