Frederick Bohn Fisher

For other people called Fred or Frederick Fisher, see Frederick Fisher (disambiguation).

Frederick Bohn Fisher (14 February 1882 – 15 April 1938) was a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1920. He also gained notability as a Pastor, a Missionary, an Author, and as an Official in Methodist Missionary and Men's movements.

Birth and Family

Fisher was born in Greencastle, Pennsylvania. He was of English ancestry, the son of James Edward and Josephine (née Shirey) Fisher. He married Edith Jackson 4 February 1903. In 1924 he married Welthy Honsinger.

Education

He graduated from Muncie, Indiana High School. He earned both B.S. and A.B. degrees from Asbury University in 1902. He studied at both Boston University and Harvard Divinity School, 1907-08.

Ordained Ministry and Missionary Service

Rev. Fisher entered the North Indiana Annual Conference of the M.E. Church, serving as Pastor in Kokomo, Indiana (1903). He then went as a Missionary to Agra, India (the North West India Conference), serving 1904-05. He transferred his conference membership to the New England Annual Conference, serving the First M.E. Church in Boston (1907).

Rev. Fisher then became the Eastern Field Secretary for the Board of Foreign Missions of the M.E. Church (1911–12). He was then appointed the General Secretary of the Laymen's Missionary Movement of his denomination (1913–15), then the Associate General Secretary of the Laymen's Missionary Movement in the U.S.A. and Canada (beginning in 1916), transferring his conference membership back to the North Indiana Conference in 1913. His office was located at 1 Madison Avenue, New York City. He resided in Edgewater, New Jersey.

Rev. Fisher was a delegate to the World's Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, 1910. He was a Trustee of Asbury College, as well. In his official capacities, he organized conventions of Methodist Men in Indianapolis (1913), Boston (1914), and Columbus, Ohio (1915). The volumes Militant Methodism, New England Methodism, and The Challenge of Today were produced as a result.

Episcopal Ministry

Rev. Fisher was elected to the Episcopacy in 1920 and assigned as Resident Bishop of the Calcutta Episcopal Area. In 1930 he returned to the U.S.A. and became Bishop of the Detroit Area, residing in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He resigned the Episcopacy in 1930. He died 15 April 1938 in Detroit.

Selected Writings

• Editor, Militant Methodism, New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1913.
• Editor, New England Methodism, New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1914.
• Editor, The Challenge of Today, New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1915.
• The Way to Win, New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1915.

References

• "FISHER, Rev. Frederick Bohn" in Who's Who in American Methodism, Carl F. Price, Compiler and Editor, New York: E.B. Treat & Co., 1916, p. 71.

See also

• List of Bishops of the United Methodist Church