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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (FISHER FISK.) 



little known, and the publication of that part of his 

 will bequeathing more than $2,000,000 to various 

 charitable and educational institutions, and directing 

 that a further sura, estimated at $8,000,000, be placed 

 in the hands of three executors for distribution among 

 public institutions according to private instructions, 

 excited wide attention. His specific bequests were : 

 $25,000 to the Presbyterian Hospital, $25,000 to St. 

 Luke's Hospital, $25,000 to the Manhattan Eye and 

 Ear Infirmary, $10,000 to the Woman's Hospital, 

 $10,000 to Mount Sinai Hospital, all in New York 

 city ; total, $95,000 ; $200,000 to Yale College and 

 $100.000 to its Scientific School, $200,000 to Colum- 

 bia College, $200,000 to Cornell University, $100,000 

 to Bowdoin College, $100,000 to Amherst College, 

 $100,000 to Williams College, $100,000 to Dart- 

 mouth College, $100,000 to Wesleyan University, 

 $100,000 to Rochester University, $100,000 to Ham- 

 ilton College, $100,000 to tht, University of Virginia, 

 $100,000 to Lincoln University, $100,000, to Hamp- 

 ton University, $100,000 to Maryville College, and 

 $50,000 each to the Union Theological Seminarv 

 and Lafayette, Marietta, Adelbert, Wabash, and Park 

 Colleges; total, $2,100,000; total of specific public 

 bequests, $2,195,000. In January, 1891, Mrs. Fayer- 

 weather began proceedings in opposition to the pro- 

 bating of the will, on the ground that, while she did 

 not object to the public bequests, she was unwilling 

 that the executors should receive $3,000,000. On 

 March 9 the suit was withdrawn, on an agreement by 

 the residuary legatees to divide the residuary estate 

 between Yale, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, and the 

 Women's and Presbyterian Hospitals in New York. 



Fisher, Elizabeth Jefferson, actress, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., in 1810 died in New York city, Nov. 18, 

 1890. She was a daughter of Joseph Jefferson, son of 

 Thomas Jefferson, an English actor contemporary with 

 David Garrick, and made her first appearance in Phila- 

 delphia, as Rosina in the " Spanish Barber," in 1827. 

 In 1834 she first appeared in New York city as Ophe- 

 lia, and later she supported Sheridan Kuowles, and 

 was the first actress in the United States to assume the 

 parts of Julia in u The Hunchback " and Constance in 

 " The Love Chase." She became a favorite support 

 of Forrest, who pronounced her the best Lady Mac- 

 beth he ever saw, and was the original Pauline Des- 

 chappelles in America. She succeeded her brother, 

 father of the present Joseph Jefferson, as manager in 

 Mobile, Ala., in 1842. She first married Samuel 

 Chapman, in 1835 Augustus Richardson, and in 1849 

 Charles J. B. Fisher. She was popular as Marianne 

 in " The Wife," Gertrude in " Loan of a Lover," 

 Eliza in "The Dumb Belle," and Gabrielle in " Tom 

 Noddy's Secret." 



Fisher, Horatio Gates, merchant, born in Huntingdon, 

 Pa.. April 21, 1838; died in Punxatawney, Jefferson 

 County, Pa., May 8, 1890. He was graduated at 

 Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., in 1855 ; was a mem- 

 ber of the Common Council of Huntingdon in 1862- 

 '65 ; county auditor in 1865-' 68, burgess in 1874-'77 ; 

 and was elected a State Senator in 1876. In 1878 he 

 was elected to Congress from the 18th Pennsylvania 

 District, being the first Republican Congressman ever 

 elected in that district, and was re-elected in 1880. 

 He served as chairman of the standing Committee on 

 Coinage, Weights, and Measures, and as a member ot 

 the select committee on the law respecting the election 

 of President and Vice-President. He had been en- 

 gaged for many years in mining, shipping, aud whole- 

 saling coal, and was identified with other large indus- 

 trial enterprises in his State. 



