Sydney George Fisher

Not to be confused with Sidney George Fisher.

Sydney George Fisher (September 11, 1856 Philadelphia - February 22, 1927 Essington, Pennsylvania) was a United States lawyer and historian, and is best known for his work "The True History of the American Revolution."

Biography

He was the only son of Elizabeth (Ingersoll) and Sidney George Fisher. His father was also a lawyer and historian. Sydney studied at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (1879) with a B.A., studied law at the Harvard Law School for two years, and in 1883 was admitted to the bar at Philadelphia and began a law practice.

Works

He was noted for his studies of United States history. His works attained considerable popularity. They include, in addition to numerous magazine articles:

• The Making of Pennsylvania (1896); 2nd edition (1908)
• Pennsylvania, Colony and Commonwealth (1897)
• The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States (1897, and two later editions)
• Men, Women, and Manners in Colonial Times (2 vols., vol. I vol. II, 1898, and two later editions)
• The True Benjamin Franklin (1899, and six later editions)
• The True William Penn (1900, and three later editions)
• The True History of the American Revolution (1902, and four later editions, then greatly revised and issued in 1908 in 2 vols. as The Struggle for American Independence)
• American Education (1917)
• The Quaker Colonies (1919)

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Sydney, George Fisher" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• Lawrence H. Gipson (1931). "Sydney, George Fisher". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

External links

• Works by Sydney George Fisher at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Sydney Fisher (1856–1927) at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)