1886–1946

Introduction

Born: March 10, 1886, New Berne, North Ca­ro­li­na.

Died: Feb­ru­ary 6/10, 1946, Dal­las, Tex­as.

Buried: Mount Ol­iv­et Ce­me­te­ry, Fort Worth, Tex­as.

Biography

Albert was the son of Seth Fish­er and Lu­cy A. Lamb, and hus­band of Eth­el S. Knight (mar­ried June 25, 1908, Par­ker, Tex­as).

He at­tend­ed Fort Worth Uni­ver­si­ty and Po­ly­tech­nic Col­lege, Fort Worth, Tex­as; Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty, Nash­ville, Ten­ness­ee; South­ern Me­tho­dist Uni­ver­si­ty; and earned his Doc­tor of Di­vi­ni­ty de­gree at As­bu­ry Col­lege (now As­bu­ry Uni­ver­si­ty), Wil­more, Ken­tuc­ky.

He moved to Fort Worth in 1908, and for a de­cade was a ge­ne­ral ev­an­gel­ist for the Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal Church, South. In World War I, he served as a mi­li­ta­ry chap­lain.

After the war, he worked in the East Ok­la­ho­ma Con­fer­ence and (start­ing in 1944), the North Texas Con­fer­ence.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All of My Sins Are Tak­en Away
  2. Always Bear Your Bur­dens with a Smile
  3. As the Light of Day Drives the Night Away
  4. At Cal­va­ry’s Cross Where the Cleans­ing Tide
  5. Grace Suf­fi­cient
  6. Have You Days That Are Dark
  7. He Died for Me
  8. I Will Work for Him
  9. It Is Glo­ry to Talk with Him
  10. Jesus Is Ev­er the Same
  11. Jesus Is My Friend
  12. List to the Sweet and Won­drous Sto­ry
  13. Love Is the Theme
  14. More Pre­cious to Me
  15. Mother, Home and Hea­ven
  16. O Gold­en Day, When Breaks the Light
  17. O How Pre­cious Is the Me­mo­ry of the Songs
  18. Praising My Sav­ior I Go My Way
  19. Precious Me­mo­ries of Mo­ther
  20. Satisfied with Je­sus
  21. Serving Him Day by Day
  22. Since He Came in­to My Heart to Dwell
  23. Sing the Sto­ry Saved By Grace
  24. Singing on the Home­ward Way
  25. Some O’ These Days
  26. Theme Eter­nal, The
  27. There Are Doubt­ers To­day
  28. There’s a Glad New Song
    • Hay un Can­to Ale­gre en Mi Co­ra­zón
  29. We Will Shine for Je­sus
  30. What Made the Lord Lay Aside His Glo­ry?
  31. What Then?
  32. What Will You Do With­out Jesus?
  33. When I Left Old Egypt­land
  34. When My Burden Is Great
  35. Where the Ros­es Bloom For­ev­er
  36. Whitened Fields, The

Music

  1. He’s Our Friend
  2. More Pre­cious to Me
  3. Shining Along the Way
  4. Tell the World Je­sus Saves

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Fish­er (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),