Thomas Jefferson Fisher made a profession of his faith in Christ when he was sixteen. He was baptized and joined the Baptist church at David’s Fork, Kentucky. At the age of twenty-two he was ordained, but he quickly found that he didn’t have the gift of pastoral leadership, so he became an evangelist. He traveled extensively, but for the most part he served in Kentucky. Witnesses say that at Fisher’s preaching, whole congregations would take to their feet, grab the seat before them and lean forward to hear the gospel. The Lord blessed his ministry to such an extent that his life was cut short by an assassin’s bullet. But during his thirty-four year ministry it is said that God crowned his labors with at least 12,000 conversions.
Source – “This Day in Baptist History III ” by David Cummins