Army Legacies: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Irving Fishman
Irving Fishman was born in NYC in 1918 and moved to Bathgate in the Bronx when he was four, after his mother died and his Aunt Rebecca Rosenberg offered to raise him with his cousins Henrietta and Esther. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School and then went on to the University of Wisconsin and Rutgers, ultimately obtaining a prestigious masters degree in Statistics, with a concentration in Economics. During World War II Irving entered the Army as an enlisted man and was picked to go to...
