Title: Clinton Bowen Fisk Letter

Date/Date Range :   1884 October 13

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of a single letter from Clinton Bowen Fisk to Major A. J. Harding, October 13, 1884. The letter seems to answer an inquiry about an insurance company with which Fisk had some experience.

Call number: MS-2325

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

The Special Collections Library purchased this collection in June 2002.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Clinton Bowen Fisk Letter, MS-2325. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

Clinton Bowen Fisk was born in New York in 1828, but spent his youth in Michigan. In 1862, he joined the U.S. Army, eventually rising to the rank of General. Although it was Lincoln who proposed Fisk's appointment to the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, it was Johnson who officially appointed him to oversee the Bureau in Kentucky and Tennessee.

As part of his struggle to help African Americans gain rights, he assisted in the establishment of free schools for both white and African American children in the South. Fisk University in Nashville is also named after him.

After the Civil War, he got into business, named the chief financial officer of Southwest Pacific Railway. As a result, he relocated to New York City, eventually forming the firm of Clinton B. Fisk & Co., bankers and brokers. He died in 1890.

This collection consists of a single letter from Clinton Bowen Fisk to Major A. J. Harding, October 13, 1884. The letter seems to answer an inquiry about an insurance company with which Fisk had some experience.

• Fisk, Clinton Bowen, 1828-1890.
• Insurance -- United States.