SOURCE: Baldwin, Alice M. Review of Jonathan Fisher: Maine Parson. South Atlantic Quarterly 48 (1949): 308-09.

In the following review of Jonathan Fisher: Maine Parson, Baldwin notes her approval of Chase's biography of a distinguished pastor from her hometown of Blue Hill, Maine.

Jonathan Fisher was a pastor of the Congregational Church in the little seacoast village of Bluehill, Maine, from 1796 to 1837 and resident there until his death in 1847. Fortunately his diaries, notebooks, letters, sermons, and church documents, most of which he wrote or copied in a secret code devised by himself while a student at Harvard College, have been preserved, as well as many of his books and paintings. Years of patient deciphering have made possible this notable biography [Jonathan Fisher: Maine Parson], which not only records the life and work of an amazing man, but gives a rarely vivid picture of the way of life and thought in...