CLASS OF 1877

Frank Henry Fisk was born in Dublin, N. H., May 28, 1857, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 19, 1917. His father, Asa Fisk, was a farmer, and his mother was Priscilla Ranstead.

He took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Phi Zeta Mu fraternity (now Sigma Chi). He left college in the fall of junior year, and went to Elgin, Ill., where he became deputy city engineer and at the same time studied law. He was engaged in these two pursuits until the spring of 1878 in various places. He then became a teacher, and was principal of the public schools in succession at Glenville, Minn., New Richland, Minn., Leßoy, Minn., and Forest City, lowa. For a time he was manager for the sale of the publications of Dodd, Mead and Company in Minnesota.

Later he removed to Albert Lea, Minn., which became his home for the rest of his life. Here he followed the occupation of surveyor and hydraulic engineer, and was county surveyor of Freeborn county from 1896 to 1913. He was an expert on ditching, tiling, and dredging, as well as other forms of drainage and sewerage systems, being county drainage engineer and also assistant engineer of the state highway commission, one of his greatest feats being the draining of Rice Lake.

The latter part of Mr. Fisk's life was a series of misfortunes, the culmination of which was his reception as a patient into the Minnesota State Hospital for the Insane, at Rochester, October 16, 1915. He had been for many years an enthusiastic member of the order of Elks, and. an officer of that order came to Rochester to take him to an Elks' home in Virginia. On their way he was taken ill, and was taken off the train in Cincinnati, where tie died in a few days.

In 1880 Mr. Fisk was married to Mary E., daughter of Henry and Martha (Parks) Thurston of Glenville, Minn., who died December 6, 1912. They had no children.