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has served as judge of the district court of the first judicial district of North Dakota. risk, Clinton Bowen, lawyer, soldier, merchant, reformer, statesman, was born Dec. He served through 8, 1838, in York, N.Y. the civil war; was promoted brigadier-general in 1862; and brevetted major-general of volunteers in 1865. He actively aided in establishing the Fisk university of Nashville, Tenn., which was named for him. In 1886 he was the prohibition candidate for the governorship of New Jersey; and in 1888 was prohibition candidate for the presidency of the United States. For sixteen years ne was president of the board of luaian commissioners. He died July 9, 1890, in New York

Rock river conference. He has also pastorates in Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, and in Evanston, 111.

City.

York.

Fisk, Ezra, qlergyman, author, was born on Jan. 10, 1875, in Shelburne, Mass. In 1813-33 he was the pastor of the Presbyterian church in Goshen, N.Y. He was the author of An Oration; and Lecture on

the Inability of Sinners. He died Dec. 5, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pa. Fisk, Fidelia, missionary, author, was born May 1, 1816, in Shelburne, Mass. In 1843 she went to Persia as a missionary among the Nestorians, where she labored fifteen years, much of the time as teacher in a female seminary. She was the first prinShe cipal of the seminary at Oroomiah. was the author of Memorial of Mount Holyoke Seminary; Woman and Her Savior in Persia and Recollections of Mary Lyon. She died Aug. 9, 1864, in Shelburne, Mass. Fisk, Franklin Woodbury, educator, college president, was born Feb. 16, 1820, in Hopkinton, N.H. In 1854 he became professor of rhetoric and English literature, in Beloit college, of Wisconsin. He founded and for forty years was professor and president of the Chicago theological seminary. He died July 4, 1900, in Chicago, 111. Fisk, Herbert Franklin, educator, clergyman, was born Sept. 25, IS40, in Stoughton, Mass. He Avas educated at the Wesleyan academy and at Wesleyan university and has received the degrees of A.B., A.M. and LL.D. In 1853-61 he taught in various schools; in 1863-67 he was a teacher of latin and Greek in Cazenovia seminary; in 186768 in the Wesleyan academy at Wilbraham; and in 1868-73 was principal in the



Genesee Wesleyan seminary of Lima, N.Y. In 1873-1904 he was principal of the academy of the Northwestern university at Evanston, III.; and since 1888 has been proIn fessor of pedagogy in that institution. 1886-78 he was a member of the Oneida episcopal methodist the conference of church; and since 1878 has been a member

of the filled

Fisk, George Mygatta, educator, author, 16, 1864, in Canfield, Ohio. Since 1902 he has been professor of commerce at the university of Illinois. He is the author of Principles of Commerce.

was born July

Fisk, Harvey,

was third wealth.

Harvey

New

financier,

was born April

Haven, Vt.

In 1853-83 he the bank of CommonIn 1885 he organized the firm of Fisk and sons. He died Nov. 8,

26, 1831, in

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1890, in Wailburtha, N.J.

Henry C, soldier, was born in New In 1861 he became first sergeant in the sixty-seventh regiment New York infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. Fisk, James, lawyer, jurist, congressman. United States senator, was born about 1762. In 1805-09 and 1811-15 he was a representative from Vermont to the ninth, tenth, twelfth and thirteenth congresses, when he was appointed one of the judges of the supreme court of Vermont. In 1817-19 he was United States senator. In 1812 he was appointed judge of the territory of Indiana; and in 1817-25 was collector of the port of Alburg. He died Dec. 1, 1844, in Swanton, Vt. Fisk, Jonathan, lawyer, congressman, was bom in Newburgh, N.Y. In 1809-11 and 1813-15 he was a representative from New York to the eleventh and thirteenth congresses and was elected to the fourteenth congress; but resigned to accept the position of United States attorney for the southern district of New York. He died in New York. Fisk, May Isabel, actress, author, was born in New York. She appeared one season in The Triangle at the Manhattan theater of New Y'ork City. She is the author of The Fisk,

Repentant Magdalen; The Talking and other works.

Woman;

Fisk, Pliny, missionary, author, was born After 24, 1792, in Shelburne, jMass. traveling extensively in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, he joined, in 1825, the mission already established at Beirut, Syria. On the day of his death he completed an English and Arabic Dictionary. He died Oct. 23, 1842, in Syria. Fisk, Samuel, soldier, clergyman, author, was born July 23, 1828, in Shelburne, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman; who served as a soldier in the federal army; and was killed at the battle of the Wilderness. He was the author of Mr. Dunn Browne's Experiences in the Army. He died May 22, 1864, in Fredricksburg, Va. Fisk, Wilbur, clergyman, college president, lecturer, author, was born Aug. 31, 1792, in Brattleboro, Vt. He was the first president of Wesleyan university in 1831-39. He was the author of Calvinistic Controversy; Trav-

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