Clinton Bowen Fisk (1828 - 1890)

Born 8 Dec 1828 in Greigsville, Livingston, New York, United States

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Died 9 Jul 1890 at age 61 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

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Clinton Fisk was a Union General in the United States Civil War. After the War, he was assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Kentucky in Tennessee. He endowed the Fisk School. (Now Fisk University)

Clinton was born in 1828. He was the son of Benjamin Fisk and Lydia Aldrich. In 1850, he married Jeannette Crippen. He was a banker whose bank was ruined in the Panic of 1857. In the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 33d Missouri regiment in the National Army, was promoted to brigadier-general in 1862, and brevetted major-general of volunteers in 1865.

After the War, he was appointed to the Freedman’s Bureau where he served as an assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands for Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1866, he opened a school for freedmen in an abandoned army barracks in Nashville, Tennessee. A year later the institution was chartered as Fisk University. He endowed the school with $30,000.

He relocated to New York and he was appointed to the Board of Indian Commissioners. He served as president of the board from 1881 until 1890. He later served as a trustee of Dickinson College. He is also a trustee of Drew Theological Seminary, and of Albion College, Michigan. He served as a trustee of the American Missionary Association. As a Methodist, he worked toward a reunion of the northern and southern branches of the church.

In 1888, he ran for President of the United States on a Prohibition Party ticket, gaining 250,000 votes. He died on July 9, 1890. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Dickinson College Archives https://archives.dickinson.edu/people/clinton-bowen-fisk-1828-1890

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 27 December 2021, 19:04), entry for Clinton Bowen Fisk (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:MP6Q-1Q8 ); contributed by various users.
• "Michigan Marriages, 1822-1995", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCKR-P5B : 17 January 2020), Clinton B. Fisk, 1850.
• Passport Application (1870) United States
• Fact: Residence (1870) St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
• Passport Application (1877) United States
• Fact: Residence (1880) Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States
• Obituary (1890) , New York, United States
• Burial (1890) Oak Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Branch, Michigan, United States
• Obituary (09 Jul 1890) Watertown, New York
• Obituary (10 Jul 1890) Springfield, Illinois
• Obituary (10 Jul 1890) Boston, Massachusetts
• http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch From "Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600 - 1889, Vol II":

See also:

• Wikipedia: Clinton B. Fisk
• Wikidata: Item Q5134068, en:Wikipedia