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Tiana Hoff Caitlyn Mitchell Andrea Prather Kelsi Sprenkle

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^ this has like alot of the timeline dates on it.

capzyles: usstudent20 nesd2009

Caty's 2nd event

Black Friday was on September 24, 1869, and this was the collapse of the U.S. gold market. James Fisk and Jay Gould were the two well-known crooks who had worked together in 1868 and used bribery and fraud to keep Vanderbilt from controlling the railroad that they owned, the Erie Railroad. In 1869 they tried to cheat Wall Street investors. Ulysses S. Grant became president and tried to improve the economy by reducing the supply of paper dollars. He used gold to buy greenbacks from the citizens at a discount and then replaced them with currency backed by gold, which ruined Gould and Fisk's plans. They bought as much gold as possible even though the value kept rising. Whenever the price of gold was high enough for them to get a good profit they would sell it. However, if Grant put more gold on the market by trading it for paper dollars, the price of the gold would stay low.



Dre's 1st event

On January 6, 1872, Edward E. Stokes, shot and badly wounded James Fisk. Coroner Young then arressted Stokes, and the following day James Fisk was dead. He died in his bedroom at Grand Central Hotel. Fisk had a military funeral for his work as a colonel. His funneral brought one of the largest crowds gathered in New York City at that time.



Dre's 2nd event:

In 1868, James Fisk brought a suit to the United States Circuit Court, against the Pacific Railroad and Credit Mobile of America. James Fisk was an investor in the Pacific Railroad. The Pacific Railroad was closing and selling their property, but they owed James Fisk money. If they closed then Lucy Fisk, his wife, wouldn't be able to sue them. So, she filed an injunction. The Pacific Railroad was suppose to give money to Credit Mobile of America to give to Fisk, but they never did. After Fisk had passed away, Lucy was the heir executor and she had to fill in as the plaintiff. On March 7, 1873, Lucy Fisk was granted an injunction against the Pacific Railroad and Credit Mobile of America by Judge Blatchford. Then she sued the companies and others for the same reason.



Tianas 1st event James Fisk was born April 1, 1834 close to Bennington, Vermont. The family he was born into consisted of a father whom was a peddler. During a short period of attending school James ran away and joined a circus. Later on down the road he became a hotel waiter, and then took in the family business of being a peddler. He then became a salesman for some dry goods firm in Boston. His high energy and his businessman abilities caused him to win a share of the business.



works cited: "James Fisk Biography." //Biography Base Home//. Web. 23 Sept. 2009. [].

Tianas 2nd event:

During the time of the Civil war (1861-64), James Fisk got his big break. He had become very wealthy by selling cotton from areas down South that were controlled by the Union. After the war Fisk and Gould made extremely large profits because they manipulated the the stock of the Erie Railroad. Fisk bought an opera house in New York City; he had held many parties there. Thus, resulting in his nickname “Jubilee Jim.”

works cited: Jones, Peter D'A. "Fisk, James." World book 2001. F ed. 2001. 188-89. Print.

Kelsi's event: In 1854, James Fisk married Lucy Moore at age 19.Lucy was an orphan at the age 15 at the time. Fisk cheated on her many times, but she put up with it anyway. She lived with one of her friends in Boston, and Fisk would spend all their summers together, visit her every couple weeks in Boston, and go on vacation with her. Since she lived with this lady friend, it was said there was a possibility that she could have been a lesbian.



[]) While living in New York, Fisk had a relationship with a show girl by the name of Josie Mansfield. Eventually Mansfield fell in love with Edward S. Stokes, Fisk’s business associate. Stokes left his family for Josie Mansfield and she left Fisk. Mansfield and Stokes tried to take money from Fisk by threatening the publication letters written by Fisk to Josie Mansfield that proved Fisk’s legal wrongdoings. Fisk refused to pay anything to Mansfield. Stoke became very frustrated and killed Fisk.

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