Ezra Fisher
Reverend Ezra Fisher (1800 – 1874) was an American Baptist missionary and pioneer from Oregon.[1]
Biography
Ezra Fisher was born in Wendell, Massachusetts on January 6, 1800.[2] He attended Amherst College beginning in 1822, graduating in 1828 after illness delayed his studies.[2] He entered Newton Theological Seminary in 1829.[2] In 1830, he was ordained as a minister and he married the same year.[2] Fisher came to the Oregon Country in 1845, with the Rev. Hezekiah Johnson and their families as employees of the American Baptist Home Mission Society.[3] The Fisher family spent winter in the cabin of fellow Baptist David T. Lenox and his family on the Tualatin Plains.[2] Later he joined the California Gold Rush and returned to Oregon with about $1,000 in gold.[1] In 1850, he bought Sam Barlow's original land claim near Oregon City.[1] He helped found Oregon City College, a predecessor of Linfield College.[1] Fisher moved to The Dalles in 1861, where he preached and served as the Wasco County school superintendent.[1]
Legacy
Ezra Fisher is one of the 158 names of people important to Oregon's history that are painted in the House and Senate chambers of the Oregon State Capitol.[1] Fisher's name is in the Senate chamber.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f Cogswell, Jr., Philip (1977). Capitol Names: Individuals Woven Into Oregon's History. Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society. p. 47.
- ^ a b c d e Sarah Fisher Henderson, Nellie Edith Latourette, and Kenneth Scott Latourette "Correspondence of the Reverend Ezra Fisher". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 16. Oregon Historical Society: 65–104. March–December 1915. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
{{cite journal}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Mattoon, C.H. (1905). "Baptist Annals of Oregon". Retrieved April 26, 2014.
External links
- Works by or about Ezra Fisher at the Internet Archive
- Rev Ezra Fisher at Find a Grave
- Correspondence of the Reverend Ezra Fisher: Pioneer Missionary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Oregon (full text from archive.org)
- Image of Ezra Fisher from Oregon Historical Society
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