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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Family - How They Fared", "The Checkered Life and Sudden Death of Colonel James Fisk Jr.", "The Lethal Habit of the Marquise de Brinvilliers" 1954 Escape Narrator...
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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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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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James Fisk (politician) (1763–1844) was a U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1817 to 1818. Senator Fisk may also refer to: Josiah Fisk (1781–1844), New York...
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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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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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reporter Ben Urich to expose Fisk. When Fisk's assistant James Wesley discovers their investigation, which lead to Fisk's beloved mother, Wesley kidnaps...
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March 20, 2022 – via Worldcat.org. Barnaby J. Feder (August 13, 1981). "James Fisk, Bell Labs Executive And Leader In Radar, Dies At 70". The New York Times...
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