Fidelia Fisk

Fidelia Fiske (born in Shelburne, Massachusetts, 1 May 1816; died there, 9 August 1864) was an American Congregationalist missionary.

Fidelia Fiske, from a 1909 publication.
Students at Fiske Seminary in Urmia, from a 1909 publication.

Biography

Fiske graduated from Mount Holyoke Seminary in 1839, and subsequently taught there. In 1843 she resigned her post and went to Iran as a missionary among the Nestorians, where she labored fifteen years, much of the time as teacher in a female seminary. In 1858 she returned to the United States with broken health. Her uncle Pliny Fisk was also a noted missionary.

Work

She was the first principal of a seminary at Urumiah. She published Memorial of Mount Holyoke Seminary and Woman and her Saviour in Persia, and at the time of her death was engaged in writing Recollections of Mary Lyon (Boston, 1866).

References
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Fisk, Pliny" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. This work in turn cites a memoir of Fisk, by the Rev. Daniel T. Fiske, D. D., entitled Faith working by Love (1868).
  • "Fisk, Fidelia" . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
  • "Fisk, Fidelia" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
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