Sydney George Fisher

Sydney George Fisher (September 11, 1856 Philadelphia - February 22, 1927 Essington, Pennsylvania) was a United States lawyer and historian.

Biography

He was the only son of Elizabeth (Ingersoll) and Sidney George Fisher. His father was also a lawyer and historian. Sydney studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (1879) with a B.A., studied law at the Harvard Law School for two years, and in 1883 was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia and began a law practice.

Works

He was noted for his studies of United States history. His works attained considerable popularity. They include, in addition to numerous magazine articles:

• The Making of Pennsylvania (1896)
• Pennsylvania, Colony and Commonwealth (1897)
• The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States (1897, and two later editions)
• Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times (2 vols., 1898, and two later editions)
• The True Benjamin Franklin (1899, and six later editions)
• The True William Penn (1900, and three later editions)
• The True Story of the Revolutionary War (1902, and four later editions, then greatly revised and issued in 1908 in 2 vols. as The Struggle for American Independence)
• American Education (1917)
• The Quaker Colonies (1919)

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Sydney, George Fisher". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• Lawrence H. Gipson (1931). "Sydney, George Fisher". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.