Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1890-07-17

GEN. FISK DEAD.
DHES IN NEW YORK CITY JULY
9TH.
The Great Pr0hibitiOntst Dies at
the age Of Sixty-One. HIS
Public Career.

'0enerdl Clinton B. FISK OleQ at dis
residence, No. 175 West 5Sth street, at
10 30 a. m., July 9th, in the 62d year
of his age. The funeral services will
be held at the Madison Avenue Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, on Friday. the
18th inst, at o'clock. The burial
will be at his old home, Cold Water,
Mich, the 18th. When everybody had
the grippe last spring, General Fisk
was one of the worse sufferers, but he
took care of himself, and was cured,
apparently, although the effects of the
disease clung to him, and it was that
which caused his DEATH"
GENERAL FIsK's CAREER.
Clinton Bowen Fisk was born on
December 8, 1928, at the village of
Griggsville, Livingston County, N. Y.
His parents were of the Puritan stock,
who had emigrated from New England
to the Genesee Valley. His father,
Captain Benjamin Fisk, was black
smith and wagon-maker. Clinton was
his fifth son, and when the child was
less than 2 years old, the family emf
grated to Michigan, settling in the
wilderness county Of Lewanee, where
two years later Captain Fisk died,
leaving his widow to face the world
with six boys to rear.
Clinton, when 9, was bound out to
Deacon Wright and worked on his
farm for several years. He picked up
his education by indomitable effort.
He got his first book of Latin lessons
by training coon to do tricks and
selling him to circus. When he was
Is his mother married William Smith,
q well-to-do farmer. His step-father
liked him, and the lad was preparing
to enter Wesleyan Seminary at Albion,
when Mr.. Smith died. The twice-wid-
owed mother removed to Albion, and
Clinton began his studies, but before
he was graduated his eye-sight failed
him, and he had to give up all hope of
taking college course.
He procured employment in the
store of L. D. Crippen, the leading
merchant and banker of that region,
eventually married his daughter, and
was taken into the firm. The panic
of 1857 crippled their business, and,
from overwork and worry, Fisk's
health broke down, and he retired
from business After some months
rest, in 1858 he went to st. Louis as
an agent of an insurance company.
Early in the war he became colonel
of the 32d Missouri Infantry in the
Union army. He was promoted to
brigadier general in 1862; was breveted
major general of Volunteers in 1865,
and after the end of the war be was as
sistant commissioner under General
Howard, in the management of the
Freedmen's Bureau in Kentucky and
Tennessee. In 1874 he was appointed
by President Grant to the position of
President of the Board of Indian Com
missioners, the duties of which he dis
charged with ability and credit.
General Fisk resigned from the army
in the Fall Of 1896, and since then has
been busily occupied with railroad,
banking and ecclesiastical business
For eight years he was treasurer of the
Missouri and Pacific Railroad. Since
1879 he has resided in New jersey, with
his headquarters in New York.
General Fisk has always been an
NArnPSt fQmnQrQna0 10 in
the cause led him to abandon the Re-
publican party, with the leading men
with whom he had long been on terms
of intimacy and friendship. and gave
his support to Gov. st. John, of Kan
sas, the Prohibition candidate for the
Presidency. In 1886, he was made the
prohibition candidate for Governor Of
New Jersey, and polied IS, $40 votes, the
Democratic candidate being elected by
a plurality of about 5000. The Prohi-
bition National Convention, which met
at Indianapolis, in June, 1888, nom
mated Gen. Fisk for the Presidency,
and he made vigorous campaign. His
vote In the country at large was 246,-
876, as compared with 150, ,369, cast for
st. John in 1884
Gen. Fisk was also active in educa.
tienal and religious circles. He aided
largely In establishing Fisk University,
an institution for the education of col
ored youths. at Nashville, Tenn, and
it was named for him. He took an ac-
tive part in it's management and was
President of the Board of Trustees.
He was also a trustee of Dickinson
College, of Carlisle, Pa; of Drew Theo-
logical and Pennington Seminaries,
New Jersey: and of Albion College, of
Michigan. He was member Of the
American Missionary Association, and
also a member of the Book Committee
OF the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and he has done Methodism conspic-
uous service in his work toward
reunion of the Northern and Southern
branches of the Church. He was a lay
delegate to the last general conference
OF the Methodist Church. Gen. Fisk
was an attractive speaker end was es-
pecially effective on the stump. He