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 KISHE K. FISKE. 21 I chusetts Total Abstinence Society, and in the Washingtonian Home in Boston. The anti-slavery cause he also warmly espoused while a student in 1831, and was foremost in the movement in Amherst College in 1833, firing the first anti-slavery gun in that institution. A year later he was appointed a delegate to the first anni- versary of the American Anti-Slavery Society at New York, making at the MILTON M. FISHER time an extended tour to Philadelphia and through Maryland and Virginia by private carriage, investigating the subject and distributing anti-slavery literature. In 1840 he assisted in organizing the old Liberty party. He was one of the original Free Soilers at Worcester in 1848, and (with the exception of Hon. E. R. Hoar) is the only surviving member of the com- mittee on the platform of the party. He was delegate from Norfolk county, with Hon. Charles Francis Adams, to the Buffalo Free Soil convention in August of the same year He has been a deacon in the village church forty-nine years, and has always been identified with true religious pro- gress and Christian work. He is presi- dent of the Medway Savings Bank, and of the Dean Library Association. He is also connected officially with the Sanford Woolen Mills and Sanford Hall. A prom- inent man in his community, he has always been a generous reformer, and has made his influence for good felt in many ways. FISK, GEORGE C, son of Thomas T. and Emily (Hildreth) Fisk, was born March 4, 183 1, in Hinsdale, Cheshire Co., N. H., His early education was received at the public schools of his native town. After remaining there until 185 1, he went to Springfield, Mass., where he accepted a position as book-keeper for T. W. Wason, car-builder, at a salary of one dollar a day. In 1854 he became a member of the firm of T. W. Wason & Co., car-builders, and at the organization of the Wason Manu- facturing Company, in 1863, was elected treasurer. In 1869 he was made vice- president of the company, and became its president in 187 1, which office he holds at the present time, after thirty-six years of continuous connection with the business. On the 7th of June, 1852, Mr. Fisk was married in Hartford, Conn., to Maria E., daughter of Daniel H. and Martha J. Ripley. Their children are : Charles A. and Isabel R. Fisk. Mr. Fisk is one of the signal examples now and then furnished in America, and especially here in New England, of a boy, whose only educational facilities were the district schools and the gossip of the coun- try store, lifting himself to the highest positions of financial trust and importance. Few have ever started with less to depend upon in their surroundings, and few can point with greater pride to the dignity which they have attained. At present Mr. Fisk is president of the Wason Manufacturing Company, president of the Springfield Steam Power Company, president of the Fisk Manufacturing Com- pany, and proprietor of the Brightwood Paper Mills, at Hinsdale, N. H. FISKE, DANIEL TAGGART, son of Eben- ezer and Hannah (Tirrill) Fiske, was born in Shelburne, Franklin county, March 29, 1819. After receiving the education of the district school, he prepared for college at Fellenberg Academy, Greenfield, and at a select school at Heath, together with home study, and entered Amherst College in 1838, graduating in 1S42. He was principal of Amherst Academy for a year after leaving college. In the fall of 1843 he entered the Andover Theo- logical Seminary, and graduated in 1846. After devoting another year to study at