44 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



[From minutes of Executive Board of Cincinnati Society of Natural 

 History. Called meeting.] 



WILLIAM H. FISHER 



Death has invaded the ranks of the Executive Board and 

 taken from the Society of Natural History its honored Presi- 

 dent, WilHam Hubbell Fisher, after an illness of less than 

 three days. 



He was at his office on Saturday, October 2, 1909, in the 

 best of spirits, and for aught he knew in the best of health, 

 having just returned from his vacation. On Sunday night he 

 was taken suddenly ill and died at three o'clock Wednesday 

 afternoon, October 6, 1909. 



Mr. Fisher was born in Albany, New York, in November, 

 1843, and had all but completed his 66th year. He graduated 

 from Hamilton College in 1864, and took his law course at 

 Columbia College. He was admitted to the bar in the state of 

 New York in 1867, and for the next three years practiced at 

 Utica, that state, in partnership with John S. Crocker, an emi- 

 nent patent lawyer. In 1870 he removed to Cincinnati and 

 associated himself with his relative. Col. S. S. Fisher, at that 

 time ex-Commissioner of Patents, and the leading patent lawyer 

 of this city. This partnership continued until 1873, when Mr. 

 Wm. Hubbell Fisher withdrew, and from that time until his 

 death he had no partner in his professional work. His practice 

 was in the law relating to patents, trade-marks and the like, and 

 he never engaged in what is known as general practice. 



He joined the Society of Natural History in 1881, and in 

 1895 became a Life Member of the Society. He was elected 

 First Vice-President in 1886, and was re-elected in 1887 and 

 1888. In 1889 he was chosen President of the Society. In 

 1899 he was elected a member-at-large of the Executive Board, 

 and was successively re-elected annually thereafter to 1906 in- 

 clusive. At the last annual election he was elected President for 

 the second time, and was serving as such at the time of his death. 



