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 2l6 FISKE. FISKE. Andover, on the iSth of August, 1847, he was ordained pastor of the Belleville Con- gregational church at Newburyport — then Newbury — where he still resides. Mr. Fiske was first married in Boston, November 7, 1849, to Eliza Pomroy, daugh- ter of George D. and Mary (Pomroy) Dut- ton. Two children were born to them : Mary Fidelia, wife of Rev. C. A. Savage ; and George Dutton, who died October 13, 187 1. On the 14th of February, 1S67, Mr. Fiske was again married in Newton, to Mrs. Caroline Walworth Drummond, daughter of George and Philura (Jones) Walworth. Since 1861 Mr. Fiske has been a. mem- ber of the board of trustees of the Andover Theological Seminary, and of Phillips Academy, and since 1885 has been presi- dent of the board. He is a corporate member of the A. B. C. F. M. In 1862 he received the degree of D. D. from Amherst College. After his pastorate of forty years in the Belleville church, he offered his resignation ; but, at the request of the church and parish, he still retains the pas- toral relation, with the assistance of a colleague, on whom the pulpit and pastoral work chiefly devolves. Only once during his long term of labor has he been absent for any length of time. This was in 186S and '69, when he spent nine months abroad, visiting England, Scotland, Wales, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Pales- tine, Turkey and Greece. FISKE, JOHN, son of Edmund Brewster and Mary Fiske (Bound) Green, was born in Hartford, Conn., March 30, 1842, and lived at Middletown, Conn., from 1843 to '60. His name was originally Edmund Fiske Green, but in 1855 he took the name of his maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske. His early education in the lower schools was supplemented by a preparation for college at Bett's Academy, Stamford, Conn., and at Henry M. Colton's school at Middletown, Conn., and in Cambridge with Andrew T. Bates (Harv. 1859). He entered the sophomore class of Harvard University, and was graduated A. B. in 1863. The degree of IT. B. was con- ferred in 1865, and A. M. 111 1866. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1864, and began practice in the office of I>. P. Kimball, in Boston, in 1865. His literary tastes were always upper- most, and he began writing for magazines in 1 861. Before the close of 1865 he abandoned the practice of law for that of authorship, and is still engaged in the call- ing for which he is so well fitted. The trend of his mind is toward history, and he stands to-day a leader in the ranks of historians, as well as a prominent educator in the same line. Prof. Fiske was university lecturer on philosophy, Harvard, 186910 '71; instructor in history, Harvard, 1870 ; assistant libra- rian, Harvard, 1S72 to '79 ; overseer of Harvard, 1879 to '85, and re-elected in 1885. He is professor of American history, Washington University, having been ap- JOHN FISKE. pointed to that chair in 1S85. He is, or has been, a member of the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences, American Ori- ental Society, British Folk-lore Society, American Antiquarian Society and the California Historical Society. From 1S76 to 'Si he was president of the Boylston Club. Prof. Fiske was married in Appleton chapel, Cambridge, September 6, 1864, to Abby Morgan Brooks, of Petersham. Of this union are six children : Maud, Harold Brooks, Clarence Stoughton, Ralph Brown- ing, Ethel, and Herbert Huxley Fiske. As an historian, Prof. Fiske combines accuracy of research with philosophic breadth of view. As associate editor of " Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Bi- ography," he has contributed scores of