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    Daniel Willard Fiske (November 11, 1831 – September 17, 1904) was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York...
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    wished. She was married when she was 39 to professor and librarian Willard Fiske, but lived less than two years following the wedding ceremony. McGraw...
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    The Book of the First American Chess Congress, published by Daniel Willard Fiske in 1857. The account, "The Automaton Chess-Player in America", was written...
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  • actor Roger Fiske (1910–1987), English musicologist, broadcaster and author Willard Fiske (1831–1904), American librarian and writer Lars Fiske (born 1966)...
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    Cornell is interred in Sage Chapel on Cornell's campus along with Daniel Willard Fiske and Jennie McGraw. Cornell was originally laid to rest in Ithaca City...
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  • August 1923. The first American Chess Congress, organized by Daniel Willard Fiske and held in New York, October 6 to November 10, 1857, was won by Paul...
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  • 1943 – September 26, 2002) Hiram Cox G. H. Diggle David Vincent Hooper Willard Fiske Professor Duncan Forbes Jeremy Gaige Ann Gunter Tim Harding (chess player)...
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    the history of English chess clubs in and before Morphy's time. Fiske, Daniel Willard (1859). The Book of the First American Chess Congress. New York:...
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    learning this in the 1870s, American scholar and keen chess player Willard Fiske took an interest in Grímsey, sending supplies, supporting the economy...
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    Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist...
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