Frederick Fiske Warren (2 July 1862 – 2 February 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

He was the son of Samuel Dennis Warren and Susan Cornelia Warren of

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. Born in

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

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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".

Married life

On 14 May 1891, he married

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in Boston. 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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."Erskine Childers" Jim Ring, John Murray Publishing, London 1996 , p81. Their country

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, was added to the

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in 1996.

Notes

References

*''The Mount Vernon Street Warrens,'' Martin Green, Simon & Schuster, 1989 *''Erskine Childers,'' Jim Ring, John Murray Publishing, 1996
Warren-Osgood Wedding Announcement from the New York TimesNewspaper
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