Samuel Fisher (clergyman)

His father, serving in the Continental Army at Morristown, New Jersey, died of disease just before his birth.

His mother was living at the time with her brother-in-law, Dr. Samuel Ware, in Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Her cousin of the same name was the inspiration for the founding of the first school for the deaf in the United States.

He received a license to preach from the Berkshire Association in 1804 and was ordained as a pastor in Wilton, Connecticut.

He became embroiled in the Old School-New School Controversy that divided the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.