Fiske Warren
{{short description|American tennis player, paper manufacturer, and fine arts denizen (1862-1938)}}
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| name = {{nowrap|Frederick Fiske Warren}}
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| caption = Fiske Warren of Beacon Hill, Boston
| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=y|1862|7|3}}
| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=y|1938|2|2|1862|7|3}}
| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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| father = {{nowrap|Samuel Dennis Warren}}
| mother = Susan Cornelia Clarke
| spouse = {{marriage|Gretchen Osgood|14 May 1891}}
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| occupation = {{nowrap|Businessman}}
| relatives = Samuel Dennis Warren II (brother)
Henry Clarke Warren (brother)
Edward Perry Warren (brother)
Cornelia Lyman Warren (sister)
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File:John Singer Sargent - Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel - Google Art Project.jpg, 1903, John Singer Sargent (Museum of Fine Arts (Boston))]]
Frederick Fiske Warren (July 3, 1862 – February 2, 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.{{cite news |title=American Single Taxers Invade Tiny Andorra |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/celebrity-clipping-apr-16-1916-4713041/ |accessdate=2024-10-11 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 16, 1916 |pages=69, [https://newspaperarchive.com/celebrity-clipping-apr-16-1916-4713038/ 70] |via=NewspaperArchive}}
Early life
Known throughout his life simply as "Fiske Warren," he was the son of Samuel Dennis Warren and Susan Cornelia (Clarke) Warren of Beacon Hill, Boston. His father was the owner of the S. D. Warren Paper Co. in Westbrook, Maine. Born in Waltham, Massachusetts on July 3, 1862,{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-obituary-for-warren-fis/134213487/ |title=Fiske Warren, 75, Millionaire, Dead |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=17 |date=1938-02-02 |access-date=2024-10-11 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L1THDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1062 |title=The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass. |volume=II |first=Benjamin W. |last=Dwight |author-link=Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight |publisher=Joel Munsell |place=Albany, New York |page=1062 |date=1871 |access-date=2024-10-11 |via=Google Books}} Fiske was raised in a mansion on 67 Mount Vernon Street"The Mount Vernon Street Warrens" Martin Green, Simon & Schuster, 1989 {{ISBN|0-684-19109-1}}, pp. 36-37. on Beacon Hill in Boston."The Mount Vernon Street Warrens" Martin Green, Simon & Schuster, 1989 {{ISBN|0-684-19109-1}}, pp. 47-48. He had four siblings: Samuel Dennis Warren II (1852–1910), U.S. Attorney; Henry Clarke Warren (1854–1899), scholar of Sanskrit and Pali; Edward Perry Warren (1860–1928), collector of Warren cup and Cornelia Lyman Warren who was a philanthropist.{{cite book|last1=Green|first1=Martin Burgess|title=The Mount Vernon Street Warrens : a Boston story, 1860-1910|date=1989|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|url=https://archive.org/details/mountvernonstre00greegoog|accessdate=4 January 2018}}{{PD-notice}} As part of a philanthropic and well educated family, the Warren brothers and sister all enjoyed tranquil childhoods growing up between the family homes in Boston and Waltham, also known as "Cedar Hill". Fiske Warren was graduated from Harvard College in 1884. He operated the first "electric carriage" seen in Massachusetts in 1891.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/02/02/archives/fiske-warren-75-a-maker-of-paper-bostonian-who-had-founded-a-number.html | newspaper=The New York Times | title=Fiske Warren, 75, A Maker of Paper | date=2 Feb 1938 |page=19 |url-access=subscription}}
Married life
On May 14, 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.{{cite news| url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-times-the-warren-osgood-wed/156958990/ | newspaper=The New York Times | title=The Warren-Osgood Wedding.; Alliance Of Two Well-Known Boston Families | publication-date=15 May 1891 |place=Boston |page=4 |date=1891-05-14 |access-date=2024-10-11 |via=Newspapers.com}} The Osgoods were a well-known Beacon Hill family that claimed a direct genealogical line to Anne Hutchinson and John Quincy Adams.{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EfnZqBP-mEMC&pg=PT70 |chapter=Molly |title=Erskine Childers |first=Jim |last=Ring |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=9780571276844 |page= |date=2011-03-17 |access-date=2024-10-11 |via=Google Books}} Their country house in Harvard, Massachusetts, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Fiske Warren died at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on February 2, 1938.
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Category:American philanthropists
Category:Businesspeople from Boston
Category:Irish-American history
Category:American art collectors
Category:19th-century male tennis players
Category:People from Harvard, Massachusetts