The New International Encyclopædia/Fisher, Sydney George

FISHER, Sydney George (1856—). An American lawyer and writer, born in Philadelphia, he graduated at Trinity College in 1879, studied law at the Harvard Law School for two years, and in 1883 was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia. His publications, which are mostly on subjects connected with American history, have 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); Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times (2 vols., 1898); The True Benjamin Franklin (1899); The True William Penn (1900); and The True Story of the Revolutionary War (1902).