San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-06
PRoHIBITIONIsT CANDIDATE FOR THE
PRESIDENCY.

The prohibitiOnists have put their
strongest man in the field, and have
money and vim to make lively time
in the campaign. Indianapolis is the
meeting place of the convention this
wear, and delegates are numerous
enough to create no little stir in that
enterprising city. General Clinton
B. Fisk, the candidate for the presi-
dency, has been the most prominent
Law delegate at the recent general con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church. His candidature is hailed
with enthusiasm by his friends 1t is
understood that if he had permitted
at least one previous convention. He
was the prohibition candidate for gov
ernor of his state in 1886.
The General was born at York, Liv-
ingston County, New York, in the
year 1928, and is a representative of
the New England Fisks, from which
have been bred men of renown. He
was child when his father removed
to Michigan. In his youth he began
a course of education preparatory TO
the University, but was prevented
completing it by bad health. He
then opened store and was success
sively merchant, miller. and banker,
before leaving Michigan to make his
residence in st. Louis. This was in
1859.
The war was still young when Mr..
Fisk became Colonel of the Thirty
third Missouri Infantry, in the forces
of the Union. Made a Brigadier-G en-
eral in 1862, he was promoted to Bre-
vet Major-General of Volunteers in
1864. After the war he was Assistant
Commissioner under General Howard
in the management of the Freedmen's
Bureau in Kentucky and. Tennessee.
He married Miss Jeanette G. Grip
pen, of Coldwater, Michigan, and has
three children, two sons and a daugh-
ter. Mrs. Fisk was among the early
Florence Nightingales in the war of
the Union. Associated with Mrs. Jes-
sic Benton Fremont she was concerned
at st. Louis, in the organization of
the first society for the relief of the
soldiers. She was in the field with
her husband two years in charge of
hospitals. Being on one occasion en-
gagged in assisting DR.. John HI. Doug
las, recently physician to the late
General Grant, in the care of the
wounded on the battlefield of Shiloh,
her companion had the misfortune to
tear his trousers. almost running them.
He had no others, his baggage having
been stolen. Mrs. Fisk promptly hur-
ried him into tent, got him to throw
the rent garment out to her, mended
it then and there, and quickly re-
stored it to the owner. In few min
utes the victim and his volunteer
tailoress were again busy in the toll of
assisting to remove two thousand
wounded Union and Confederate sol
diers, to the steamer in waiting.
General Fisk is one of the leading
laymen in the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He is President of the Board
ofIITrustees of Fisk University, for col
ored students, at Nashville, trustee
of Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, of
Drew Theological Seminary and Pen
nington Seminary, New Jersey, and of
Albion College, Michigan. His useful
services to religious organizations in
clude the duties of trustee of the
American Missionary Association, and
those of membership in the Book Com
mittee of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. The General is understood
to be a man possessing ample means.
His secular activities are principally
in railroad and insurance interests,
and his place of business in Network
City. He is a friendly and genial man
of portly presence, and excels in pub
lie address.