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Fisher, Walter Taylor was born on February 20, 1892 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter Lowrie and Mabel (Taylor) Fisher.
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Title: An account of some of the labours, exercises, travels and perils, by sea and land, of John Taylor, of York : and also, his deliverances, by way of journal ... Author: John Taylor Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP00631100 CollectionID: CTRG10180454-B PublicationDate: 17100101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Collation: [12], 77 p. ; cm
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Fisher, Walter Taylor was born on February 20, 1892 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Walter Lowrie and Mabel (Taylor) Fisher.
Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, 1913). University of Chicago and Harvard Law School (Bachelor of Laws, 1917).
Assistant General Counsel, War Finance Corporation, Washington, 1921-1922. President, Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago, 1926-1929. Counsel for Chicago agy.
RFC, 19321933. Alt. Public Member National Def. Mediation Board, 1941. Trustee, University of Illinois, 1929-1931.
President, Chicago Council Foreign Relations, 1944-1946. Lecturer, Northwestern University Law School, 1962.
Law clerk with Matz, Fisher & Boyden, Chicago, 1917. With Bell, Boyd & Lloyd., from 1918. Chairman Illinois Commerce Commission, 1949-1953.
Assistant general counsel War Finance Corporation, Washington, 1921-1922. President Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago, 1926-1929. Counsel for Chicago agency Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1932-1933.
Alternate public member National Defense Mediation Board, 1941. Member President's Emergency Boards in national nonoperating railway employees case, 1943, and other cases. Also mediator, arbitrator or permanent umpire for various labor disputes.
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Trustee University Illinois, 1929-1931. President Chicago Council Foreign Relations, 1944-1946. Lecturer Northwestern University Law School, 1962.
Member American Bar Association (chairman committee on lawyer referral service 1956-1957), Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association (chairman committee initiating lawyer reference plan for low-cost legal service 1939-1943) Clubs: Law, Legal (president 1936-1937), City (president 1925-1927), University, Attic.
Married Katharine Dummer, August 21, 1915 (deceased 1961). Children– Walter, Ethel, John, Roger, Francis, Gerard Henderson. Married Margaret W. Rieser, January 25, 1962 (deceased 1978).
Married Laura K. Pollak, November 2, 1979.