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Fisk (FRANKLIN W an American)

FRANKLIN W., an American educator; born in Hopkinton, Vt., in 1820; was graduated at Yale University in 1849; taught there awhile; then became Professor of Rhetoric in the Seminary of Beloit, Wis. He was called to the Chicago Theological Seminary when that school was founded in 1859. Subsequently he was president of the seminary till 1900 when he resigned. He died in Chicago, Ill., July 4, 1901.

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