Fiester, S. F
educator, poet, was born Jan. 17, 1855, in Williamsport, Pa.
He received his education at the Williamsport high school, and the Iowa State Normal school. At the age of fifteen he entered educational work; was county superintendent for eight years in Waverly, Iowa, and is now a professor in Washington, D. C.
He has traveled in every state of the Union, and across British America; has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press; and his poems have been incorporated in several standard works.