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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 executive who has been referred to as one of the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age.
The panic, which became known as Black Friday, was the result of a 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) Grant, the younger sister of President Ulysses S. Grant.
James Liberty Fisk (ca. 1835 [1] – 1902 [2]) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who promoted settlement of the western United States. He led four expeditions from Minnesota to Montana in the 1860s, [ 2 ] before resigning his commission and settling there himself.
Gould's partner, James Fisk, joined the conspiracy later. Their plan was to convince President Grant not to sell Treasury gold, ostensibly to increase the sales of the country's agriculture products overseas, which would increase the shipping business of Fisk and Gould's Erie Railroad.
James Brown Fisk (1910–1981), physicist James Fisk (politician) (1763–1844), U.S. Senator from Vermont James L. Fisk (c. 1845–1902), Union Army officer and leader of four expeditions to Montana
Another provider of funds was a "silent partner", James Fisk, who operated the Erie Railroad and had a secret arrangement with Stokes to discount freight charges for the refinery. Fisk and Stokes shared the affections of the same woman, Helen Josephine Mansfield, and this caused animosity between the two men. In January 1871 Fisk arranged to ...
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 Senate.
It entered receivership in 1859 and was reorganized as 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 Erie in the summer of 1868, while Gould became its president. [14]