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	James Fisk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James "Big Jim" Fisk (April 1, 1834 - January 6, 1872), American financier, was born in Bennington, Vermont.
		In 1864 he became a stockbroker in New York and was employed by Daniel Drew as a buyer.
		He aided Drew in his war against Cornelius Vanderbilt for control of the Erie Railroad, which resulted in Fisk and Jay Gould becoming members of the Erie directorate.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/j/ja/james_fisk.html (261 words)

	JamesFergus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James Fergus was the first president of the Montana Pioneers, preceding organization of the Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers.
		James was educated in the parish schools, which served to nourish his inborn thirst for understanding and knowledge of the world.
		James noted this apparent lack of justice, and that he was left holding the bag for the expense of capture, feeding and sending escort.
	www.dangel.net /AMERICA/Fergus/JamesFergus.html (3487 words)

	James Fisk Biography / Biography of James Fisk Biography Biography
		James Fisk was born on April 1, 1834, near Bennington, Vt. His father was a peddler, and young Fisk worked with him until he struck out for himself.
		Fisk, ever alert to the main chance, realized that Jay Gould was really calling the tune, and he became Gould's man. Following Gould's orders, Fisk played the market in Erie stock and flooded it with new securities.
		Fisk's banking house was taken into various syndicates for the sale of large blocks of stock of the New York Central and the Southern Pacific railroads.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-james-fisk (575 words)

	AllRefer.com - James Fisk, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Other raids by Fisk and his associates upset markets and aroused public indignation.
		Fisk controlled the Fall River and Bristol steamboat lines on Long Island Sound, operated ferries on the Hudson, and bought an opera house in New York City, producing drama and light opera there.
		He was killed by Edward S. Stokes, a former business associate who was a rival for the attentions of the well-known actress Josie Mansfield.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/Fisk-Jam.html (330 words)

	James Fisk
		Fisk joined with Drew and Jay Gould to wage the Erie War, a scheme to use the Erie Railroad to pry huge amounts of money from the equally avaricious Cornelius Vanderbilt.
		Fisk was shot to death on the main stairway of the Broadway Central Hotel in New York City in January 1872.
		Fisk’s funeral was a massive affair, featuring appearances by a 200-piece band and his own state militia unit.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h865.html (413 words)

	About Dr. James
		Dr. Jade James was born in St. Louis, MO. Her education began at Most Holy Name of Jesus Catholic School from kindergarten to 6th grade.
		James attended Fisk University from 1990-1994 where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in Biology.
		James graduated Magna cum laude from Fisk University in 1994.
	members.aol.com /crcpdoc/About_Dr__James/about_dr__james.html (371 words)

	Great American History Fact-Finder - -Fisk, James, Jr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fisk, along with Jay Gould, helped cause the stock market crash in 1869 known as Black Friday.
		Fisk and Gould made millions and ruined many innocent investors when they tried to corner the gold market.
		Fisk was also involved in stock manipulation to control ship lines, as well as a struggle for control of the Erie Railroad, causing its ruin.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/gahff/html/ff_067700_fiskjamesjr.htm (113 words)

	Col. James Fisk, Jr., Drives a Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fisk, as the story went, immediately despatched a special seven-car "lightning train." This and several subsequent emergency shipments carried everything from coats and vests to coffee and flour, with an estimated value of $250,000.
		Fisk's charity seemed to substantiate the point, made again and again in contemporary discussions of the fire, that the relief effort transcended the materialism of the age and benefited the givers as much as it did the recipients of assistance.
		Fisk was fatally shot by an angry business associate the following January.
	www.chicagohs.org /fire/rescue/pic0156.html (183 words)

	Thomas McClure Rice - Person Page 39 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James Fleming married Lucy Armantha Witham, daughter of Nathan Rice Witham and Caroline Ellis.
		James Fisk married Cynthia Witham, daughter of Nathan Rice Witham and Caroline Ellis.
		James Wilt married Mary Frances Witham, daughter of Nathan Rice Witham and Caroline Ellis, on 15 February 1872 at New Straitsville, Perry County, Ohio.
	home.swbell.net /txanita/Genealogy/p39.htm (981 words)

	Vanderbilt University Daily Register
		Astronomers from Vanderbilt and Fisk universities might not be able to take students to the stars, but they can bring the stars to them.
		James and his colleagues at Fisk, Vanderbilt and its Dyer Observatory and Tennessee State University have adapted the program for children as young as 5 years old all the way through adults.
		The Fisk-Vanderbilt NASA Roadshow is part of the larger Fisk Astronomy and Space Science Training Program, which mentors undergraduates and graduate students with the goal of increasing the number of minority students pursuing doctoral degrees in the physical sciences.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /register/articles?id=14488 (468 words)

