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**“James Fisk (financer)” //Wikipedia// www.wikipedia .com February 20, 2008**
James Fisk was born April 1, 1834 in Bennington, Vermont. He was born to a peddler who traveled with goods through Connecticut. He lived in Bennignton, Vermont for most of his youth. James as a young child ran away and joined the Van Amberg’s Mammoth Circus and Menagerie. He was good at his position in the circus because he had used some of his dads peddling skills. James Fisk’s first job was a hotel waiter, and finally took over his fathers business as a peddler. Then he became a salesman for a Boston dry goods firm. In the civil was he accumulated cotton smuggling. He soon gained a lot of wealth which he soon lost in speculation. In 1864 James became a stockbroker along with Daniel Drew during the civil war against Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1864 for control of the Erie railroad. James Fisk and Jay Gould became members of Erie directorate, which granted Fisk and Gould control of the railroad. James first marrige was to a Lucy Moore in 1854, she was a orphan from springfeild, Ma. Fisk encountered in so many Extramaritail affairs so she spent her days with a woman friend. Later, James had a relationship with Josie mansfield a show girl and on many accounts a prostitue. After marrying Josie, she later fell in love with Fisks associate Ned S. Stokes. Stokes left his wife and later shot fisk to his death on the main stariway on broadway central hotel in New York City, January 1872. Ned Stokes was his rival for attention for Josie Mansfeild, an actress of limited talent, also James Fisk's late wife. I belive that James fisk was a captian of industry. He never tried to fight over a certain think or product. He owned his own peddlers shope and worked onwrd from there becoming a stockbroker and having a very successful job.

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