Frederick Fiske Warren (July 3, 1862 – February 2, 1938) was a successful paper manufacturer, fine arts doyen, United States tennis champion of 1893, and major supporter of

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system which he helped develop in

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, in the 1930s. Fiske Warren established Georgist single-tax colonies and a social experiment in Andorra to disprove Malthus's population theory.

Early life

Known throughout his life simply as "Fiske Warren," he was the son of Samuel Dennis Warren and Susan Cornelia (Clarke) Warren of

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. His father was the owner of the S. D. Warren Paper Co. in Westbrook, Maine. Born in

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on July 3, 1862, Fiske was raised in a mansion on 67 Mount Vernon Street"The Mount Vernon Street Warrens" Martin Green, Simon & Schuster, 1989 , pp. 36-37. on Beacon Hill in

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. He had four siblings: Samuel Dennis Warren II (1852–1910), U.S. Attorney; Henry Clarke Warren (1854–1899), scholar of Sanskrit and Pali; Edward Perry Warren (1860–1928), collector of Warren cup and Cornelia Lyman Warren who was a philanthropist. As part of a philanthropic and well educated family, the Warren brothers and sister all enjoyed tranquil childhoods growing up between the family homes in Boston and Waltham, also known as "Cedar Hill". Fiske Warren was graduated from Harvard College in 1884. He operated the first "electric carriage" seen in Massachusetts in 1891.

Married life

On May 14, 1891, he married Gretchen Osgood, daughter of Dr. Hamilton and Margaret Cushing (Pearmain) Osgood at Trinity Church in Boston. The Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks performed the ceremony. The Osgoods were a well-known Beacon Hill family that claimed a direct genealogical line to

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and

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. Their country

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, was added to the

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in 1996. Fiske Warren died at

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in Boston on February 2, 1938.

References

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