He was named for Pliny Fisk and Levi Parsons, who went out as the first American missionaries to western Asia and spent much time in Syria. These two missionaries were friends of his parents, who also were missionaries. Fisk was born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Asiatic Turkey. He graduated from Yale University in 1852. He spent a year studying Greek at Athens, returning to the United States in 1859.
He married Julia Maria Richards on 24 August 1859 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was U.S. Consul to Greece, based in Piraeus, the port of Athens, 1871-1873. After returning to the United States, he became a professor of Greek, teaching first at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and later at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, before spending his later years at Iowa College (now Grinnell College), 1877-1883.
He died from tuberculosis.
He married Julia Maria Richards on 24 August 1859 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was U.S. Consul to Greece, based in Piraeus, the port of Athens, 1871-1873. After returning to the United States, he became a professor of Greek, teaching first at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and later at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, before spending his later years at Iowa College (now Grinnell College), 1877-1883.
He died from tuberculosis.
He was named for Pliny Fisk and Levi Parsons, who went out as the first American missionaries to western Asia and spent much time in Syria. These two missionaries were friends of his parents, who also were missionaries. Fisk was born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Asiatic Turkey. He graduated from Yale University in 1852. He spent a year studying Greek at Athens, returning to the United States in 1859.
He married Julia Maria Richards on 24 August 1859 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was U.S. Consul to Greece, based in Piraeus, the port of Athens, 1871-1873. After returning to the United States, he became a professor of Greek, teaching first at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and later at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, before spending his later years at Iowa College (now Grinnell College), 1877-1883.
He died from tuberculosis.
He married Julia Maria Richards on 24 August 1859 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was U.S. Consul to Greece, based in Piraeus, the port of Athens, 1871-1873. After returning to the United States, he became a professor of Greek, teaching first at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and later at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, before spending his later years at Iowa College (now Grinnell College), 1877-1883.
He died from tuberculosis.
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Fisk Parsons
Brewer
Born
in Smyrna Turkey
Oct 19, 1832
professor in Iowa College
1877-1888
Died
Jan 25, 1890
in Grinnell
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