Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier

by Kevin D. Murphy

This book examines the life of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), a native of Braintree, Massachusetts, and graduate of Harvard College who moved in his late twenties to Blue Hill, Maine, where he embarked on a multifaceted career as a pioneer minister, farmer, entrepreneur, and artist. Drawing on a vast record of letters, diaries, sermons, drawings, paintings, and buildings, Kevin D. Murphy reconstructs Fisher's story and uses it to explore larger issues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558497439
• ISBN13: 9781558497436
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 9.4"