| Birth: | 1845
Schoharie County
New York, USA | | Death: | 1892
Schoharie County
New York, USA | 
Colonel Jacob Adison Lawyer Fisher (1845-1892) was a Civil War soldier in the Union Army. Of German descent, his family was among the earliest settlers of Schoharie County, New York, farming nearly three hundred acres. Colonel Fisher's monument is an impressive white bronze (zinc) monument, which at one time was topped with a life sized statue of a Civil War soldier. It originally stood nearly twenty-seven feet tall. The monument was created by the Des Moines, Iowa subsidiary of the Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is adorned with a small relief bust of Colonel Fisher. He is depicted on the monument in profile, dressed in his military uniform. Around the sides of the monument are images of crossed cannons, flags, and an eagle with its wings spread. The monument has four columns, and between each column are inscription plaques. The monument was erected by Colonel Fisher's uncle, Abraham Schell (1817-1894), and officially unveiled with great ceremony on July 4, 1894. The unusual reference on the monument to fellow Civil War Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll's essay "Humboldt" (1869) suggests that Colonel Fisher was a freethinker. The tenets are to oppose all forms of injustice and to embrace reason, instead of religion and superstition. Beliefs are formed on the basis of science and logic and not influenced by emotion, authority, tradition, or any dogma. Freethinkers tended to be liberal, espousing ideals such as racial, social, and sexual equality, and the abolition of slavery.
Plaque #1: Jacob A. L. Fisher 1845--1892. Wilderness. Spotsylvania. Cold Harbor. Petersburg. (All Civil War battles which occured in Virginia in 1864 under the Union Army command of Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant)
Plaque #2: This monument is dedicated to the dead here by Abraham Schell and Catherine B. Schell
Plaque #3: When the bugle note sounded "To the Rescue!"--He rushed to the field.
Plaque #4: He agreed with the great Humboldt (by Robert G. Ingersoll) --"The universe is governed by law."
Cemetery GPS coordinates:
N 42° 40' 35"
W 74° 18' 05"
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Old Stone Fort Cemetery
Schoharie
Schoharie County
New York, USA |
Created by: Frank J. Leskovitz
Record added: Dec 01, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 31868346 |
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