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Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] need Methodist churches, Ashburnham and Northampton 1879-1895
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 02:20:02 EST


I found the following info on a Rev. Fisk in the UMC Archives -
Biographical Sketchs You didn't mention any dates and this is the only FISK in the
Archives.
These URL's may help you in your Methodist Church searching:
Methodist Archives and Research Centre: Online Guides
or
Ministerial Genealogical Research Information

Wilbur Fisk (1792-1839) was born in Vermont. He was educated at the
University of Vermont and Brown University, graduating in 1815. Fisk originally
intended to become a lawyer, but answered a call to the Methodist ministry in 1818.
In 1825 he was elected principal of the newly founded Wesleyan Academy at
Wilbraham in Massachusetts. His success in building a thriving institution, led to
his appointment in 1830 as the first president of Wesleyan University in
Middletown, Conn.

As a member of the General Conferences of 1824, 1828 and 1832, Fisk was an
advocate of increased educational facilities. He was also active in the
formation of temperance societies and in promoting missions. His opposition to the
abolition movement was controversial.

In 1828, Fisk was elected Bishop of the Methodist Church in Canada, which
office he declined on account of poor health and a devotion to New England
Methodism. In 1835 he travelled to Europe for the benefit of his health and to study
educational institutions. He attended the British Wesleyan Conference in 1836
before returning to the United States. In his absence, he was elected Bishop
but again declined because of his health.

Fisk died Feb. 22 1839.

Source: Encyclopedia of World Methodism (1974) and Dictionary of American
Biography

Lynne Bissell in Indiana

In a message dated 3/3/06 2:07:45 AM !!!First Boot!!!,
writes:

> I need to find in what church my grandmother might have been baptized. I
> am trying to learn why she was baptized in an Episcopal Church she was 22,
> though her family were quite devout and her father sang in a church choir -
> and whatever else they were, they were not Episcopal.
>
> I see that her sister was married in a Methodist church, specifically by
> Rev. Fisk, and her teenaged brother's funeral was at a Methodist church.
> No word WHAT Methodist church.
>
> What Methodist churches in Ashburnham and Northampton would the family have
> been likely to have attended between 1879 and about 1895?
>
> Yours,
> Dora Smith
> Austin, TX
>
>












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