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    Daniel Willard Fiske (November 11, 1831 – September 17, 1904) was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York...
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    wished. She was married when she was 39 to professor and librarian Willard Fiske, but lived less than two years following the wedding ceremony. McGraw...
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  • actor Roger Fiske (1910–1987), English musicologist, broadcaster and author Willard Fiske (1831–1904), American librarian and writer Lars Fiske (born 1966)...
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    The Book of the First American Chess Congress, published by Daniel Willard Fiske in 1857. The account, "The Automaton Chess-Player in America", was written...
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    learning this in the 1870s, American scholar and keen chess player Willard Fiske took an interest in Grímsey, sending supplies, supporting the economy...
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  • 1943 – September 26, 2002) Hiram Cox G. H. Diggle David Vincent Hooper Willard Fiske Professor Duncan Forbes Jeremy Gaige Ann Gunter Tim Harding (chess player)...
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    Cornell is interred in Sage Chapel on Cornell's campus along with Daniel Willard Fiske and Jennie McGraw. Cornell was originally laid to rest in Ithaca City...
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    the history of English chess clubs in and before Morphy's time. Fiske, Daniel Willard (1859). The Book of the First American Chess Congress. New York:...
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    Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist...
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    Connecticut. Retrieved February 5, 2010. Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889). "Willard Simon, Settler". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography...
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    Chess Hall of Fame along with GM James Tarjan and the late Daniel Willard Fiske. He is also a recipient of the US Chess Federation's Frank J. Marshall...
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    immigration and use of Greek as the vernacular. One prominent writer, Willard Fiske, even suggests (in The Book of the First American Chess Congress, 1859)...
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  • August 1923. The first American Chess Congress, organized by Daniel Willard Fiske and held in New York, October 6 to November 10, 1857, was won by Paul...
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  • in 1838. The main source of information on Schlumberger's life is Willard Fiske's book of the first American chess congress and, in particular, the section...
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    memory of Jennie McGraw. In her will, she left $300,000 to her husband Willard Fiske, $550,000 to her brother Joseph and his children, $200,000 to Cornell...
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    McGraw, benefactor and trustee: 48  Cornell Librarian Willard Fiske and his wife Jennie McGraw Fiske: 48  Alonzo B. Cornell, Governor of New York and eldest...
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  • Written in 1843, by William Taylor. The Story of the Psi Upsilon, by Willard Fiske. The Psi Upsilon Epitome, by Albert P. Jacobs ... and a Directory of...
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    a lecture tour and traveled in Europe with his close friend, Daniel Willard Fiske, librarian at Cornell. After three years as a widower, in 1890, White...
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    States. Edited by professional diplomat and linguistics professor Daniel Willard Fiske, it was co-edited for a time by Paul Morphy. The magazine was based...
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  • Monthly, founded in January 1857 by Willard Fiske, who had helped organize the First American Chess Congress. Fiske edited American Chess Monthly from...
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    initially was a collection of 18,000 volumes stored in Morrill Hall. Daniel Willard Fiske, Cornell's first librarian, and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University's...
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    Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11, 1872 – April 22, 1946) was an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
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    librarian Willard Fiske. The university took Sage's view, leading to years of litigation, but eventually, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Fiske. On October...
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    after marrying University Librarian Daniel Willard Fiske. She bequeathed $1 million to build a library, but Fiske sued to break the will, sparking what became...
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    Fiesole would become the home of the American Icelandic scholar Daniel Willard Fiske, who renamed it the 'Villa Landor'. Landor's grandson was the writer...
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  • Joseph Willard (December 29, 1738 – September 25, 1804) was an American Congregational clergyman and academic. He was president of Harvard from 1781 until...
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    Persian-language course taught by Willard Fiske. The course mustered six students. It met in the evening in Fiske's study. With AY 1874–75, Cornell sought...
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  • merchant | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 10 March 2022. Willard Fiske (1903). Mímir: Icelandic Institutions, with Addresses. M. Truelsen....
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  • a wide range of sources, including Edward Falkener, Stewart Culin, Willard Fiske, H. J. R. Murray, John Scarne, and many others; as well as his own research...
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    Sinquefield 2020 66 James Sherwin 2021 67 Frank Brady 2021 68 Daniel Willard Fiske 2022 69 James Tarjan 2022 70 John Watson 2022 71 Yury Shulman 2023 72...
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