Hon. Horatio Gates Fisher

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Hon. Horatio Gates Fisher
Birthdate:	April 21, 1838
Birthplace:	Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death:	May 08, 1890 (52) Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, USA
Place of Burial:	Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, USA
Immediate Family:	Son of Thomas Fisher and Rachel Jackson Husband of Margaret Foley Fisher Father of James Gwin Fisher; Stacy Barcroft Fisher; Anna Fisher; Thomas Fisher, Jr.; Rachel Patton Fisher and 1 other; and John Augustus Fisher « less Brother of Frances Jackson Fisher; Rebecca Fisher; Mary Lyon Fisher; Williamina Fisher; Thomas C. Fisher and 4 others

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US Congressman. Elected as a Republican to represent Pennsylvania's 18th District in the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses, he served from 1879 to 1883. Fisher graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania in 1855 and for the most of his life was engaged in the mining, shipping and wholesale of coal in his native Huntingdon. He was a member of the Huntingdon Borough Council (1862 to 1865), Auditor of Huntingdon County (1865 to 1868), Borough Burgess of Hungtingdon (1874 to 1876), and a member of the State Senate (1876 to 1879) before taking his seat in the US House. During his second Congressional term he was Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures. Fisher declined to run for reelection in 1882 and returned to his business interests. In 1888 Governor Beaver appointed him a member of the managing board of the Huntingdon Reformatory.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Sep 10 2019, 8:08:57 UTC

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1838	April 21, 1838	Birth of Hon. Horatio Gates Fisher Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, USA
1862	September 7, 1862	Birth of James Gwin Fisher
1864	July 23, 1864	Birth of Stacy Barcroft Fisher
1866	March 6, 1866	Birth of Anna Fisher
1867	August 1867	Birth of Thomas Fisher, Jr.
1869	September 23, 1869	Birth of Rachel Patton Fisher
1873	February 20, 1873	Birth of John Augustus Fisher
1890	May 8, 1890 Age 52	Death of Hon. Horatio Gates Fisher at Punxsutawney, ... Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, USA
????		Burial of Hon. Horatio Gates Fisher Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, USA

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