John Fiske

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Historian and Philosopher John Fiske adopted his mother’s maiden name, which was Fisk without the “e.” When the Connecticut Legislature approved the name change, they erroneously spelled it Fiske, so John Fisk became John Fiske.

His father died when John was 10. His mother then married Edwin Wallace Stoughton, Minister to Russia. John was a precocious child, learning several languages by his early teens. He was obsessed with learning.

He wrote many books on early American history, and he became one of the world’s foremost philosophers. Charles Darwin had rocked the religious world with his “Origin of the Species,” but John Fiske was soon to follow with the philosophy that God and evolution were compatible. His ideas were eagerly embraced, and soon he was lecturing throughout the world. He was a friend of Charles Darwin and Aldous Huxley.

Fiske died on July 4, 1901 in Massachusetts. On the famous John Muir Trail, near Yosemite National Park, are several mountains named after great thinkers. One of those mountains is named Mt. Fiske, named for John Fiske. http://www.fisk-fiskefamilyassociation.com/thefamous.html

John Fiske was born Edmund Fiske Green at Hartford, Connecticut, March 30, 1842. He was the only child of Edmund Brewster Green, of Smyrna, Delaware, and Mary Fiske Bound, of Middletown, Connecticut. His father was editor of newspapers in Hartford, New York City, and Panama, where he died in 1852, and his widow married Edwin W. Stoughton, of New York, in 1855.[1] On the second marriage of his mother, Edmund Fiske Green assumed the name of his maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske.

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