Fisher
Fisher names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Fisher IRVING, an American economist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
IRVING, an American economist; born in Saugerties, N. Y., in 1867. He graduated from Yale in 1888 and afterward studied in Berlin and in Paris. In 1890 he joined the faculty of Yale and became successively assistant professor and professor of political economy, the latter in 1898. From 1896 to 1910 he was editor of the "Yale Review." He was president and director of many important commissions, including the Citizens' Commission on War-Time Prohibition, and the National Conservation Commission, appointed by President Roosevelt. In 1917 he was chairman of the board of scientific directors of the Eugenics Record Office. During the campaign of 1920 he was active in support of the League of Nations as a campaign issue. He wrote "The Nature of Capital and Income" (1906); "The Rate of Interest" (1907); "The Purchasing Power of Money" (1911); "Stabilizing the Dollar" (1919). He also contributed numerous articles to magazines.
Fisher an animal of the marten family
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
an animal of the marten family. It is a dark, glossy black, or brown animal, with occasional white and gray on head and under parts. The body is about twenty-three inches in length; tail, fourteen. It is an animal of the forests,--a bold, active tree-climber, to be found from the Adirondacks westward to the Pacific coast. It is quick as a a mink, and as greedy as a wolverine. Trappers dread the fisher for its adroitness in stealing bait. The animal is capable of following a trail for miles, springing the traps, and stealing the bait. It lives on fish, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, grouse, small birds, snakes, toads, frogs--any meat, dead or alive. The pelt of the fisher is worth about six dollars in the North American markets. See Fur
Fisher ANDREW, High Commissioner of Australia in England
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ANDREW, High Commissioner of Australia in England. He was born at Crosshouse, Kilmarnock, in 1862, and went to Queensland, Australia, the Queensland in 1885. He entered Parliament in 1893, and later became Minister of Railways in the Dawson Ministry. He represented Wide Bay in the Commonwealth Parliament for the first fifteen years of the Parliament. In 1904 he became Minister for Trade and Customs, Commonwealth of Australia; and in 1907 leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor party. In 1908-1909 he was Prime Minister of Australia; in 1909-1910 leader of Federal Opposition, and in 1910-1913 and 1914-1915 Prime Minister. In 1915 he resigned office as Prime Minister to represent Australia in London.
Fisher HERBERT LAURENS, a British legislator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HERBERT LAURENS, a British legislator. He was born in London in 1865 and was educated at Winchester and Oxford University. He divided his time between politics and educational subjects, and in 1912 became a member of the Commission on the Public Services of India. In 1916 he was elected to represent the Hallam Division of Sheffield in Parliament, and in the same year became President of the Board of Education. His publications include: "The Medieval Empire," "Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship," "A Political History of England," "Bonapartism," "Life of F. W. Maitland," "The Republican Tradition in Europe," "Political Unions," "Napoleon Bonaparte," with contributions to many magazines.
Fisher DOROTHY CANFIELD (DOROTHEA FRANCES CANFIELD FISHER)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
DOROTHY CANFIELD (DOROTHEA FRANCES CANFIELD FISHER), an American writer, born in Lawrence, Kan., in 1879. She graduated from the Ohio State University in 1899, and took post-graduate courses at Columbia. In 1907 she married John Redwood Fisher. She traveled and studied extensively in Europe. She wrote several books on educational subjects. Her chief fame, however, rests on her works in fiction, which include "The Squirrel- Cage" (1912); "Hillsboro People” (1915); "The Bent Twig" (1915); "Fellow-Captains" (1916); "The Day of Glory" (1919); "The Brimming Cup" (1919). During the World War she spent three years in France engaged in war work.
Fisher GEORGE PARK, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE PARK, an American educator; born in Wrentham, Mass., Aug. 10, 1827; was graduated at Brown University in 1847; studied theology at the Yale Divinity School; at Andover, and in Germany; was Professor of Divinity in 1854-1861, and subsequently of Ecclesiastical History at Yale. He was the author of "Essays on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity," "History story of the Reformation," "The Grounds of Historic and Christian Belief," "Manual of Christian Evidences," "Colonial History of the United States." He died in 1909.
Fisher HARRISON, an American illustrator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HARRISON, an American illustrator; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1876. He was educated in San Francisco. He was recognized as one of the most talented of American illustrators, and his work appeared in the leading for He made ade illustrations magazines. "The Market Place," by Harold Frederic; "The Eagle's Heart," by Hamlin Garland; and other books. ALBERT
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the seven, the one Collier's could not have foreseen is Irving Fisher, praised in 1921 for Stabilizing the Dollar: in October 1929 he declared stock prices had reached a permanently high plateau, lost his fortune days later, and spent the 1930s writing the debt-deflation theory of depressions that made him, posthumously, the most cited American economist of his generation. The Fisher of the marten family, whose pelt Aiton's priced at six dollars in 1910, was trapped almost out of the eastern forests and then reintroduced from the 1950s onward; it is now common enough in New England suburbs to make local news, and still, despite the name, rarely eats fish. Andrew Fisher, three times Prime Minister of Australia, died in London in 1928 and is remembered chiefly as the man who pledged Australia to Britain to the last man and the last shilling; the British legislator listed as Herbert Laurens is H. A. L. Fisher, author of the 1918 Education Act and of a one-man History of Europe that sold for decades. Dorothy Canfield Fisher became a Book-of-the-Month Club judge and a Vermont institution, though the children's book award named for her was renamed in 2021 over her association with the eugenics movement, an interest Collier's records Irving Fisher sharing; George Park Fisher, the Yale church historian, and Harrison Fisher, whose magazine-cover girls once rivalled Gibson's, are now read and collected only by specialists.
Written for this edition, 2026.