Fiske Warren
Frederick Fiske Warren (2 July 1862 – 2 February 1938) was a successful paper manufacturer, fine arts doyen, United States tennis champion of 1893, and major supporter of Henry George's single tax system which he helped develop in Harvard, Massachusetts, United States, in the 1930s. Fiske Warren established Georgist single-tax colonies and a social experiment in Andorra to disprove Malthus's population theory.[1]
Early life
Known throughout his life simply as "Fiske Warren," he was the son of
Married life
On 14 May 1891, he married Gretchen Osgood, daughter of Dr. Hamilton and Margaret Cushing (Pearmain) Osgood at Trinity Church in Boston. The Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks performed the ceremony.[6] The Osgoods were a well-known Beacon Hill family that claimed a direct genealogical line to Anne Hutchinson and John Quincy Adams.[7] Their country house in Harvard, Massachusetts, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Notes
- ^ "American Single Taxers Invade Tiny Andorra" (PDF). The New York Times. April 16, 1916. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
- ^ ISBN 0-684-19109-1, pp 36-37.
- ISBN 0-684-19109-1, pp 47-48.
- ^ Green, Martin Burgess (1989). The Mount Vernon Street Warrens : a Boston story, 1860-1910. Charles Scribner's Sons. Retrieved 4 January 2018.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Fiske Warren, 75, A Maker of Paper" (PDF). The New York Times. 2 Feb 1938.
- ^ "The Warren-Osgood Wedding.; Alliance Of Two Well-Known Boston Families" (PDF). The New York Times. 15 May 1891.
- ISBN 0-7195-5681-3, p81.
References
- The Mount Vernon Street Warrens, Martin Green, Simon & Schuster, 1989 ISBN 0-684-19109-1
- Erskine Childers, Jim Ring, John Murray Publishing, 1996 ISBN 0-7195-5681-3
- Warren-Osgood Wedding Announcement from the New York TimesNewspaper
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