John Flavel Fisk, Sr.

Birth Date

1815-12-14

Death Date

1902-02-21

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Genesee County, New York, native. Married to Elizabeth S. Johnson Fisk on October 14, 1842. Father of Charles H. Fisk, Virginia Fisk, Sarah C. Fish, Robert Fisk, Isabella Fisk, John F. Fisk, Jr., and Elizabeth Fisk. Attended common schools in New York and Cary’s Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio. Principal of the Germantown Academy in Mason County, Kentucky. Principal of the Mason Academy in Mason County. Studied law under Frank Hord, James T. Morehead, and James Pryor in Maysville and Covington. Attorney in Covington in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Kenton County from 1857 to 1865. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Attorney in Covington in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 2, p. 240A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 4, p. 702.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 235B.
Greg Perkins, “Fisk, John Flavel,” in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, eds. Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), p. 342.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), 421.

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