Lewis was reared upon the farm, being the only son, where he formed habits of industry and integrity and developed a robust constitution. At the age of seventeen he left the paternal homestead and after peddling for a time in Rhode Island, was employed for four years in a shoe factory at Lynn, Massachusetts. Returning to his native town he enlisted in August, 1861, as a private in Company H, Fourth Vermont regiment. 

At the organization of his company, he was appointed orderly sergeant. During the winter of 1861- '62 he was confined to the hospital at Camp Griffin by a violent fever, but later shared the fortunes of the Old Vermont brigade in its several campaigns with the exception of a brief service as recruiting officer until he was captured at the Weldon Railroad in June, 1864. Meanwhile he had become a lieutenant and as an officer, after a few days in Richmond at Libbey prison, was sent to the stockade at Macon, Georgia, later at Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, and rejoined his regiment in May, 1865, and was promoted captain. 

Mr. Fisher married, in 1864, Alvira J. Fisher and they have one daughter, Fidelia H. Fisher, who resides with them. Soon after his return from the army Captain Fisher bought a farm in what is now the town of Stannard, helped organize the town, holding several important offices, and was its first representative in the legislature. Later he farmed several years in Danville and was engaged in the lumber business in that town about sixteen years. He came to St. Johnsbury in 1886 and there served on the police force. He located in East St. Johnsbury in 1893, and has been in general trade there until the present time and since 1897 has been postmaster. Captain Fisher is an excellent type of the Vermont veteran citizen, an exemplary man of life in every relation, He is a Republican and in religious belief a Congregationalist. He affiliates with Chamberlain post, G. A. R. 
 

Source:  Successful Vermonters, William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical Publishing Company, 1904, page 98-99.

Prepared by Tom Dunn, August  2005