1886 - 1946 Composer of "[I had wandered afar from the Father above]" in World Wide Revival Songs No. 2 Born: March 10, 1886, New Berne, North Carolina.
Died: February 6, 1946, Dallas, Texas.
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas.
Fisher attended Fort Worth University and Polytechnic College, Fort Worth, Texas; Vanderbilt University; Southern Methodist University; and earned his Doctor of Divinity degree at Asbury College, Kentucky. He moved to Fort Worth in 1908, and for a decade served as a general evangelist for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In World War I, he was a military chaplain. After the war, he worked in the East Oklahoma Conference and (beginning in 1944), the North Texas Conference. His works include:
Best Revival Songs (Nashville, Tennessee: The Cokesbury Press, 1924) (music editor)
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Albert C. Fisher