Photius Fisk occupation philanthropist
Photius was back in the United States and contributed largely to anti-slavery monuments.  He contributed to the monument erected by the anti-slavery society for Charles Turner Torrey. William Shreve Bailey was printing two weekly papers supporting General Grant in Nashville, Tennessee in the spring of 1868.  He continued issuing Republican circulars but on November 30, 1875, his printing press was burned.  Photius again contributed a sizeable amount of money for William Shreve Bailey to continue his printing business.  In 1878, Photius erected a monument for Jonathan Walker.  Six thousand people were at the funeral.  The monument became a national shrine for those working towards racial justice.Another Greek American Michael Anagnos was living in Boston, he was the head of the Perkins School for the Blind.  Photius gave the institute a large donation.  In 1881, he donated one hundred twenty-nine volumes of Ancient Greek books to the University of Iowa.  In 1884, Chaplain Fisk donated one thousand dollars to the Paine Memorial Company which owned the Paine Memorial building and was the home of the Boston Investigator.  The condition of the donation was that the money would support lectures in Paine Hall.  He also donated his valuable collection of pictures and artifacts which were collected in Europe and the United States.  The collection at the time was worth thousands of dollars and it was sent to the Paine Memorial Building in Boston.  The building was located at 11 Appleton Street and burned down in 1940.
In the fall of 1886, Chaplain Fisk erected another monument for his abolitionist friend William Shreve Bailey.  Fisk continued his philanthropy until his death.  In the span of twenty-five years from the close of the American Civil War until his death, Photius contributed to dozens of philanthropic organizations and countless individuals.  He contributed to the tuitions of poor students attending: Harvard, Yale, Amherst, and Dartmouth
Colleges.  After his death, his massive fortune was donated to the poor and destitute.  The Colored Woman's Home was listed by name.  The trustees of his will were instructed to disburse the money to the impoverished as they deemed fit.  Lyman F. Hodge published his autobiography in 1891.  He detailed some of the philanthropic contributions of Photius and outlined his life story.
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