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FISK, WILBUR (1792-1839) , American educationist, was born in Brattleboro, Vermont
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Hampshire , to Wilbraham, Massachusetts, Fisk became one of its agents and trustees, and in 1826 its principal. He drafted the report of the committee on education to the general conference in 1828, at which time he declined the bishopric of the Canada conference. He was first president of Wesleyan University from the opening of the university in 1831 until his death on the 22nd of February 1839 in Middle-town, Connecticut. His successful administration of the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham and of Wesleyan University were remark-able. He was an able controversialist, and in the interests of Arminianism attacked both New England Calvinism and Unitarianism; he published in 1837 The Calvinistic Controversy. He also wrote Travels on the Continent of Europe (1838).See Le and Writings of Wilbur Fisk (New York
Series ; also a sketch in Memoirs of Teachers and Educators (Nevg York
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