Parson Jonathan Fisher (1768–1847) was the first Congregational minister from 1794 to 1837 in the little village of Blue Hill, Maine in the United States. Although his primary duties as a country parson engaged much of his time, Fisher was as a consequence a farmer, scientist, mathematician, surveyor, and writer of prose and poetry. He bound his own books, made buttons and hats, designed and built furniture, painted sleighs, was a reporter for the local newspaper, helped found Bangor Theological Seminary, dug wells, built his own home and raised a large family.
Truly a renaissance man in the breadth of his accomplishments Fisher invites comparison once a Franklin or Jefferson[from whom?]. In his manners, morals and writings Fisher represents the best of the working New England churchmen who shaped the standards of their congregations during America’s formative years.
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