Fisher, Jonathan, 1768-1847 (Personal Name)

Gillet, D. A sermon on infant baptism ... 1804.

Taylor, A. Hymns for infant minds, 1820: p. 13 (J.F., engraver)

MWA/NAIP files (hdg.: Fisher, Jonathan, 1768-1847; note: author, engraver, and minister at Blue Hill, Maine)

NUCMC data from Maine Hist. Soc. for Jonathan Fisher collection, 1957-1980 (Parson Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) was the first Congregational minister from 1794 to 1837 in the small village of Blue Hill, Me. Although his primary duties as a country parson engaged much of his time, Fisher was also a farmer, scientist, mathematician, surveyor, and writer of prose and poetry. He bound his own books, made buttons and hats, designed and built furniture, painted sleighs, was a reporter for the local newspaper, helped found Bangor Theological Seminary, dug wells, built his own home and raised a large family. Jonathan Fisher's home in Blue Hill, Me., is open to the public seasonally. It is maintained and operated by The Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc., and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969)