Brigham City Bugler | 1891-07-18 | Page 2 | John Flake

John Flsbe. It Is a curious foot and one not widely wide-ly known of John Piske, the writer, that his real name Is not John Fiske at all, but Edmund Piske Green. He was born in Hartford, Conn., forty-eight forty-eight years ago, the only child of Edmund Ed-mund and Mary Fiske Green. While yet a mere boy bis father died, and three years later Mrs. Green married the Hon. Edwin W. Stoughton, United States minister to Russia. Up to this time the lad bad been known as Edmund Ed-mund Fiske Green, but after this, for I some reason of his own, he dropped his I father's family name, retaining that of : bis mother, Fiske, and adopted lu place of the baptismal "Edmund" the name of his maternal grea tvgran diath er, ''John," and thus lie became John Fiske, a name which he has retained and honored ever since. New York Evening Sun..