An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, page 419

	D.H. FISK, an attorney of Cheney, Washington, was born in Pennsylvania, June
27, 1851, a son of F.W. and Mary W. (Webb) Fisk, natives also of that State. The
father was a lumberman by occupation. D.H. Fisk was educated in the public
schools of New York and Pennsylvania, and in 1871 entered the Canton Collegate,
Northfleld, Minnesota, where he graduated in the classical course in 1876. In
that year he located in Red Wing, Minnesota, next lived in Wisconsin, and in
1880 returned to Ada, Norman county, Minnesota. While there he entered the law
office of Frank Chapman, and was admitted to the bar in 1881. In 1888 Mr. Fisk
located in Cheney, Washington, where he has since been engaged in the active
practice of law, and also followed milling two years. Politically, he takes an
active part in the work of the Republican party, having served as County
Attorney one term in Norman county, Minnesota, and as City Attorney of Cheney
three years. He was the organizer of the company which supplies the electric
light plant of this city, and has always been one of the prime movers in all of
the enterprises of Cheney. 
	Socially, he is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of
Pythias. Mr. Fisk was married in February, 1878, to Miss Ada Ashelman, a native
of Pennsylvania. To this union have been born four children, namely: Charles F.,
aged twelve years, attending the public school; Alta O., aged ten years, and
Hervey D., nine years, are students of the Normal School; and Clara E., aged
four years. Mr. Fisk is one of the most enterprising citizens of the prosperous
city of Cheney, is an able jurist, and a gentleman of many attainments.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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