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Identifier: historyofworcest05nutt (find matches)
Title: History of Worcester and its people
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Nutt, Charles, 1868-1918
Subjects: Worcester (Mass.) -- History Worcester (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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emetery andthe Home for Aged Females, and secretary of the Old Mens Home. LABAN BOARDMAN FISKE, Founder and president of the Fiske Bill PostingCompany, was born June 23. 1849, in Hooksett, New Hampshire, the son of Allen andMary A. (Parmenter) Fiske, and died in this city, September 4, 1910, in the sixty-sec-ond year of his age. When he was seven years of age his parents removed to Holden, Massachusetts,and he there gained his early educational training in the district schools of that town.Leaving school he came to this city to learn the job printing trade, at which he laterworked in Providence. Subsequently he became interested in the theatrical businessand went on the road for the Van .\mburgh circus known as the (iolden Menagerie.In 1865 Mr. Fiske returned to this city and joined partnership with Nathan Harknessin the bill posting business under the firm name of Harkness & Fiske. Mr. Harknessdied in 1873, and Mr. Fiske continued the business alone, later establishing tlie Fiske
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^cc^a^t Sooarc/tHan .^de AND ITS PEOPLE 737 Bill Posting Company, which business was a success from the beginning, acquiringlarge contracts for outdoor advertising, Mr. Fiske continuing president of this concernuntil his death. In addition to the bill posting business he, during the seasons of 1879-80-81-8J was associated with Robert Reynolds in the management of the WorcesterTheatre. During the following five years Mr. Fiske successfully managed the HarryW. French lectures, which were similar to the Stoddard lectures. Mr. Fiske was one of the well-known business men of this city, in the interests andwelfare of which he was aKvays interested. In political faith he was a Republican, butnever cared for nor sought public office. He was one of the original members of theBoston Lodge of Elks, he and William C. Gale being the only two men from Worcesterwho were cliarter members of the Boston Lodge. He was also a veteran Odd Fellow,having joined Quinsigamond Lodge, of this city, when it was

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