Birth: April 4, 1857; Rowan County, N.C.
Death: March 10, 1936; Lynchburg, Va.

Parents:
Peter Alexander Fisher (1824-1860)
Elizabeth Camilla Brown Fisher Shuping Ritchie (1833-1872)

Siblings:
John David Alexander Fisher (1853-1927)
Michael George Monroe Fisher (1855-1942)
James Henry Cornelius Fisher (1859-1933)

Spouse: Mary Caroline (Horner) Fisher
Marriage: August 28, 1886 in Gettysburg, Pa.

Children: Pauline Tyrone, Homer Charles.

Education: North Carolina College, Gettysburg College, A.B. and A.M. 1882; Gettysburg Seminary, 1885.

License/Ordination: Licensed 1884 and ordained 1885 by Maryland Synod.

Calls: In Maryland and Nebraska, 1885-89. Transferred to North Carolina Synod, 1890. With the Reverend J. D. Shirey, Holy Trinity, Mt. Pleasant, 1890-92; Luther’s, Rowan County, 1903; supplied six months, Mt. Zion, Richfield, 1904; Holy Trinity-Mt. Gilead, Mt. Pleasant, 1923-25; again supplied, Holy Trinity, Mt. Pleasant, 1926. While in educational work and after retiring In 1926 at Lynchburg, Va., his pastoral service was chiefly on supply basis. Other: Professor (Latin, Greek), North Carolina College, 1889-92. Principal, Mont Amoena Seminary, 1892-97. Vice President, Elizabeth College, Charlotte, 1897-1904.

Burial: Spring Hill Cemetery
Lynchburg, Lynchburg City, Virginia, USA

Source: Lutheran Church in America North Carolina. “Life Sketches of Lutheran Ministers : North Carolina and Tennessee Synods, 1773-1965,” 1966. http://divinityarchive.com/.

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From Our Church Paper (New Market, VA), Vol. 24, No. 26, July 1, 1896, p. 2.

HE DECLINES.—Rev. V. R. Stickley passed through the city last Thursday morning from Mt. Pleasant, where he had gone to consider a call to become the successor to Rev. C. L. T. Fisher in the principalship of Mont Amoena Female Seminary. He reports to as that he has decided to decline the call.

This will be a source of joy to the Enochville charge, and we congratulate them on the decision of their pastor who sought only the greatest service in the Master’s cause in his consideration of a change. Prof. Fisher will, we hope, continue his successful efforts at Mont Amoena till it will become necessary for him to withdraw for bis new field.—Standard, Concord, N. C.

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From Our Church Paper (New Market, VA), Vol. 32, No. 9, March 1, 1904, p. 2.

Rev. C. L. T. Fisher Resigns

Rev. C. L. T. Fisher, Vice-President of Elizabeth College, has resigned his position, says the Observer, on account of the failing condition of his health, his resignation to take effect at once. He has been Vice-President of this institution since it was founded six years ago, and before that was for several years the most successful principal of Mont Amoena Seminary at Mt. Pleasant. The Observer says of him:

“The friends of the college as well as the personal friends of Mr. Fisher will regret to learn that his health is such that it becomes necessary for him to retire from the active work. Mr. Fisher has made no definite plans for the future, and will probably spend several weeks recuperating before he again takes up a work. Although he is not positive as to what he will do, it is very probable that he will be engaged in the educational work of his church, the Lutheran, to which he has devoted the past 15 years of his life.”

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The Cleveland Star (Shelby, NC), 23 Jun 1926, p. 6.

Realty Man Varied In His Professions

Mr. C. L. T. Fisher, district manager here for Chimney Rock Mountains, Inc., has an interesting history. He has done many things in his life, before he finally selected real estate for his calling, and his choice of Shelby as a location came after he had investigated nearly all the towns in the state, his decision being based on the fact that he found this city to be the best located and most favorable for his work.