	Active Skim View of: James Brown Fisk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ninety years later James Fisk, president of Bell Laboratories, looking ahead to the telephone's hundredth anniversary, suggested to me, a longtime associate, that a historical volume ought to be planned as a record of the clevelopment of telephone science over that period.
		James, his sister Rebekah (Becky), and younger brother George were born in West Warwick, Rhocle Island, to the southwest of Providence.
		At Kelly's behest Fisk and Frank Leamer, seasoned director of personnel uncler two aciministrations, formulated a statement of salary policy, inclucling a graphic merit scale, that was available to any technical staff member for discussion with his superiors.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309036933&chap=90-117 (1220 words)

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		the son of Henry James Fisk, a businessman, and Bertha Brown.
		Fisk and his siblings to their maternal grandparents in
		Fisk had a life and a career that reflected the increasing interdependence
	www.csupomona.edu /~zywang/Fisk.htm (832 words)

	Charlie James ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		James’ paintings are powerful and show a strong demonstration of elegant reductive form.
		James’ theory is based on a fundamental field/ground relationship.
		James Francis Edward Stuart was a king without a throne: the uncrowned heir of King James VII and II.
	www.wwar.com /masters/j/james-charlie.html (1113 words)

	Active Skim View of: James Brown Fisk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Accordingly, this especially decisive period in Fisk's growth involved a remarkable combination of his early and innate interest in engineering, which was expertly fortified during the MIT undergraduate years and by the influence of Draper, and the oncoming era of quantum mechanics and atomic and molecular structure.
		Jim Fisk's effective conduct of the wartime work, for which he received the Presidential Certificate of Merit in 1946, also provided occasion for his broader and lifelong interest in public service.
		Fisk also pursued with Kelly, and onward into his own administration of the 1960s and early 1970s, transfer of the new materials science and engineering into much of Western Electric manufacturing and the Laboratories' product designs.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309043492&chap=93-102 (440 words)

	Fisk and James Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fisk planned to build multiple-monitor computer systems similar to a dual-monitor system we were using in our own stock trading (click
		Then came the event often described in the financial media as "the bursting of the bubble." The "Roaring Nineties" were over, and the "Fisk and James" computer business succumbed to the generally weak economic conditions prevailing at the beginning of the 21st Century.
		Even so, Clyde James (whose words you are reading here) decided individually to continue the "Fisk and James" web site, which has been redesigned in the form of this online stock trading newsletter.
	www.fiskandjames.com (244 words)

	AMAsearchdetail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James "Jim" Fisk was born in Bennington, Vermont, in 1834.
		Fisk quickly gained a negative reputation for his practice of manipulating stocks, gold, and other securities.
		Both Fisk and one of his former business associates, Edward Stokes, were competing for the affections of actress Josie Mansfield; during an argument over her on January 6, 1872, Stokes shot Fisk.
	www.fofweb.com /onfiles/ama/amasearchdetail.asp?recordpin=6011 (156 words)

	Database of Larry Flesher & Kimberly Tappmeyer
		She was married to Henry James FLESHER on 8 May 1881 in Gilmer County, WV.
		James Edward FIDLER was born in Nov 1836.
		Children were: Maxson J. Hannah A. James FISK died in 1814.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~flesher/Flesher/d58.htm (1092 words)

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		A typescript copy of a journal kept by the secretary of the 1862 Fisk Expedition to escort emigrants and gold-seekers through the Dakota Territory from Fort Abercrombie to Fort Benton.
		Bond's official account of the expedition was included as part of the report by James L. Fisk transmitted to the U.S. House of Representatives by the Secretary of War in 1863.
		Bond, a St. Paul lawyer, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1834 and died in Washington, D.C. in 1922.The Fisk expedition, led by James L. Fisk, was financed and supported by the U.S. Congress to protect and lead emigrants to gold fields in the Dakota Territory.
	www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/P2241.html (825 words)

	AIP International Catalog of Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James Brown Fisk, 1910-1981, S.B. in aeronautical engineering, 1931, Ph.D. in theoretical physics, 1935, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taught physics at the University of North Carolina and at MIT before joining Bell Laboratories in 1939.
		He was a member of the corporation at Harvard University and MIT, and served on MIT presidential search committees in 1965 and 1970.
		There is information about Fisk's assignment as head of a delegation of scientists sent to Geneva by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 to negotiate the technical groundwork for the nuclear test ban treaty.
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/144.html (319 words)

