Fields (March 1, 1850 – August 1, 1896) was a Baptist preacher and orator in Illinois and Denver, Colorado.

In Quincy, Fields received two years of school, and during that period joined the Baptist church.

In 1870, while working as a barber, he began to study theology, and in 1875 he formed a church for blacks in Macomb.

That year he toured the country giving a speeches largely aimed at refuting Robert G. Ingersoll, a famous agnostic of the era.

[4] In late September, 1896, Fields went to Salt Lake City, Utah, to speak[5] and raise money for the Baptist Missionary Society of North America, but his trip was cut short.