The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . was knighted (1676) byCharles H. He died at Boston March 16, 1679. FISK, Wilbur, clergyman and educator, wasborn in Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 31, 1792. Up to theage of sixteen he had
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . was knighted (1676) byCharles H. He died at Boston March 16, 1679. FISK, Wilbur, clergyman and educator, wasborn in Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 31, 1792. Up to theage of sixteen he had not been at school for morethan two or three years. Then he went to an acad-emy at Peacham, in his native state. He was ad-mitted to the sophomore class in the University ofVermont in July, 1813, but in the spring of 1814 heentered the junior class of Brown university, R. I.,and was graduated from there in 1815. He beganthe study of law, but was licensed as a local preacherin the Methodist Episcopal church at Lyndon, Vt.,March 14, 1818, and joined the New England con-ference on probation in the following June. Hispastoral life was brief, but remarkably Craftsbury, Vt., a revival attendant upon hislabors drew in many of the best citizens as converts,and a new church was built for the rapidly growingsociety. In 1819 he was appointed pastor of thechurch at Charlestown, Mass. On Aug. 10th that year, at a camp-meeting at Wellfleet, on CapeCod, he was the subject of a remarkable religiousexperience. He had just engaged in vocal prayer,and _ was in the very act of asking for holybaptism, when nature sank under the power of unable to stand,, he was supported by miriis-terial brethren. From this period Fisk datedhis experience of what has been styled, perfectlove. In recalling this occurrence he spoke ofthe event, with its impelling spiritual causes, as asupernatural work of grace, leading him into a higherChristian life than he had known, but it
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