Fiske, Nathan, Dd

Fiske, Nathan, D.D.

a Congregational minister, was born at Weston, Massachusetts, September 9, 1733. He graduated from Harvard College in 1754; became pastor May 28, 1758, in the Third Precinct, Brookfield, and died there, November 25, 1799. He had a genius for progressive improvement. His preaching was practical, and yet abounded in the beauties of literary composition. Besides several sermons, two volumes of his essays, entitled The Moral Monitor, are among his published works. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1:571.