Thirty years ago, he was principal of the Mont Amoena seminary for girls, at Mt. Pleasant. Then he became one of the founders of Elizabeth college for young women in Charlotte, where he was vice-president and professor of Greek. After seven years spent there, he went into the insurance game with the Mutual Benefit Co., of Newark, N. J., and when the war broke out, he “did his bit” in Washington. Then he located in New York City for four years, and finally returned to his first love, the position with the seminary mentioned above. After three years spent there, he came to Shelby as the local representative of the mountain development.

Mr. Fisher has supreme faith in the future of Chimney Rock. He says that with a working force of 1500 men, headed by a corps of 75 engineers, and a daily payroll of $18,000, results are an assured fact. His plans are to remain here for several years, and he is as strong for Shelby as he is for his own Chimney Rock.

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Unidentified newspaper clipping

Fisher Opens Office In Lobby Of Hotel
Mr. C. L. T. Fisher, who recently came to Shelby to open local sales offices of the Chimney Rock Mountains, Inc., has announced that his office will be in the lobby of the Central Hotel. Mr. Fisher at first considered entering the general realty business, but after looking over Chimney rock itself for several days has decided that he will specialize on the big development there.

Miss olive Lentz, of Statesville, is connected with the office as secretary to Mr. Fisher. The latter was for sometime head of the Mt. Pleasant preparatory school and is also an experienced sales manager.

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Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N. C.), 11 Mar 1936, p.4.

PROF. C. L. T. FISHER
Concord, March 10 – Relatives in this county were advised this morning of the death last night at his home in Lynchburg, Va., of Prof. C. L. T. Fisher, well known educator. He had been ill for the past year and gave up active work several years ago.

Funeral service will be held in Lynchburg Wednesday afternoon.

Prof. Fisher was amember of the faculty of Mont Amoena Seminary at Mount Pleasant for many years and later served on the faculty of Elizabeth College, at Charlotte, for 10 years.

Surviving relatives include his wife, one son, Horner Fisher, an attorney of Florida, and one daughter, Miss Paulina Fisher, dean of girls at the Lynchburg high school.

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The Jacob Fisher Family, 1727-1958, by James Luther Fisher, Hilbert A. Fisher, and Arthur W. Fisher (Charlotte, NC:1958), p. 134.

II-7 REV. CHARLES LEE THORNTON FISHER, b. Apr. 4, 1857, d. Mch. 10, 1936, m. Sept. 28, 1886, Mary Caroline Horner, b. July 31, 1862, d. July 18, 1952. Children: II-8: Pauline Tyrone—Horner Charles Henry.

Charles Lee Thornton Fisher was born in Rowan County, North Carolina, April 4, 1857, third son of Peter Alexander and Camilla Brown Fisher. He was educated at North Carolina College, a graduate of Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, class of 1882, and from the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Gettysburg 1885. On September 28, 1886, he married Mary Caroline Horner of Gettysburg, daughter of Newton McKee and Caroline Waybright Horner, born July 31, 1862, educated at Miss McClelland’s School in Gettysburg and Maryland College, Lutherville, Maryland.

Mr. Fisher held his first pastorate at Union Bridge, Maryland. He and Mrs. Fisher went as home missionaries to Sidney, Nebraska, returning in 1889 to Mt. Pleasant to teach Latin and Greek at North Carolina College. Their two children, Pauline and Horner, were born in Mt. Pleasant. He became principal of Mt. Amoena Seminary in 1891 and was co organizer of Elizabeth College in Charlotte and served as its vice-president, 1896-1904.

The family moved to Cape Charles, Virginia, Lynchburg, Virginia, and Washington, D. C. where Mr. Fisher did promotional work until he returned to Mt. Pleasant as pastor of Holy Trinity Church in 1923 and assisted his brother at Mt. Amoena Seminary. In 1927 he retired and he and Mrs. Fisher made their home in Lynchburg. Here he died March 10, 1936. Mrs. Fisher died July 18, 1952, thirteen days before her ninetieth birthday. They were members of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina.