Horatio G. Fisher was born in
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. He attended public and private schools. He was graduated from
Lafayette College in
Easton, Pennsylvania, in July 1855. He engaged in mining, shipping, and the wholesale coal business. He served as a member of the borough council from 1862 to 1865, auditor of
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, from 1865 to 1868, and burgess of the borough of Huntingdon from 1874 to 1876. He was a member of the
Pennsylvania State Senate from 1876 to 1879. Fisher was elected as a Republican to the
Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh Congresses. He served as chairman of the
United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures during the Forty-seventh Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination, and resumed his former business pursuits. He was appointed by
Governor James A. Beaver a member of the board of managers of Huntingdon Reformatory in 1888. He died in
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in 1890. Interment in River View Cemetery in Huntingdon. ==Sources==