Washington and Jefferson College - Pandora Yearbook (Washington, PA)

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Svamurl Igrnmnler Zlliaher, E. Sv. H JXMUICL ll. l lSlll'IR, now Chief lfngineer of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, was horn at Cherry lfork Adams County, Ohio, Oct. 22l1ll, 1846. lflis fathe1' was a p1'each- er of .1'1111a11 congregation of Scceders 3 and it is said that his grandfather had been forced to leave lingland hy one of the Georges, whose divine appointment the elder liisher denied. Un his mother's side his ances- try can be traced hack to the Covenanters of Scotland. XVhen the subject of this sketch was seven years of age he moved with his parents to a farm near X1Vashington, Pa., and here he was taught the three R's and linally some Latin grammar. He spent some time in Wfash- ington College as a l'rep, and having received a start in Latin, Greek and Mathematics he entered XYashington and Jefferson College. He completed the regular Scientific Cou1'se in three years and graduated with the class of 1868. The Masters Degree was granted him by his Alma Mater in I87l, and at the last Commencement Exercises he was made a Doctor of Science. ln the winter following his graduation he entered the Roger Locomo- tive and Machine X1Vorks at Paterson, N. bl., and from that time until the present day he has been connected with railroads. His early years were spent in repair shops in the vicinity of l ittsburg, but from 1873 till he received his present position in 1895, he was engaged in the construction of railroads. lirom 1885 to 1890 he was employed by the Milwaukee and Northern R. R. as Chief lingineer in extending their lines into northern XVisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan. In ISQZ-3 he was engaged in the construction of the Everett N Monte Cristo Ry. from Puget Sound to the heart of the Cascade Mountain Range in the State of XVashington. Mr. liisher as Chief Engineer of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail- way Co. is now located in St. Louis, Mo. He is engaged in bettering the property, reducing grades, double tracking, enlarging all facilities for trans- portation and trying to keep pace with the rapidly growing southwest. Mr. liisher married Miss Agnes Crooks at l'ittsburg in ISSI. Mrs. lfishcr until her death in IQOO, was Corresponding Secretary of the XMOIUZLIIIS lloard of Missions of the Southwest. She is survived hy two children-a boy and a girl. Mr. Fisher has been a member of the following Societies: lingineer's Society of XVestern llCl'lIlZl., Coriginal memberbg The XVestern Society of lingineers, Chicagog The lCngineer's Club of St. Louisg The American Society of Civil lingineers, New Yorkg The League of American XVheel- meng and The American Railway lingineering and Maintenance of XVay Association. His life is sketched in lliographies of Railroad Men, in Notable St. l.ouisians 1900, in lVho's NVho in America, and in Horringham's Amer- ican lliography 1901. He is a devout l'resbyterian and in several of the churches with which he has united in his pilgrimage he has been ruling elder, which position he now holds in the Second l'resbyterian Church of St. Louis. 32

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