Willard Fiske
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Daniel Willard Fiske (1831–1904) was an American librarian and scholar.
University librarian and professor at Cornell University from 1868, he made a reputation as an authority on the Northern European languages, and Icelandic language and culture in particular.
He married in 1880 Jennie McGraw, whose death in 1881 made him a rich man; but the legacies Jennie made involved him in The Great Will Case. He subsequently spent much time in Italy, and collected manuscripts. He left a large bequest, the Fiske Collection, to Cornell.
His interests include chess: he compiled a tournament book for the first American Chess Congress in 1857, and edited Chess Monthly from 1857 to 1860 with Paul Morphy
