James Fisk may refer to: James Fisk (financier) (1835–1872) James Brown Fisk (1910–1981), physicist James Fisk (politician) (1763–1844), U.S. Senator from...
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James Fisk Jr. (April 1, 1835 – January 7, 1872), known variously as "Big Jim", "Diamond Jim", and "Jubilee Jim" – was an American stockbroker and corporate...
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Black Friday (1869) (redirect from Fisk-Gould Scandal)
conspiracy between two investors, Jay Gould, later joined by his partner James Fisk, and Abel Corbin, a small time speculator who had married Virginia (Jennie)...
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War. This brought him into direct conflict with Jay Gould and financier James Fisk Jr., who had just joined Drew on the Erie board. They defeated the corner...
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panic in the United States was caused by the efforts of Jay Gould and James Fisk to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange. When the government...
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Fisk University is a private historically black liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1866 and its 40-acre (16 ha) campus is...
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James Fisk (October 4, 1763 – November 17, 1844) was an American politician from Vermont. He served in the House of Representatives and the United States...
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James Brown Fisk (August 30, 1910 – August 10, 1981) was president of Bell Labs from 1959 to 1973. He was born on August 30, 1910, in West Warwick, Rhode...
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Grant's first term in office, two New York conspirators, Jay Gould and James Fisk, launched a scheme to corner the gold market. The conspiracy was broken...
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in the Erie War, in which Drew conspired along with fellow directors James Fisk and Jay Gould to issue stock to keep Vanderbilt from gaining control of...
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Kingpin (character) (redirect from Wilson fisk)
The Kingpin (Wilson Grant Fisk) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Stan Lee and...
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Brothers James and William Fisk-Moore were photographers active in Kent from around 1911. They traded under the name of B&W Fisk-Moore Ltd, James having...
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James Liberty Fisk (ca. 1835 – 1902) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who promoted settlement of the western United States...
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refinery. In 1872, he shot and killed his business partner and love rival James Fisk. Stokes was tried three times and found guilty of manslaughter in the...
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collectors as the Jim Fisk model or the Jim Fisk pistol, since it attained the infamy of being the gun used in the murder of James Fisk in January 1872. Both...
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James Kidd Andrew Carnegie – (The Elder) – Adam Jonas Segaller Andrew Carnegie – (The Younger) – AJ Achinger Thomas Edison – Justin Morck James Fisk –...
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Fisk is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carlton Fisk (born 1947), American baseball player Charles Brenton Fisk (1925–1983)...
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Hall in the 2022 Apple TV+ true crime miniseries Black Bird, adapted from James Keene's memoir In with the Devil. Critic Nick Schager wrote of Hauser's...
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the Erie Railway. Gould, Drew, and James Fisk engaged in stock manipulations, known as the Erie War, and Drew, Fisk, and Vanderbilt lost control of the...
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Daniel Drew (finance) – New York James Buchanan Duke (tobacco, electric power) – Durham, North Carolina James Fisk (finance) – New York Henry Morrison...
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California: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-4408-3832-3. McMahon, James (March 14, 2020). "This much I know | Kyle McLachlan". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077...
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers are an African-American a cappella ensemble, consisting of students at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The first group...
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Dudley Chase (DR) Isaac Tichenor (F) 14th (1815–1817) 15th (1817–1819) James Fisk (DR) William A. Palmer (DR) 16th (1819–1821) Horatio Seymour (DR) 17th...
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Josie Mansfield (section Relationship with Jim Fisk)
fatal love triangle involving two wealthy, high profile men: financier Jim Fisk and his business partner Ned Stokes. Mansfield was a descendant of many colonial...
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history was the Panic of 1869, which occurred when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk took advantage of their connections with the Grant Administration in an...
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district of Vermont. Nov 4, 1817 – Jan 8, 1818 Democratic- Republican James Fisk 5 Jan 8, 1818 – Oct 20, 1818 Vacant Elected to finish Chase's term....
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New York City, that was famous as the site of the murder of financier James Fisk in 1872 by Edward S. Stokes. The hotel collapsed on August 3, 1973, killing...
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Fiske (1757–1824), associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court James Fisk (politician) (1763–1844), associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court...
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1769 play by David Garrick Jubilee (solitaire), two solitaire card games James Fisk (financier) (1835–1872), American stockbroker and corporate executive...
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Oakie. The film is a fictionalized account of the lives of financiers James Fisk and Edward S. Stokes. The screenplay was based on the book The Book of...
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