. Leslie's history of the greater New York . ontinued It was then dissolved, andMr. Fisk associated his sons with him in business, under the finn name of Harvey Fisk & Sons. Thefather died in 1889. The present members of the firm are Haivey E.,Charles J., Pliny, and Alexander G. Fisk, Theodore H. Banks, andHerbert W. Denny. Mr. Fisks maternal grandfather, A. B. Green,was an active business man, connected with the old Camden andAmboy Railroad. He was a member of the Legislature for two termsduring the war. Charles J. Fisk was educated in Xew York. Hewent into his fathers oflice when
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . ontinued It was then dissolved, andMr. Fisk associated his sons with him in business, under the finn name of Harvey Fisk & Sons. Thefather died in 1889. The present members of the firm are Haivey E.,Charles J., Pliny, and Alexander G. Fisk, Theodore H. Banks, andHerbert W. Denny. Mr. Fisks maternal grandfather, A. B. Green,was an active business man, connected with the old Camden andAmboy Railroad. He was a member of the Legislature for two termsduring the war. Charles J. Fisk was educated in Xew York. Hewent into his fathers oflice when seventeen years of age, and has beenconsecutiA-ely connected with the business since. In 1891 he becamea member of the City Council of Plainfield, N. J., where he was one of the leaders in securing the sewer system for that has been a delegate to different county conventiims, and was alter-nate to the St. Louis Convention, which nominated Major McKinley forPresident. He served as Chairman of the Campaign Committee of. JOEL FISK. 596 HISTORY OF THE GREATER NEW YORK. Uuion ((niiity, Xew Jersey, in 1890. He is a lueinbei of the Lawyers,Kepubliean, and Wool clubs, of New York, and the Union iountyCountry Club, of Plaiulield, N. J. He maiiied, in 1879, MissLillie I\. TJiobey, of Trenton. N. J., dan,i;liter of the late Augustus They have five children—Louisa G., Augustus E., CharlesW., Harvey, and Annie G. The family are members of the CrescentAvenue Presbyterian Church, riainticld, of which cliuich Mr. Fisk isone of the trustees. He was unanimously chosen by his party t\)rthe office of Mayor of Plaiulield, and w-as elected at the last municipalelection. CLAFLIX, HOEACE BEIGHAM, founder of the wholesale dry-goods house of H. B. Claflin & Company, was born in Milford, Mass.,December 18, 1811, and died in Fordham, X. Y., November 14, received an academical educatioji, and became a clerk in hisfathers store in Milford. With his brother a
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