Fisk, Clinton Bowen, 1828-1890

found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed December 23, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Fisk, Clinton Bowen; prohibitionist, abolitionist, union army officer, commissioner of freedmen's bureau, entrepreneur, presidential candidate; born 08 December 1828 in Livingston County, New York, United States; studied at Albion Seminary, a Methodist school in Michigan; became a financial agent for Aetna Insurance in Saint Louis; began his military career in the Missouri Home Guard (1850s); earned the rank of brigadier general, taking command at Helena, Arkansas; became a brevet major general of volunteers(1865); took the position of senior officer for the Freedmen's Bureau in the region comprising Kentucky, Tennessee, and northern Alabama; gave thirty thousand dollars to help establish an institute in Nashville and the institute was named Fisk University; pursued a career as an investor and executive officer in the burgeoning railroad industry; candidate for governor of New Jersey (1886); died 09 July 1890 in United States)