Background
Fiske, Asa Severance was born on March 2, 1833 in at Strongsville, Ohio, United States. Son of David and Laura (Severance) Fiske.
Fiske, Asa Severance was born on March 2, 1833 in at Strongsville, Ohio, United States. Son of David and Laura (Severance) Fiske.
Bachelor of Arts, Amherst, 1855, Master of Arts, 1857. Divinity studies at Andover and Yale Theological Sems. (Doctor of Divinity, Hamilton College, 1889).
Moderator Synod of New York, 1888.
Ordained Congleton ministry, 1860. Pastor Saint Paul, 1859-1862. Chaplain 4th Minnesota Volumes, 1862-1865, and superintendent freedmen and abandoned lands in districts of Memphis and Natchez, under special detail by General Grant, 1863-1865.
Pastor Rockville, Connecticut, 1865-1870.
Presbyterian since 1870. Pastor Saint Peter’s Church, Rochester, 1870-1875, San Francisco, 1875-1884, Ithaca, New York, 1884-1896, Gunton Temple Church, Washington, 1896-1904.
Stated supply Warsaw, New York, 1904-1905, Niagara Falls, 1905-1906, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1906-1907, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Cortland, New York, 1907, Saint Charles Avenue Branch of 1st Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, 1914-1917.
Member National Society for Religious Education, G.A.R. (chaplain State encampment of California and of New York), Military Order Loyal Legion.
Married Elizabeth Worthington Hand, of Madison, Connecticut, 1860.