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The True Northener
Paw Paw, MI
Thursday, October 1, 1885

         Dr. GEORGE WHITFIELD FISH, ex-United States Consul
       to China and Tunis, and a well-known resident of
       Flint, died at his home in that city, of pneumonia.
       He was 70 years old. Dr. FISH was a native of Kort-
       right, Delaware County, N. Y., and came to Flint in
       1839 after having obtained a medical education in
       Eastern schools. In 1850 he went to Panama as surgeon
       for the Panama Railroad, and in 1859 went to China,
       where he was appointed Consul at Ning-Po. In this 
       connection he was present at the storming of Ning-Po
       by the Taipings. At the breaking out of the civil war
       he enlisted as surgeon in the Fourth Michigan Cavalry.
       He was taken prisoner by the Confederates at Stone
       River. Returning from the war, where he was one of 
       the party who captured JEFF DAVIS, he started the
       Saginaw Daily Enterprise, and became succesively
       Collector of Internal Revenue for the Sixth District
       of Michigan, State Senator, and Trustee of the Flint
       Asylum.
       
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