Charles T. Fisher

Charles Thomas Fisher (1880 to 1963) was an American businessman and automotive pioneer born in Norwalk, Ohio. He followed his brother Fred to Detroit, worked at the C. R. Wilson Company, which built horse-drawn carriage bodies and was starting on automobile bodies, and on 23 July 1908 co-founded the Fisher Body Company with Fred and their uncle Albert. The firm brought in the five younger brothers, expanded to Walkerville, Ontario, and by 1914 was the largest maker of auto bodies in the world. General Motors bought sixty percent in 1919 and the rest in 1926, when Fisher Body became a GM division and Charles was made a GM Vice-President. He bred and raced Thoroughbreds at Dixiana Farm and was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1995.