American librarian, book collector, and chess player
Willard FiskeFiske playing chess, c. 1900
Daniel Willard Fiske (November 11, 1831 – September 17, 1904) was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York. He was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership in 1895.[1]
^Frost, John. “The Library Conference of ’53.” The Journal of Library History (1966–1972) 2, no. 2 (1967): 154–60.
Daniel WillardFiske (November 11, 1831 – September 17, 1904) was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York...
wished. She was married when she was 39 to professor and librarian WillardFiske, but lived less than two years following the wedding ceremony. McGraw...
actor Roger Fiske (1910–1987), English musicologist, broadcaster and author WillardFiske (1831–1904), American librarian and writer Lars Fiske (born 1966)...
The Book of the First American Chess Congress, published by Daniel WillardFiske in 1857. The account, "The Automaton Chess-Player in America", was written...
1943 – September 26, 2002) Hiram Cox G. H. Diggle David Vincent Hooper WillardFiske Professor Duncan Forbes Jeremy Gaige Ann Gunter Tim Harding (chess player)...
Cornell is interred in Sage Chapel on Cornell's campus along with Daniel WillardFiske and Jennie McGraw. Cornell was originally laid to rest in Ithaca City...
August 1923. The first American Chess Congress, organized by Daniel WillardFiske and held in New York, October 6 to November 10, 1857, was won by Paul...
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:...
immigration and use of Greek as the vernacular. One prominent writer, WillardFiske, even suggests (in The Book of the First American Chess Congress, 1859)...
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...
memory of Jennie McGraw. In her will, she left $300,000 to her husband WillardFiske, $550,000 to her brother Joseph and his children, $200,000 to Cornell...
McGraw, benefactor and trustee: 48 Cornell Librarian WillardFiske and his wife Jennie McGraw Fiske: 48 Alonzo B. Cornell, Governor of New York and eldest...
in 1838. The main source of information on Schlumberger's life is WillardFiske's book of the first American chess congress and, in particular, the section...
Written in 1843, by William Taylor. The Story of the Psi Upsilon, by WillardFiske. The Psi Upsilon Epitome, by Albert P. Jacobs ... and a Directory of...
librarian WillardFiske. The university took Sage's view, leading to years of litigation, but eventually, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Fiske. On October...
a lecture tour and traveled in Europe with his close friend, Daniel WillardFiske, librarian at Cornell. After three years as a widower, in 1890, White...
Joseph Willard (December 29, 1738 – September 25, 1804) was an American Congregational clergyman and academic. He was president of Harvard from 1781 until...
initially was a collection of 18,000 volumes stored in Morrill Hall. Daniel WillardFiske, Cornell's first librarian, and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University's...
volume with the title, Chess in Iceland and Icelandic Literature by WillardFiske, published in 1905 by the Florentine Typographical Society, Florence...
University) Samih Farsoun - influential Arab Studies scholar Daniel WillardFiske (did not graduate) - archivist, chess writer (co-author of Paul Morphy)...
H. Vincent 1898 Founder, Chautauqua Institution No Awards 1896–1897 WillardFiske, Daniel Coit Gilman, Edwin H. Grant, S. Hastings Grant, Reuben Aldridge...
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