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Frederick Bohn Fisher


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, missionary, author, and official in the Methodist missionary and men's movements.

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.

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.

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).


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