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T. D. FISHER, M. D., Le Roy; (whose portrait has a place in this work), was born in Ligonier, Westmoreland Co., Penn., Oct. 1, 1826; his father Abel was of Quaker origin, and was born in Pennsylvania, June 3, 1788, and died March 19, 1876; his mother, whose maiden name was Hannah Stewart, was of Scotch descent, born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., and died June 29, 1840. Dr. Fisher lived at home until he was 21 years of age, and received his early education at the “Ligonier Academy;” in the year 1848, he read medicine under Dr. T. Richardson, of Pleasant Unity, Penn., and, in 1850, attended his first course of lectures at Cleveland, Ohio, in the Medical Department of the Western Reserve Medical College; in May, 1853, he commenced the practice of medicine in Le Roy, and having attended the Rush Medical College, of Chicago, during the session of 1856-57, graduated from that institution, and has ever since continued the practice of medicine in Le Roy, and has built up a large and lucrative practice. He was President of the McLean County Medical Society in the year 1876, and was also a member of the Illinois State Medical Society. He married Miss Henrietta Lisenbey, of De Witt Co., Ill., in the year 1853. Dr. Fisher may appropriately be called a “self-made man,” being eminently a man of self-reliance; having accumulated the means by which to obtain a medical education by teaching school. He has always been a strictly temperate man, using neither tobacco, whisky or any intoxicating liquors.