Born: March 10, 1886, New Berne, North Car­o­li­na.

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 6, 1946, Dall­as, Tex­as.

Buried: Mount Ol­iv­et Cem­e­te­ry, Fort Worth, Tex­as.

Fisher at­tended Fort Worth Un­i­ver­si­ty and Pol­y­tech­nic Coll­ege, Fort Worth, Tex­as; Van­der­bilt Un­i­ver­si­ty; South­ern Meth­od­ist Un­i­vers­ity; and earned his Doc­tor of Di­vin­i­ty de­gree at As­bu­ry Coll­ege, Ken­tucky. He moved to Fort Worth in 1908, and for a de­cade served as a gen­er­al evan­gel­ist for the Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church, South. In World War I, he was a mil­i­ta­ry chap­lain. Af­ter the war, he worked in the East Ok­la­ho­ma Con­fer­ence and (be­gin­ning in 1944), the North Tex­as Con­fer­ence. His works include:

• Best Re­viv­al Songs (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: The Cokes­bu­ry Press, 1924) (mu­sic ed­it­or)

Sources

Hymns

1. Always Bear Your Burdens with a Smile (© 1924)
2. It Is Glory to Talk with Him
3. Love Is the Theme
4. There’s a Glad New Song (© 1956)