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Show m: nun nrcr. I General Clintou B. risk Died iu New i Yerk This Morning Aged Sixty-two Tears. j HE WAS A SELF-MADE MAN i j Begimrug Life as a Farmer' Help He Ed-j Ed-j nested Himself and Secured His Own Prominence. New Vohk, July !. General Clinton I?. Fisk died this morning in his sixty-second sixty-second year. The Initial will be at Coldwator, Mich., Saturday. HllHiltWIIICAL 1(1 VIKW. !en. Clinton Bovvon Fisk was tho prohibition candidate for I ho presidency of the Tutted States in 18S, and was born at Greggsvillo, Livingston Livings-ton county, tati of Xew York. His father wan a blacksmith. Shortly after the birth ol Clinton II. Fisk the lifth arrival iu tho faintly his parents removed to Michigan, where his father bought out a trader, w hacked away at tho anvil, and managed man-aged to pound out considerable, money, which he invested in western lands. Ho died in the year of IsiM. Clinton H. Fisk was "bound out" to Deacon Wright, a farmer, w bo w as to rear (he lad, and w hen ho bad attained his majority agreed to give hint a horse, saddle and bridle and two hundred dollars dol-lars in money, besides bis school-, ing. Young Clinton was a great reader in fact, his love for books amounted to a passion. When twelve years old ho walked twelve miles to Jackson in order to sell ton traveling circus a pet which ho had taught many (ricks, the money being invested iu "Athnn's Latin Lessons." Ho united with the Methodist church about this time. Ho also succeeded In securing his release from the old deacon, dea-con, to whom hu was hound, and turned bookkeeper for a laundress at tea cents a week. Ho also did odd chores and attended district school, to which ho was obliged to walk three miles morning and night, w inter and summer. sum-mer. Later he attended the Albion seminary, iu Michigan, but w as unable to complete his course. At the age of 21 bo married and settled down al Cold-water, Cold-water, Michigan. He was an ardent abolitionist, mid helped manipulate the "underground railway" of ante-bellum days. In when ' the war broke out, Mr Fisk unlisted as a private in a St. Louis regiment, where he had been in business since 1K5H. One year later he was made brigadier general, and In IHU.'i was lire-vetted lire-vetted mejor general. He served in the army of Tennessee until the fall of Yii'ksburg, and then iu Missouri until the close of tho war. Then he w as ordered or-dered south (o carry out tho provisions of tho Freedmnn's liiiicnu. General Kisk about this time founded tho famous Fisk university Iu Tonne. I see. The general lost nearly nil Id fortune hi tho war, but soon picked up again by investments iu Missouri Mis-souri railroads and real estate. General Fisk was one of the leading laymen in the Methodist Episcopal church. Ho was president of tho board of trustees of Fisk university, for colored col-ored students at Xashville, a trustee of Dickinson college, Pennsylvania, of Drew theological seminary and Pennington Pen-nington seniinarv. New Jersey, and of Aibiou college, Michigan. |