| Item Call Number |
FP00138 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
FP00138 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - FP00138
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Frederick Charles Fisher
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| General Note |
- General note - General Otis''s Spanish interpreter. Fisher came to the Philippines in June 1898 and participated in the Manila campaign. He became a successful lawyer in the Philippines; author of a book in Spanish on the forms of pleading in civil cases, and of a short treatise on "The Elements of Code Pleading". He came to the Philippines in June 1898, having enlisted in Battery K of the third Artillery, and participated in the Manila campaign. Then he was detailed as an interpreter to Otis and served in this capacity even after his discharge from the Army in 1899. Later he bvecame private secretaryto military governor Arthur MacArthur. Because of his qualification as a proficient translator and interpreter in Spanish , he was appointed clerk of court when the Supreme Court was organized under the American regime. He resumed his law studies (abandoned in the early 1890''s) and passed the bar examionation reportedly with a very high rating of 99% plus. He resigned from the Supreme Court in 1904 to join the law firm of Felipe del Pan and Francisco Ortigas, Sr., although he continued serving as a reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court for over a year. Although born in Plymouth, England , Fisher grew up and received his education in California when his parents emigrated when he was 10 years old. He went to Mexico after his studies , stayed there for 3 years and learned Spanish. In 1892, he returned to San Diego, california, to take up law but quit soon afterwards due to failing eyesight. In 1900, he married Therese Russell, daughter of the American Consul, Jonathan Russell during the the late Spanish regime.
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Rene Yriarte Collection
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - Circa 1906
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Americans
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1898
- Focus term - 1906
- Focus term - interpreter
- Focus term - lawyer
- Focus term - manila campaign
- Focus term - otis
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