Otis Harrison Fisk papers

Otis Harrison Fisk was born in Covington, Kentucky, on March 5, 1870. His father was Charles Henry Fisk, LL.D. (B.A. Miami Univ. 1863, M.A. 1868; LL.B. Cincinnati Law School 1864), a lawyer in Lexington and Covington, Ky.; son of Lieut. John Flavel Fisk and Elizabeth Sarah (Johnson) Fisk of Covington. His mother was Margaret Anne (Emmal) Fisk; daughter of William B. and Catherine (Miller) Emmal of Lexington. Yale relatives include a cousin, John F. Fisk, 3d, '13 S.

He prepared at private schools and Mt. Auburn Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. Oration appointment Junior and Senior years; member Yale Union and Beta Theta Pi. He was educated at Yale University, where he received the degree of B.A. in 1892. For the following four years, he studied at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin, and Heidelberg, the latter of which awarded him a Ph.D. in 1895 and a J.D. in 1896. He continued his education at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he received an LL.B. in 1899. That same year, he was admitted to the Ohio bar and began practicing law, which he would continue to do until his retirement in 1929. Between 1914 and 1929, he was also a lecturer in medical jurisprudence at the University of Cincinnati. He was a assistant professor of civil law Harvard University 1929-30; lecturer on wills and probate practice Xavier University, Cincinnati, 1929-30; attended Y.M.C.A. Training School, Blue Ridge, N.C.; educational and building secretary Camp Sheridan 1918-19; trustee Miami University.

He was the author of numerous books on law:Stimmrecht und Einzelstaat in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika (1895, 1896), The Constitution of the German Empire (1916), Presumption in the Law (1921), Fundamentals of the Law of Proof in Judicial Proceedings (1928), and Kunde über America (1944); translated into German The Facts about the Candidate by Byron Andrews (1904) and from German Institutes of Roman Law of Civil Procedure by Leopold Wenger (1940).

He was a member of Cincinnati Bar Association and Masonic order and vestryman, treasurer, and Sunday-school superintendent Church of the Epiphany (Episcopal), Cincinnati, and vestryman St. Andrew's Church, Framingham.

He was married to Helen Whitelaw Pogue on June 5, 1901 and to Mabel Anna Hebb on February 9, 1929. With his first wife, Fisk had four daughters. Otis Fisk died of a cerebral hemorrhage on January 10, 1944, in Framingham, Massachusetts.