The New International Encyclopædia/Fisk, Fidelia

FISK, Fidelia (1816-64). An American missionary. She was born in Shelbourne, Mass.; graduated from Mount Holyoke, went to Persia as a missionary of the American Board among the Nestorians in 1843, and later became first principal of the seminary for women at Oroomiah. She wrote Recollections of Mary Lyon (1866). Consult D. T. Fiske, A Memoir of Fidelia Fisk; Faith Working by Love (Boston, 1869).