Famous People with Name Fiske

Daniel Willard Fiske            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Daniel Willard Fiske: was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York.Fiske studied at Cazenovia Seminary and started his collegiate studies at Hamilton College in 1847. He joined the Psi Upsilon but was suspended for a student prank at the end of his sophomore year. He was educated at Copenhagen and at Uppsala University. Upon his return to the United States, he acted as a General Secretary to the American Geographical Society and edited the Syracuse Daily Journal.

George Fiske            Origin/Culture/Country: American

George Fiske: was an American landscape photographer.Fiske was born in Amherst, New Hampshire and moved west with his brother to San Francisco. He apprenticed with Charles L. Weed and worked with Carleton E. Watkins, both early Yosemite photographers. Fiske and his wif

Griggs, Robert Fiske            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Griggs, Robert Fiske: Robert Griggs is remembered above all for his discovery of the "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" in 1916, and his subsequent book and other writings on the phenomenon. The volcano Katmai in southcentral Alaska blew itself apart in 1912--the largest such eru