The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fisk, Fidelia

FISK, Fidelia, American missionary: b. Shelburne, Mass., 1816; d. 1864. She was educated at Mount Holyoke College and from 1843 to 1858 served as a missionary of the American Board with the Nestorians. She was the first principal of the Urumiah Women's Seminary. She published ‘Recollections of Mary Lyon’ (1866). Consult Fisk, D. T., ‘A Memoir of Fidelia Fisk: Faith Working by Love’ (Boston 1869).