Hon.
Nicholas
Fish
II
Born in New York City, New York, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Hamilton Fish
and Julia Ursin Niemcewiez (Kean) Fish
Brother of
Sarah Morris (Fish) Webster, Elizabeth Stuyvesant (Fish) D'Hauteville, Julia Kean (Fish) Benjamin, Susan LeRoy (Fish) Rogers, Hamilton Fish II, Stuyvesant Fish and Edith Livingston (Fish) Northcote
Husband of
Clemence S. Bryce
— married
7 Sep 1869 in Newport, Rhode Island
Father of
Elizabeth St. Clare (Fish) Potter and Hamilton Fish
Died
at age 56
in New York City, New York, United States
Profile last modified
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| Preceded by James O. Putnam |
Nicholas Fish U.S. Ambassador to Belgium 1882—1885 |
Succeeded by Lambert Tree |
| Preceded by George Schneider |
U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland 1877—1881 |
Succeeded by Michael J. Cramer |
Biography
Nicholas Fish II is Notable.
Nicholas Fish was born in New York City on February 19, 1846, the son of Hamilton Fish and Julia Kean. His father was a U.S. Secretary of State. His grandfather, Colonel Nicholas Fish, was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
He was educated at Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, practiced law in New York City, and then went into diplomatic service.
He served as minister to Belgium (1882–1886), and then held the position of chargé d'affaires to Switzerland (1877–1881).
He married Clemence Smith-Bryce of New York City. Their only son, Hamilton, a soldier in the War with Spain, was the first American killed on land in that war. He was killed in action in Cuba, June 26, 1798, during the Santiago Campaign, while serving as Sargent of troop L, 1st Vol. Calvery (Roosevelt's Rough Riders), leading his men at the first charge at Siboney, in the battle of Las Guasimas, in his 25th year. He was buried in the St. Philip's Protestant Episcopal Churchyard, Garrision, N.Y. Their only daughter, Elizabeth St. Claire, married Robert Burnside Potter.[1]
On September 16, 1902, as he was leaving a New York City bar, he was assaulted by Thomas J. Sharkey, and died from blunt force trauma to the head. His assailant was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in prison. Nicholas Fish was buried at Saint Philip's Church Cemetery in Garrison, New York.
Sources
See also:
- Fish, Lester Warren. The Fish Family in England and America. (Tuttle Publishing Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1948).
- Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 14 June 2018), memorial page for Nicholas Fish, II (19 Feb 1846–16 Sep 1902), Find A Grave: Memorial #18942733, citing Saint Philip's Church Cemetery, Garrison, Putnam County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave.
- Sackett Family Association, Thurmon King's New Sackett Family Database, profile for Julia Kean.
- Nicholas Fish II on Wikipedia.
- Wikidata: Item Q7025396, en:Wikipedia
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