Miers Fisher

Miers Fisher (June 21, 1748 – March 12, 1819) was a lawyer, legislator, philanthropist, and merchant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was imprisoned and exiled during the Revolutionary War because of his Quaker beliefs, and after the war served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Family Miers was born in Philadelphia, the third son of Joshua Fisher, the Quaker merchant and mapmaker. He grew up in Philadelphia (110 S. Front St.) and his family had a country home on the Schuylkill River called "The Cliffs", which is now the site of Sedgley Woods in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Miers married Sarah Redwood on February 17, 1774, daughter of William Redwood and Hannah Holmes. They had 16 children, of which five lived past the age of 30. In 1808, their son Miers Fisher, Jr. (1786–1813), a traveler, was witness to early uprisings in the so-called Peninsular War in Spain, and to Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. In 1795, Fisher purchased an estate near Fox Chase in Philadelphia County, which he called "Ury".