Frederick Samuel Fish (8[1] February 1852 – 13 August 1936), born in Newark, was an American lawyer, politician[2] and automotive manufacturing executive.
He attended Newark Academy and entered the University of Rochester, graduating with a B.A.
He then studied law, was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1876, and practised in Newark and in New York City from 1876 to 1890.
In 1895, he was talking about his ideas for a practical horseless carriage and, in 1897, the firm had an engineer working on a motor vehicle.
[5]: p.66 He can therefore be identified as the first person to initiate production of motor vehicles at the world's largest maker of wagons and carriages at the end of the nineteenth century.