E. Burke Fisher

(Born: about 1799 - Died: April 12, 1863)

American lawyer, author and editor. His full name was apparently Edmund Burke Fisher, being named after the famous English political figure and orator. Fisher was the editor of the Literary Examiner and Western Monthly Review, later renamed the Examiner and Hesperian. This publication was printed in Pittsburgh, PA, and ran from May 1839 - February 1840. At one point, Fisher used the pseudonym of “Timothy Jenkins.” Poe mentions Fisher in letters to P. P. Cooke and J. E. Snodgrass (July 12, 1841). He was born in Philadelphia, PA. He married, by the Rev. Samuel Montgomery, Miss Narcissa M’Keehan on Oct. 17, 1839. Marriage records list him as the editor of the Pittsburgh Saturday Evening Vistor. He had been associated with Horace Greeley’s New Yorker, beginning about July 18, 1836. If, as asserted, he began to contribute to journals before he was 15, and clerked at the Saturday Evening Post, he may have been born about 1816 rather than 1799. He contributed to both the Southern Literary Messenger and Snowden’s Ladies Companion. He died in South Bend, IN.