Fisk began his career as a clerk in a dried goods store located in Trenton, New Jersey.

Both men were short on capital at the time and relied on $15,000 worth of loans from family and friends.

Fisk and Hatch found success as sub-agents for Jay Cooke & Company, popularizing and selling millions of dollars in government war securities in New York and New England.

[4] In 1918, the Fisk estate, "Riverside" in Ewing Township, New Jersey, was purchased, through a gift of James Cox Brady, by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton.

Bishop Thomas J. Walsh donated the property to the Religious Teachers Filippini for a motherhouse and novitiate.