The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fisk, Pliny

FISK, Pliny, American Congregational missionary: b. Shelburne, Mass., 1792; d. 1825. He was graduated at Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1814 and four years later at Andover Seminary. He was appointed agent of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions. He was sent to Palestine in 1819 and the year of his death joined the mission at Beirut, Syria. He left in manuscript an English-Arabic dictionary which was published some years after his death. Consult Bond, ‘Life of Pliny Fisk’ (Boston 1828).