Fisher Joel Ellis

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Joel Ellis Fisher (1891- 1966)
J. E. Fisher died suddenly on January 6 while en route by car to a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Melville Shoe Company. He was in his seventy-fifth year. Born in New York City, Fisher graduated from Yale with honours in 1911, the youngest man in his class, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma XI. During World War I he was a naval lieutenant on the U.S.S. lsabel. For many years he was president of the North-western Terminal Railroad in Denver, secretary and director of the Melville Shoe Company, treasurer and vestryman of the Church of the Heavenly Rest, president of the Samaritan Home for the Aged, director of the Babson Gravity Research Foundation and the Washington Institute for Biophysical Research.
He was elected to the Alpine Club in 1913, and was President of the American Alpine Club 1935- 37, having joined in 1921. He was also a member of the Swiss, French and Italian Alpine Clubs, and an honorary member of the Yale, Harvard and Colorado Mountaineering Clubs. His climbing in the Alps began in 1906 and, in a span of fifty-seven years, included over 150 major ascents. He had done the Matterhorn six times, the last in 1950. He had also climbed in Mexico and Canada. For many years he privately sponsored research on glaciers and gravitation. He attended the A. C. Centenary in 1957 and was present at the Matterhorn dinner at the Monte Rosa Hotel on July I3 of last year, during that week ascending the Riffelhorn.
He is survived by his widow, Eleanor Darlington Fisher, a sister, a son, a daughter and three grandchildren.
J. Monroe Thorington.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 71, 1966, Seite 190


Geboren am:
1891
Gestorben am:
06.01.1966