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Note: Rev. Perrin B. Fisk wa1874 installed Dec 29. He was a son of Dea. Lyman and Mary Spofford Fisk, and born in Waitsfield VT, 4-3-1837. He graduated from Bangor Theological seminary in 1863. He remained until
August 27, 1877. Thirt 39 new members were received during his ministry. ( Springfield Church, VT )
Caledonia
FISK, Perrin Batchelder
Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 138-139
Perrin Batchelder FISK, of Lyndon [Caledonia County, Vermont], was born 30
July 1837 at Waitsfield [Washington County, Vermont], son of Deacon Lyman and
Mary (SPOFFORD) FISK, and from the age of thirteen to twenty-one labored at
his father's trade of coopering. Strongly determined to obtain an education,
at his majority he entered Barre Academy [Washington County]. Having chosen
the ministry as his profession, he took a course in Bangor Theological
Seminary [Penobscot County], Maine, where he graduated in the class of 1863.
In the early part of the war of the rebellion he served as delegate of the
Christian Commission in the Army of the Potomac. The coffee wagon had been
sent to the Christian Commission at City Point [Prince George County],
Virginia, and not being appreciated by those in authority, it had been left
to rust by the wayside. Mr. FISK, finding it, saw it was a good idea and got
permission to try it. It proved a great success and is remembered with
gratitude by many a veteran.
Leaving Dracut [Middlesex County, Massachusetts] in 1865, the subsequent
pastorates of Mr. FISK were in Massachusetts, Vermont, and Minnesota, and for
two years he acted as the field agent of Carleton College, of [Northfield,
Rice County] Minnesota. Ill health in his family demanded removal to a
warmer climate, therefore he served in the home missionary field in Illinois
and Florida for about five years. Returning to Vermont, he supplied [the
pulpit] at Morrisville [Lamoille County] and afterwards removed to Lyndon,
where he now resides and has under his charge the parishes of Lyndon and St.
Johnsbury Centre [both in Caledonia County]. On 25 August 1863 Mr. [Perrin
Batchelder] FISK was united in marriage to Miss Harriet L. [BIGELOW],
daughter of Charles E. and Luana (CARPENTER) BIGELOW. They [Perrin
Batchelder and Harriet L. (BIGELOW) FISK] have four children: Flora F. (Mrs.
G. L. ZIMMERMAN), George Shephard, Fidelia, and Grace Harriet. Mr. FISK was
chaplain of the Vermont Senate in 1869 and 1870, and inaugurated the custom
of daily legislative prayer meetings. He is a poet of more than local
reputation and a few of his compositions have been published in the "Poets
and Poetry of Vermont."
Submitted by Cathy Kubly
Tangerine Historical Trail (orange County FL)
5....Site of Marot Hall
Prior to the Wauchusett House becoming the center of social activities for the town, the hall located here just south of the store hosted most community activities.
On October 18, 1885, Rev. Perrin B. Fisk of Waitsfield, Vermont, preached the village's first sermon here. He was the Home Missionary Societies' appointed minister to the Congregational Church in Mount Dora, and was asked to continue holding services here.
In the beginning, the nearest post office was in Mellonville, 25 miles away. The mail was brought to Tangerine on horseback, until Lewis Marot began his weekly trips there by mule and wagon. Marot served as postmaster from 1879 to 1902.
He was followed by John L. Stewart (1902-13), Mrs. William Layton (1913-19), Clarence H. Estey (1919-33), John W. Jepson (1933-37), and Ward S. Estey, who took over in 1937. In 1946, Estey built a new post office at this site.
Taken from the Bibliography of Vermont: Or, A list of Books and Pamphlets Relating in...
Fisk, Rev. Perrin B. Pastoral Letter of Rev P.B. Fisk, Lyndonville, VT 1870. 8vo, pp.3.
-The Same in 1871 and 1872.
Mr Fisk was born in Waitsfield VT., July 3, 1837; studied at Barre Academy, VT; did not take a college course: was graduated at Bangor Seminary in 1863; preached at West Dracut, MA, 1863-5; at Peacham, VT., 1866-70; Lyndonville VT., 1870-4; at Springfield, VT., 1874-7; and at Lake City Minn., 1878 to the present time (1880). He has also published two sermons in the local paper.
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