Francis N. Fisk

Francis N. Fisk

• Francis N. Fisk was born in June 1780 in Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
• He married Mary Walker.
• Francis N. Fisk became a widower at the 25 February 1847 death of his wife Mary Walker.
• The following appeared on 4 March 1847 in the New Hampshire Patriot & State Gazette: [Died] In this town, Feb. 25, in the 61st year of her age, Mrs. Mary Fisk, wife of Hon. Francis N. Fisk. Mrs. Fisk was the only surviving daughter of Rev. Timothy Walker, the first minister of this town. With a charitable disposition, kind feelings, and liberal views as a christina, a mother and a friend, she was highly esteemed, and her loss will be severely felt. In a large circle of devoted friends, her death has occasioned a void which cannot be filled, and by them her many virtues will be long remembered.--Com.
• Francis N. Fisk died on 7 October 1870 at age 90.
• The following appeared on 13 October 1870 in The Farmers' Cabinet: We regret to be called upon to announce the decease of Hon. Francis N. Fisk, of Concord, which event occurred at noon on Friday, the 7th inst. The Boston Journal gives the following obituary:
  :TAB: Hon. Francis N. Fisk, was born in Amherst, in June, 1780. His father, Hon. William Fisk, and his grandfather, emigrated from Wenham, Mass. to Amherst in 1774, when that section was almost a winderness. In early life the subject of this sketch was a teacher in Thomaston, Me. In 1853, having accumulated a good property, he retired from active business and passed the remainder of his life pleasantly in the city, with those interests he had been so long and honorably identified. As a merchant and as a citiz[en he was a gentleman of the highest integrity, while his character was without a stain.
       The deceased was given many public positions of responsibility. For some thirteen years he was President of the Merrimack County Bank, and for about the same time he was President of the New Hampshire Savings Bank. He took an active interest in the welfare of Concord, and he was often a town officer, and several years was a Representative in the Legislature. Prominently connected with the Democratic party, he was highly respected by his political associates.--He was a member of the the Executive Council in 1827 and 1829, under Governor Pierce, and in 1830, under Governor Harvey. For nearly half a century he had been a consistent member of the Old North Church at Concord, and was also connected with New Hampshire Historical Society and with various religious and benevolent organizations. The public spirit, generosity and courtesy of Mr. Fisk made him a most reespected citizen, and whose death is a public loss.--The wife of the deceased died some years ago.--She was a daughter of the late Judge Walker of Concord. Mr. Fisk left one son, a merchant in Concord, and two married daughters. Three brothers of the deceased are now, or were recently living. They are Allen Fisk of Chicago, a graduate of Dartmouth College of the class of 1814; one in Maine, who, if alive, must be ninety-four years old, one at Amherst. The longevity of the Fisk family is remarkable. Prior to 1867, six of the family have died, the oldest of whom was 87, and the youngest 60. In his manners and appearance the deceased was a most agreeable gentleman of the old school, and his prominence in public made him a connecting link with the past, and whose extended and useful life covered a long period of the history of the town and State.

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