San Diego County Biographies
 
CHARLES H. FISK

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station agent at Perris, was born in Linsey, Victoria County, Ontario, November 
16, 1861. His father, a native of New Hampshire, was born in 1827.  His 
grandfather, Ephraim Fisk, was also a native of New Hampshire, and was the first 
man to be drafted in his State for the war of 1812. His ancestors came from 
England before the Revolution, and settled in New Hampshire. Mr. Fisk's mother, 
Maria (Jewett) Fisk, was born at Duffin's Creek, Ontario, in 1834. Her father, 
Mr. James Jewett, was a descendant of the Pennsylvania Dutch, and was a 
hotel-keeper and owner of a stage line in the early days when travel was 
performed in that way. Mr. Fisk's parents were married in 1857, and had a family 
of seven children, of which he was the second. He attended school in Canada 
until he was fifteen years of age. At the age of nineteen he was a telegraph 
operator at Loneville Junction, under his father's instructions. He remained 
here three years and a half.  In February,1884, he came to Los Angeles, where he 
remained six weeks, when he went to National City, and was ordered to Temecula 
as station agent of the Southern California Railroad Company. He was operator 
and station agent for fifteen months, when he engaged in the engineering 
department of the company, where he remained two years. He was then sent to 
Perris as assistant agent, and acted in that capacity for seven months. He was 
then promoted to station agent, having charge of the whole business, which 
position he now holds. The railroad business runs in the family, his father 
having been a station agent since 1873, and his grandfather held that position 
until he was eighty years of age. Mr. Fisk's great-grandfather was a soldier in 
the Revolution, and the musket taken by him from a British soldier is still in 
the family. Mr. Fisk is recording secretary of the Independent Order of 
Foresters at Perris, and is a man of high moral character.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  327-328