Fisk, James, Jr., 1835-1872
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Name (Latin)
Fisk, James, Jr., 1835-1872
Other forms of name
Fiske, James, Jr., 1835-1872
Fisk, James, 1835-1872
Fisk, Jim, 1835-1872
Date of birth
1835-04-01
Date of death
1872-01-07
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Capitalists and financiers
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- American National Biography Online, 2013 October 29(Fisk, James (1 Apr. 1834-7 Jan. 1872); financial speculator; b. Pownal, Vt.; the son of James Fisk, a country peddler; shot to death by Edward Stokes on January 6, 1872, at the Grand Central Hotel, died the next morning)
- Verses composed by Byron DeWolfe, on the assassination and death of James Fiske. Jr., 1872.
- Wikipedia, 2013 November 1(James Fisk (financier); James Fisk, Jr. (April 1, 1835-January 7, 1872); known variously as "Big Jim," "Diamond Jim," and "Jubilee Jim"; American stockbroker and corporate executive who has been referred to as one of the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age; [Edward] Stokes shot Fisk in New York City on January 6, 1872 in the Grand Central Hotel. Fisk died the next morning ...)
- World Biographical Information System, 2013 October 29(Fisk, James; b. 1834; d. 1872; financier, theatre proprietor, railroad promoter, murder victim)
- The scarlet woman of Wall Street : Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt ... c1988:p. 129, etc. (James Fisk, Jr.) p. 133 (b. Pownal, Vt., Apr. Fool's Day, 1835) p. 329, etc. (shot by Edward Stokes at Grand Central Hotel, Jan. 6, 1872)
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Wikipedia description:
James Fisk Jr. (April 1, 1835 – January 7, 1872) was an American stockbroker and corporate executive who was one of the robber barons of the Gilded Age. He achieved much ill-fame for his role in Black Friday in 1869, where he and his partner Jay Gould befriended the unsuspecting President Ulysses S. Grant in an attempt to use the President's good name in a scheme to corner the gold market in New York City. On January 7, 1872, Fisk was assassinated in New York City by his former mistress's new lover, Edward Stiles Stokes, who was attempting to blackmail him.
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