	James Fisk
		Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos.
		FISK, James, jurist, born about 1762; died in Swanton, Vermont, 1 December 1844.
		He was self-educated, studied law, and rose to eminence in the profession.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesfisk (784 words)

	Culpepper Connections' Family Tree - Person Page 465
		James Fisk was witness with Samuel Powers to Henry Culpeper's will 23 Nov. 1815, Curr.
		James Fiske and Mary Powers were witnesses to Joshua Cherry's will on 19 Mar 1805.
		James Fisk and Samuel McPherson were witnesses to William McPherson's will 20 Oct. 1791.
	gen.culpepper.com /ss/p465.htm (479 words)

	James Fisk
		The American financier James Fisk was born at Bennington, Vermont, on the 1st of April 1834.
		Subsequently by a well-planned "raid", Fisk and Gould obtained control of the road.
		Fisk was shot and killed in New York City by E. Stokes, a former business associate, on the 6th of January 1872.
	www.nndb.com /people/560/000050410 (253 words)

	American Experience \| Ulysses S. Grant \| People & Events \| Black Friday, September 24, 1869
		At the root of the scandal were two well-known scoundrels, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk.
		Starting on September 20, Gould and Fisk had started to buy as much gold as they could.
		Fisk's luck -- and Fisk himself -- proved shorter lived.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/e_friday.html (684 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Carlton Fisk
		As the ball started curving foul, Fisk hopped down the first base line and waved his arms towards fair territory willing the ball to stay in play.
		Although the Sox would lose the series the next day, Fisk's spontaneous and joyous reaction captured the public's imagination, as it seemed to exemplify the purity and innocence of baseball during a time of contentiousness and increasing labor strife in the game.
		Fisk was traded to the Chicago White Sox in 1980 after eight years with the Red Sox and retired in 1993.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200397 (256 words)

	NNYObits.com :: Newzjunky \| NNY death notices
		Born in Watertown, NY on August 8, 1920, he was the son of the late James G and the late Alma (Williams) Fisk.
		Fisk was employed by NY Central Railroad and later was a salesman for LaTouraine Coffee Co. and Pawling Rubber Co. of Pawling, N.Y. He is survived by his wife Eunice, daughters –Kay Hanson and Mrs.
		He was predeceased by an infant daughter Karol, his brother Richard Fisk and sister Bette Goodlander and son-in-law Paul Hanson.
	www.newzjunky.com /obits/0628fiskobit.htm (307 words)

	Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		In 1866 he formed Fisk and Belden, a brokerage firm, with the support of Daniel Drew.
		The following year Fisk joined Drew and Gould in protecting their control of the Erie Railroad from Cornelius Vanderbilt by issuing fraudulent stock.
		With Drew's help, Fisk aided Gould in an attempt to corner the gold market by inflating the price, a venture that brought them vast sums but led to the panic of “Black Friday,” Sept. 24, 1869.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/print_toc?tocId=9034403 (272 words)

	James Fisk - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James Fisk - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
		The article about James Fisk contains information related to James Fisk.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/James_Fisk (87 words)

	James Fisk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		James "Jim grande" Fisk (de abril el 1 de 1834 - de enero el 6 de 1872), financiero americano, nació en Bennington, Vermont.
		El agente Edward Arnold retrató Fisk en la película 1937 la tostada de Nueva York, que starred Arnold y Cary Grant.
		La película era una cuenta fictionalized de las vidas de Fisk y alimenta.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ja/James%20Fisk.htm (342 words)

	James Bard Online
		James Bard at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 2 works by James Bard
		James Bard at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture
		All images and text on this James Bard page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/bard_james.html (160 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		With Drew and Jay Gould, Fisk was a principal in the "Erie War," the struggle to prevent Cornelius Vanderbilt from gaining control of the Erie Railroad.
		In 1869, Fisk and Gould attempted to corner the gold market, an adventure that ended in the Black Friday panic of September 24.
		Fisk lived licentiously, without regard for his reputation.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1493/supplements/chp18/James%20Fisk.htm (156 words)

	Surname: FISK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There is an Ira Fisk listed in Ross Co. It shows that he had 4 male children living with him under the age of 10.
		I find it interesting that James H Fisk later had a gr grandson named Ira Fisk.
		I would love to find out if this Ira is James H.'s father and who the rest of the family is....
	www.donet.com /~scioto/cgi-bin/queries/ross/2000/index.cgi?read=869 (161 words)

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