Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-02-23
WIDOW OF COL. JAMES FISK DEAD
Succumbed to Attack Of Pneumonia In
South Boston Sunday-Burlal Took
Place In Brattleboro Beside Husband.

Mrs. Lucy d. (Moore) Fisk, 76. widow
of Col. James Fisk, jr., of Brattleboro,
who at the time of his ASA ssination in
New York in 1872 was one of the con-
spicuous financers in this country, died
in ler home in South Boston Sunday af-
ternoon. few months ago Mrs. Fisk
suffered shock, and subsequently a
second shock, which left her in a serious
condition, although she recovered her
faculties. She was stricken with pneu-
monia few days before her death. Tne
body was brought to Brattleboro Tues
day and funeral services were held in
the home of her husbands sister, Mrs.
George w. Hooker, Wednesday after
noon at go o'clock. Rev IL. Q. s. Os-
good, pastor of the Unitarian church, Of
iciated and the burial took place beside
the body of Col. Fisk in the Fisk family
lot in Prospect Hill cemetery. Mr. and
Mrs. James Fisk Hooker of Schenectady.
n. Y, came to attend the funeral
Many beautiful floral tributes bore silent
testimony of regard for a woman of
keen intellect upright character, SYM
pathetic nature and great personal
charm.
In her early life Mrs Fisk lived in
Springfield, Mass. Miss Frances Gore of
Bratteboro daughter of the late John
Gore, who invited steam carriage
which he operated about the country,
attended boarding school in SPRING
field and there met Miss Lucy ID. Moore
Accepting an invitation from Miss Gore
Miss Moore came to Brattleboro to be
her guest and through her visit formed
an acquaintance with Mr. Fisk which
resulted in their marriage, which took
place in Ashfield, Mass. He was 10 years
old and she was 81. Miss Gore became
| the wife of the late Charles Lemuel
Whitney of Ticonderoga, n. Y, for
merly of Brattleboro. Mr. and Mrs.
| TfcIy 70 Il.nt t1a1Nn fn 1.-Two in q
old Revere House, which Mr.. Fisk's ia
| Their built and owned and which stood at
| the corner of Main and Elliot streets
| where the Peoples National bank now
| stands. Mr.. Fisk was engaged in selling
| goods on the road with teams. After
few years they went to Boston and Mr.
| Fisk became a partner in the firm of
| Jordan, Marsh & Co., subsequently en-
| gagng in business in Boston for him
| self and later going to New York, where
| he became a railroad and steamship
| owner and amassed a fortune, being as
ISOLATED with Jay Gould and other fl
nanciers, although a very young man.
Col Fisk died Jan. I, 1872, as the re-
suit of a pistol shot fired the day before
in the Grand Central hotel by Edward
| s. Stokes. Among the property holdings
| bequeathed to his wife was his interest,
valued at $75OO0O, in the Grand Opera
| house in New York city. Because of
| threatened litigation ana against tue al
vice of her friends and relatives in
| Brattleboro and elsewhere Mrs. Fisk
was induced to give up her claim to her
| husbands share in the opera house in
exchange for stocks that turned out to
| be of little VALUE. For some time after
| her husbands death Mrs Fisk lived in
New York and Hatfield. Mass. later
moving to South Boston, where she had
| lived about % years, except for an
occasional summer at the beach. In re-
cent years her home had been with Mr..
| and Mrs. Fred +. Bowker. She had
means of sustenance and although hei
income was slight compared with what
it ought to have been the newspaper re-
ports of her living in Indulgence and
want, published from time to time, have
been wholly untrue. She was contenteG
in her home and sought to make life
happy and agreeable for those around
| her Formerly she visited in BrattleborC
frequently but her last visit here was
as a guest of Mrs. Hooker and husband
the late Col. George w. Hooker, about
IA years ago.