Melancton Hogeboom Fisk (May 28, 1843 – December 3, 1906) was an American physician and Wisconsin pioneer.

They were defending the city during the Second Battle of Memphis, when Confederate cavalry rushed into the city attempting to free prisoners from Irving Block prison and trying to influence the Union Army to pull back forces from other fronts.

After five years, he took an additional course of study at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York, then returned to De Pere to continue his work.

[1] Politically, Fisk was affiliated with the Democratic Party for most of his life, though he refused to vote for the populist William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 United States presidential election.

In Wauwatosa, he had an extensive medical practice and served as a consulting physician at the Milwaukee County Hospital and the Asylum for the Chronic Insane.

He served three consecutive terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly in the 1870s and was an officer in several banks.

The Lawtons were descended from John Layton, a large landowner in New Netherland who feuded with Governor Peter Stuyvesant around the time of the English takeover of the colony.