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| | PHILIP MELANCTHON FISHER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Philip Melancthon Fisher, Superintendent of Schools of Alameda county since 1883, was born in Berlin, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, June 1, 1852, a son of J. Henry and Anna (Gilbert) Fisher, both natives of Germany (near Marburg), and there married. |
 | | Benjamin Collins, went as a missionary of the English Lutheran Church to Liberia, was taken sick with malaria, and died at sea on the return voyage in 1875, at the age of twenty-seven. |
 | | Fisher was educated in the public schools of Berlin, Pennsylvania, and made his first venture in school-teaching in October, 1866, taking charge of thirty-five children early in his fifteenth year. |
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