Fisher, Jonathan, 1768-1847

Wood engraver and portrait and landscape painter in Blue Hill, Maine. Also clergyman, author, poet, linguist, inventor, farmer, surveyer, architect, naturalist, missionary, and teacher.

From the description of Painting : in water color : holograph ms., [undated] / [by Jonathan Fisher]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502688

Congregational clergyman, author, and engraver, of Blue Hill, Me.

From the description of Jonathan Fisher sermons and list of texts, 1830-1832. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 173481527

Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), son of Jonathan and Catharine Avery Fisher, was born in New Braintree, Mass. He graduated from Harvard College in 1792 and then spent three years at Cambridge, Mass., as a resident graduate studying theology and language, particularly Hebrew. He was licensed to preach in 1793 and in 1794 and 1795 he served as "summer pastor" for the Congregational Church at Blue Hill, Maine. He was ordained by that church in 1796 and became Blue Hill's first settled minister. He preached there for 41 years, retiring in 1837. He married Dolly Battle (1770-1853) of Dedham, Mass., in 1796. He was elected a Trustee of the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1814.

During his lifetime, Fisher displayed "unusual talents" in the fields of painting, wood engraving, writing of poetry and prose, science, mathematics, surveying, and farm management. While in college he devised a unique shorthand, which he used in writing his sermons. Fisher died in Blue Hill.

From the description of Papers, 1791-1826. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 214070248