22 Facts About Wilbur Fisk

Willbur Wilbur Fisk was a prominent American Methodist minister, educator and theologian.

Isaiah Wilbur Fisk, was from Massachusetts and descended from William Wilbur Fisk who emigrated to America from England in about 1637.

Wilbur Fisk was a presidential elector in the 1816 presidential election.

Willbur Wilbur Fisk was raised in Lyndon, and at age 16 he was admitted to the Peacham Academy in Vermont where he completed a course of instruction in two years.

Wilbur Fisk then transferred to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1814 and graduated in 1815.

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Wilbur Fisk was not known as a particularly devoted student while in college, but after a year or so decided that a career in law was at odds with his Christian character.

Wilbur Fisk left the legal profession behind and moved to Baltimore where he was engaged as a tutor.

Wilbur Fisk was plagued by respiratory problems throughout his life, and ill health in Baltimore caused him to move back home to Lyndon to recuperate.

Wilbur Fisk's mother, Hannah, had forsaken her New England Calvinist roots to become a Methodist, and her home was a center of Methodist activity in northern Vermont.

Wilbur Fisk only served as a minister for three years in Vermont and Massachusetts before becoming interested in furthering educational opportunities in New England.

Wilbur Fisk accepted that position and remained as its first president from its opening in 1831 until his death in 1839.

In 1835, Wilbur Fisk suffered another relapse in his battle with what appears to have been some sort of chronic respiratory disease.

Wilbur Fisk's physician advised him to take a sea voyage to try to regain his health.

Wilbur Fisk's health did improve and after he returned to Middletown in 1836, he resumed his duties as president of the university.

Wilbur Fisk was a colonizationist who favored sending America's slaves to Africa.

Wilbur Fisk opposed the abolitionists within the church who sought to deny membership to any slaveholder or any supporter of slavery.

Wilbur Fisk endorsed what he believed was a truly Christian, non-violent way of solving this social evil.

Wilbur Fisk was instrumental in securing funds for a translation of the Bible into the Mohawk language in 1831 .

Wilbur Fisk expressed concern for Ruth's continuing welfare on his deathbed.

Wilbur Fisk's lived in indigency in a small house on Foss Hill, near Foss House, .

Wilbur Fisk's lived with her parents in Middletown and then with her mother and grandmother, Lydia Peck, after her father's death in 1839.

Wilbur Fisk's is mentioned in Prentice's biography as living with them in Middletown.