C. ARTHUR FISHER, the present supervisor of Schuylkill township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, in which vicinity his birth occurred January 20, 1877, is an enterprising and prosperous agriculturist, and his record as a business man in characterized by the utmost integrity and honesty. He is the son of General Benjamin F. Fisher, who responded to President Lincoln's first proclamation calling for militia from the several states to the number of seventy-five thousand men, to serve for three months. He was active in the signal corps, later served in the capacity of lieutenant and subsequently was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, which position he filled with ability until the termination of the war. In 1875 he purchased the farm in Schuylkill township on which his son C. Arthur Fisher, now resides and for fifteen years successfully conducted a general farming business. He is now following his profession of lawyer, having been admitted a member of the Philadelphia bar in 1867. He is an able and honest practitioner, well skilled in the intricacies of the law, and his practice is both extensive and lucrative. His residence is at 1100 North Fortieth street, Philadelphia.
C. Arthur Fisher, son of General Benjamin and Alice E. Fisher, was educated in the public schools of Schuylkill township, at the Quaker school in Philadelphia, and at Franklin and Marshall College. He began his business career as a clerk in his father's law office in the city of Philadelphia, where he remained for several years. He devoted the following two years of his life to the study of law, after which he decided to become an agriculturist, and since that date has conducted his operations on the homestead farm which contains eighty-two acres of rich and arable land, which was formerly the property of Joseph Anderson. His farm is well cultivated and very productive and ranks as one of the best pieces of property in that section of the state. Mr. Fisher is alive to every measure or enterprise that is of benefit to the community, is a Republican in politics, and was elected supervisor of the township in February, 1903.
On April 30, 1902, Mr. Fisher was united in marriage to Annie R. Hoy, a daughter of John L. and Elizabeth (Cotes) Hoy. Mr. Fisher and his wife are consistent members of the Episcopal church of Phoenixville, Chester county.
John L. Hoy, father of Mrs. C. Arthur Fisher, was a union soldier of the late war, and the proprietor of the well-known Mansion house of Valley Forge. He is a son of Bernard and Sarah (Curry) Hoy, and was born at Norristown, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania November 4, 1837. ((See biography of John L. Hoy))
Source: Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania. Volume I. Lewis Publishing Company, 1904