Wilbur Fisk, an American clergyman and educator, born at Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 31, 1792, died at Middletown, Conn., Feb. 22, 1838. He was educated at the grammar school in Peacham, Vt., at the university of Vermont, and at Brown university, where he graduated in 1815. He then began the study of law, but in 1818 entered the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1823 he was presiding elder of the Vermont district. The following year he left the itinerant work to devote himself to the cause of Christian education. At the date of his entering the ministry there was not a single literary institution of importance under the auspices of the Methodist church in America. In connection with others he founded the academy of Wilbraham, Mass., of which he became principal in 1826. In 1828 he was elected bishop of the Canada conference. The following year he was chosen at nearly the same time president of La Grange college, Alabama, and a professor in the university of Alabama. TheWesleyan university, Middle-town, Conn., was founded in 1830, and Dr. Fisk, having declined all other appointments, was elected its first president. In the general conference of 1832 he was foremost in advocating the establishment of the Oregon mission.

On account of impaired health, he made the tour of Europe in 1835-6. During his absence he was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, but declined the office, to continue that work in which he had become the representative man of his church. His chief works are: Sermons and Lectures on Uni-versalism,"Reply to Pierpont on the Atonement," The Calvinistic Controversy," and "Travels in Europe." His life has been written by the Rev. Joseph Holdich (1842).