| LC control no. | n 80122811 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fisk, Clinton Bowen, 1828-1890 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1828-12-08 |
| Death date | 1890-07-09 |
| Place of birth | Livingston County (N.Y.) |
| Affiliation | Aetna Insurance Company United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Fisk University Albion Seminary (Michigan) Missouri Home Guard |
| Profession or occupation | Businesspeople Generals Politicians Author |
| Found in | His Prof. Painter's Report of the conditions of the Indians, 1888. Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Fisk, Clinton Bowen; prohibitionist, abolitionist, union army officer, commissioner of freedmen's bureau, entrepreneur, presidential candidate; born 08 December 1828 in Livingston County, New York, United States; studied at Albion Seminary, a Methodist school in Michigan; became a financial agent for Aetna Insurance in Saint Louis; began his military career in the Missouri Home Guard (1850s); earned the rank of brigadier general, taking command at Helena, Arkansas; became a brevet major general of volunteers(1865); took the position of senior officer for the Freedmen's Bureau in the region comprising Kentucky, Tennessee, and northern Alabama; gave thirty thousand dollars to help establish an institute in Nashville and the institute was named Fisk University; pursued a career as an investor and executive officer in the burgeoning railroad industry; candidate for governor of New Jersey (1886); died 09 July 1890 in United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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