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Clinton Bowen Fisk (1828-1890). The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922

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Clinton Bowen Fisk (1828-1890). The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922 Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Bibliographic Record Hugh Chisholm, et al., eds.  The Reader’s Biographical Encyclopædia.  1922.
17,000 Articles from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th & 12th eds. Clinton Bowen Fisk (1828–1890) American soldier and educator, born in Greigsville, NY, on the 8th of December 1828. In 1830 he was taken to Michigan, where his father founded the town of Clinton. He was educated at Albion and Ann Arbor and afterward settled in business at Coldwater, MI, and St. Louis, MO. He entered the army in 1861, rose rapidly to the rank of brevet major-general, and was commander of the Missouri district. After the war he was a commissioner of the Freedman’s Bureau, and founder of Fisk University at Nashville, TN, for colored men and women, with which he remained as president until his death. From 1874 until his death he was president of the Indian Commission. He was prominently connected with many educational and religious institutions. In 1888 he was the candidate of the Prohibition party for President of the United States. He died in New York on the 9th of July 1890. © 2022 WEHD.com

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