Jacob Adison Lawyer Fisher (1845-1892) was a Civil War soldier in the Union Army. Fisher enlisted in the 93rd New York Infantry Regiment; Company F on January 23, 1862 at Albany, New York. The 93rd quickly earned a reputation as a well trained and efficient fighting regiment. Fisher was badly wounded during the assault on Petersburg, Virginia on June 17, 1864, and suffered a permanent disability to his right arm. He was mustered out of the Union Army on June 29, 1865 at Washington, DC.
Originally emigrating from the Palatine region of Germany in 1710, his family was among the earliest settlers of Schoharie County, New York, farming nearly three hundred acres. Fisher was the son of Jacob Fisher and Sophia Schell. In 1870, Fisher married Juliette Wire. Their union produced three daughters, Lucy, Cornelia and Clara.
Jacob A. L. Fisher's cenotaph 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 representing Fisher. He is depicted on the monument in profile, dressed in 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 Fisher's uncle, Abraham Schell (1817-1894), and officially unveiled with great ceremony on July 4, 1894. The unusual reference on the monument to Civil War Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll's essay "Humboldt" (1869) suggests that 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."
This monument is a cenotaph. It is likely that Jacob A. L. Fisher was buried alongside family members at nearby Central Bridge Cemetery and not beneath the impressive Soldiers' Monument dedicated in his honor at the Old Stone Fort Cemetery.
Cemetery GPS coordinates:
N 42° 40' 35"
W 74° 18' 05"
Originally emigrating from the Palatine region of Germany in 1710, his family was among the earliest settlers of Schoharie County, New York, farming nearly three hundred acres. Fisher was the son of Jacob Fisher and Sophia Schell. In 1870, Fisher married Juliette Wire. Their union produced three daughters, Lucy, Cornelia and Clara.
Jacob A. L. Fisher's cenotaph 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 representing Fisher. He is depicted on the monument in profile, dressed in 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 Fisher's uncle, Abraham Schell (1817-1894), and officially unveiled with great ceremony on July 4, 1894. The unusual reference on the monument to Civil War Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll's essay "Humboldt" (1869) suggests that 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."
This monument is a cenotaph. It is likely that Jacob A. L. Fisher was buried alongside family members at nearby Central Bridge Cemetery and not beneath the impressive Soldiers' Monument dedicated in his honor at the Old Stone Fort Cemetery.
Cemetery GPS coordinates:
N 42° 40' 35"
W 74° 18' 05"
Jacob Adison Lawyer Fisher (1845-1892) was a Civil War soldier in the Union Army. Fisher enlisted in the 93rd New York Infantry Regiment; Company F on January 23, 1862 at Albany, New York. The 93rd quickly earned a reputation as a well trained and efficient fighting regiment. Fisher was badly wounded during the assault on Petersburg, Virginia on June 17, 1864, and suffered a permanent disability to his right arm. He was mustered out of the Union Army on June 29, 1865 at Washington, DC.
Originally emigrating from the Palatine region of Germany in 1710, his family was among the earliest settlers of Schoharie County, New York, farming nearly three hundred acres. Fisher was the son of Jacob Fisher and Sophia Schell. In 1870, Fisher married Juliette Wire. Their union produced three daughters, Lucy, Cornelia and Clara.
Jacob A. L. Fisher's cenotaph 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 representing Fisher. He is depicted on the monument in profile, dressed in 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 Fisher's uncle, Abraham Schell (1817-1894), and officially unveiled with great ceremony on July 4, 1894. The unusual reference on the monument to Civil War Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll's essay "Humboldt" (1869) suggests that 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."
This monument is a cenotaph. It is likely that Jacob A. L. Fisher was buried alongside family members at nearby Central Bridge Cemetery and not beneath the impressive Soldiers' Monument dedicated in his honor at the Old Stone Fort Cemetery.
Cemetery GPS coordinates:
N 42° 40' 35"
W 74° 18' 05"
Originally emigrating from the Palatine region of Germany in 1710, his family was among the earliest settlers of Schoharie County, New York, farming nearly three hundred acres. Fisher was the son of Jacob Fisher and Sophia Schell. In 1870, Fisher married Juliette Wire. Their union produced three daughters, Lucy, Cornelia and Clara.
Jacob A. L. Fisher's cenotaph 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 representing Fisher. He is depicted on the monument in profile, dressed in 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 Fisher's uncle, Abraham Schell (1817-1894), and officially unveiled with great ceremony on July 4, 1894. The unusual reference on the monument to Civil War Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll's essay "Humboldt" (1869) suggests that 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."
This monument is a cenotaph. It is likely that Jacob A. L. Fisher was buried alongside family members at nearby Central Bridge Cemetery and not beneath the impressive Soldiers' Monument dedicated in his honor at the Old Stone Fort Cemetery.
Cemetery GPS coordinates:
N 42° 40' 35"
W 74° 18' 05"
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