Fisk, Clinton Bowen, financier, born in Griggsville, 

 Livingston County, N. Y., Dec. 8, 1828; died in 

 New York city, July 9, 1890. The family removed 

 to Lenawee County, Mich., while he was an infant, 

 and when nine years old he was apprenticed to a 

 farmer. On the remarriage of his mother when he 

 was thirteen years old he was enabled to attend Al- 

 bion Seminary ; but while he was preparing to enter 

 Michigan University his eyesight failed him and he 

 abandoned a collegiate education for business. He 



became clerk for a merchant and banker at Coldwa- 

 ter, Mich., and in 1850, after marrying his employer's 

 daughter, was taken into partnership. In 1858 he re- 

 moved to St. Louis, Mo., where ne was appointed 

 Western financial manager for the jEtna Insurance 

 Company, and where he was an organizer of the 

 Union Merchants' Exchange. At the beginning of 

 the civil war he served for three months as a pri- 

 vate in the Missouri Home Guards. In July, 1862, 

 at the request of President Lincoln, he raised the 

 33d Missouri Regiment, of which he was commis- 

 sioned colonel, and went to the front. In September 

 he was ordered to St. Louis to organize a brigade, of 

 which he was appointed brigadier-general Nov. 24, 

 and, returning to the field, he served in the Army of 

 the Tennessee till June, 1863, when he was given 

 command of the military district of Southeastern Mis- 

 souri. In March, 1864, he was assigned to the com- 

 mand of the Department of Northern Missouri, and 

 successfully defended the State capital against at- 

 tacks by the Confederates under Generals Price, Mar- 

 maduke, and Shelby. For this he was voted the 

 thanks of the Missouri House of Representatives and 

 commissioned major-general of State militia. He was 

 brevetted major-general of United States Volunteers 

 May 13, 1865, and tendered his resignation; but, in- 

 stead of being relieved from duty, he was appointed 

 Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau 

 for Kentucky and Tennessee. He held this office till 

 1866, and in the mean time secured the founding of 

 Fisk University, at Nashville, Tenn., for colored 

 youth, of whose board of trustees he was president 

 till his death. After retiring from the Freedmen's. 

 Bureau he engaged in railroad and insurance busi- 

 ness, became a trustee of Drew Theological Seminary 

 and of other institutions of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, and was president of the Indian Commission 

 from 1872 till his death. In 1886 he received 19,500- 

 votes as Prohibition candidate for Governor of New 

 Jersey, and in 1888 251,147 as candidate of that party 

 for President of the United States. 



Fisk, Photius Kavasales, clergyman, bom in the Gre- 

 cian Archipelago about 1807; died in Boston, Mass., 

 Feb. 7, 1890. He was removed in infancy to Smyrna, 

 Asia Minor, where he lost nearly all his* relatives by 

 a pestilence ; spent his early years in gathering figs 

 and working in a fig-curing establishment ; was sent 

 to a Jesuit college in Malta, where the Rev. Photius 

 Fisk, an American missionary, found him and per- 

 suaded him to come to the United States to be edu- 

 cated and, after studying at Amherst College, re- 

 turned to Greece as an agent of the Board of foreign 

 Missions on the ship that conveyed a cargo of provis- 

 ions for the starving Greeks. He landed at Malta in 

 1827, shortly before the memorable battle of Nava- 

 rino, and, seeing no way of aiding his countrymen 

 in their struggle for independence, returned to the 

 United States. In 1828 he was admitted to member- 

 ship in the Congregational Church and began prepar- 

 ing for the ministry. He was graduated at Auburn 

 N. Y.) Theological Seminary, ordained in Halifax, 



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Vt., and preached in various parts of New England 

 till 1840. He then went to AY ashington, D. C.^ had 

 his name changed by act of Congress from Kavasales 

 to that of his first benefactor, Photius Fisk, and was 

 appointed a chaplain in the navy by President Har- 

 rison on the recommendation of John Quincy Adams. 

 He was first assigned to the United States frigate 

 " Columbia," in which he sailed from New York city 

 on a three years' cruise on July 22, 1842. On his re- 

 turn he made a long report on the treatment of ma- 

 rines and sailors in the navy, thus beginning the agi- 

 tation which he promoted in all practical ways 

 that resulted in the prohibition of flogging on men- 

 of-war in 1850. After this he made a three years' 

 cruise on the United States frigate " Raritan," during 

 which he collected a large amount of botanical curios- 

 ities and treasures, afterward"presented to the Gov- 

 ernment conservatory. In 1858 he was ordered to the 

 Boston Navy Yard, 'and while stationed there asso- 

 ciated intimately with the leaders in the anti-slavery 



