History of Whitefield, (Coos County) New Hampshire United States of America

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The Biography of Amos Kidder Fiske

Amos Kidder Fiske, author, was born at Whitefield, N.H., May 12, 1842; son of Henry and Lucinda (Keyes) Fiske; grandson of Asa Fisk, originally of Templeton, Mass., and a descendant of Simon Flake, lord of the manor of Standhaugh, Suffolk, England, in the time of Henry IV. He was graduated from Harvard in 1866 and received the degree of A.M. in 1869. He was admitted to the bar in New York in 1868, and entered the office of George Ticknor Curtis, whom he assisted in the preparation of his "Life of Daniel Webster," at the same time becoming a contributor to the Annual Cyclop?dia. He took up journalism in 1869, and after two years' experience on the New York Times, became an assistant editor of the Evening Mail and afterward leading writer on the Boston Globe. In 1878 he returned to the New York Times and was a member of the editorial staff until 1897. He is the author of: Midnight Talks at the Club (1890); Beyond the Bourn (1891); The Jewish Scriptures (1896); The Myths of Israel (1897); The Story of the Philippines (1898); The West Indies (1899); and other works.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor