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Prof. Alex M. Fisher of Y.COL. (1794-1822), lost in the
Albion
April 22nd, 1822..Americanjournalo51822newh 0008. Professor Alexander Metcalf Fisher, age 28, head of the Mathematics Department at Yale College (now University) in New Haven, Connecticut. His fiancée, Catharine Beecher (sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe), used the money Fisher bequeathed to her and founded the Hartford Female Seminary. It is due to Fisher’s death that Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt-Book, the successful cookbook, was written.
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Source | American Journal of Science (1822) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q75698
, S. S. Jocelyn Sc
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