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See also:FISK, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1834-1872) , See also:American financier, was See also:born at See also:Bennington, See also:Vermont, on the 1st of See also:April 1834. After a brief See also:period in school he ran away and joined a See also:circus. Later he became a hotel waiter, and finally adopted the business of his See also:father, a pedlar. He then became a salesman for a See also:Boston dry goods See also:firm, his aptitude and See also:energy eventually winning for him a See also:share in the business. By his shrewd dealing in See also:army contracts during the See also:Civil See also:War, and it is said by engaging in See also:cotton See also:smuggling,he accumulated a considerable See also:capital which he soon lost in See also:speculation. In 1864 he became a stockbroker in New See also:York and was employed by See also:Daniel See also:Drew as a buyer. He aided Drew in his war against See also:Vanderbilt for the See also:control of the See also:Erie railway, and as a result of the See also:compromise that was reached he and See also:Jay See also:Gould became members of the Erie directorate. The association with Gould thus began continued until his See also:death. Subsequently by a well-planned " See also:raid," Fisk and Gould obtained control of the road. They carried See also:financial " buccaneering " to extremes, their See also:programme including open See also:alliance with the See also:Tweed " See also:ring," the wholesale See also:bribery of legislatures and the buying of See also:judges. Their See also:attempt to .corner the See also:gold See also:market culminated in the fateful See also:Black See also:Friday of the 24th of See also:September 1869. Fisk was shot and killed in New York See also:City by E. S. See also:Stokes, a former business See also:associate, on the 6th of See also:January 1872.
End of Article: FISK, JAMES (1834-1872)
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