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Fiske, John

naval officer, was born April 10, 1744, in Salem, Mass. He was master mariner during the revolutionary war, and fought in many conflicts. After the war he engaged in commerce; was made major-general of militia in 1792; and acquired fame and fortune. He died Sept. 28, 1797, in Salem, Mass.

Fiske, Nathan

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 9, 1733, in Weston, Mass.

He was a congregational clergyman of Brookfield, Mass., who was a prolific author of essays and addresses. Beside separate sermons, his published works include Sermons; and The Moral Monitor, a collection of essays once very popular as a school reader. He died Nov. 24, 1799, in Brookfield, Mass.

Fiske, Nathan Welby

educator, clergyman, author, was born April 17, 1798, in Weston, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, and professor at Amherst college in 1824-47. He was the author of Manual of Classical Literature; Sermons; Young Peter's Tour Around the World; and Story of Aleck, or the History of Pitcairn's Island. He died May 27, 1847, in Jerusalem, Palestine.

Fiske, Oliver

soldier, physician, author, was born Sept. 2, 1762. He served in the army during the revolutionary war.

He began practice in Worcester, Mass., in 1790, and in 1803 was appointed special justice of the court of common pleas. He died in 1836 in Boston, Mass.

Fitch, Asa

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1811 to 1813.

Fitch, Asa

naturalist, agriculturist, author, was born Feb. 24, 1809, in Salem, N. Y. He was made New York state entomologist in 1854, and for many years published annual reports on insects injurious to vegetation. He died April 8, 1878, in Salem, Mass.

Fitch, Ashbel Parmelee

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 8, 1848, in Mooers, N. Y.

He was admitted to the bar in November, 1869, and has since practiced his profession in New York city. He was elected to the fiftieth, fiftyfirst, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses. In 1893 Mr.

Fitch resigned his seat in congress, and was elected comptroller of the city of New York, serving in that capacity for four years.

Fitch, Benjamin

merchant, philanthropist, was born June 13, 1802, in New York. In 1866 he founded the Fitch home in Darien, Conn., for soldiers' orphans.

He added a public hall and an art gallery, and also built a church in Darien. In 1881 he founded the Fitch institute, which was organized on the plan of the Cooper institute of New York city. He died Nov. 7, 1883, in New York city.

Fitch, Charles Elliott

journalist, was born Dec. 3, 1835, in Syracuse, N.

Y. In 1865 he became editor of The Syracuse Daily Standard; and in 1873 of The Daily Democrat and Chronicle. 1890 he was appointed United States collector of internal revenue; has been a voluminous writer on many subjects; and is the author of numerous pamphlets.

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Fitch, Ebenezer

educator, was born Sept. 26, 1756, in Norwich, Conn. In 1791 he became principal of Williamstown academy, and when this became Williams college, in June, 1793, he was elected its first president, an office which he held until 1815, when he resigned to become pastor of the presbyterian church in West Bloomfield, N. Y. He died March 21, 1833, in Bloomfield, N. Y.

Fitch, Eleazar Thompson

educator, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 1, 1791, in New Haven, Conn. For many years he was professor of divinity at Yale. He wrote theological reviews and other articles for periodicals, and a volume of his sermons was published in 1871. He died Jan. 31, 1871, in New Haven, Conn.