Dr. James Brown Fisk, physicist, President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was elected to the Board of Trustees.

* 1869 – " Black Friday ": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.

* Former President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William H. Crawford, Secretary of War under President James Madison, on June 20, 1816: " In your letter to Fisk, you have fairly stated the alternatives between which we are to choose: 1, licentious commerce and gambling speculations for a few, with eternal war for the many ; or, 2, restricted commerce, peace, and steady occupations for all.

They had been left behind by a wagon train commanded by Captain James L. Fisk to effect some repairs to an overturned wagon.

In 1866-1868, Drew engaged in the Erie War, in which Drew conspired along with fellow directors James Fisk and Jay Gould to issue stock to keep Vanderbilt from gaining control of the Erie Railroad.

In 1869, a group of speculators, headed by James Fisk and Jay Gould, sought to profit off this by cornering the gold market.

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** James Fisk ( DR ), November 4, 1817 – January 8, 1818

On June 16, 1862 Langford, as a member and officer of the Northern Overland Expedition, commanded by Captain James L. Fisk, left Saint Paul to establish a wagon road to the Salmon river mine regions of the Rocky Mountains via Fort Benton.

Butterfield agreed to tell Corbin and speculators Jay Gould and James Fisk when the government was planning to sell gold, a market that Fisk and Gould wanted to corner.

Fisk resigned as Speaker, and the Senate elected Magoffin's choice, James Fisher Robinson as Speaker.

* January 7 – James Fisk, entrepreneur

Pash's command comprised his executive officer Captain Wayne B. Stanard, four Counter Intelligence Corps ( CIC ) agents, four interpreters, and four scientists: Dr. James B. Fisk from the Bell Telephone Company, Dr. John R. Johnson from Cornell University, Commander Bruce Olds from ONI and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), and Major William Allis, originally from MIT although then serving on the War Department scientific staff.

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The Grand Central Hotel, later renamed the Broadway Central Hotel, was a hotel at 673 Broadway, New York City, that was famous as the site of the murder of financier James Fisk in 1872 by Edward S. Stokes.

* James Fisk ( financier ) ( 1834-1872 ), financier and speculator

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In the Erie War of the 1860s, four well-known financiers struggled for control of the company ; Cornelius Vanderbilt versus Daniel Drew, James Fisk and Jay Gould.

Over the years the lineup has grown and Browning has teamed up with other knifemakers such as Jerry Fisk, Bailey Bradshaw, John Fitch, Joseph Keeslar and James Crowell of the American Bladesmith Society.

The 1869 Black Friday financial panic in the United States was caused by the efforts of Jay Gould and James Fisk to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange.

Fisk resigned as Speaker and was replaced by James F. Robinson.

* 1868 – Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player ( d. 1949 )

The character of Sir Lawrence Wildman, meanwhile, was modelled on the prominent British financier and corporate raider Sir James Goldsmith.

Northcote was named for Sir Henry Stafford Northcote, an English Statesman and financier who had financial interests in James J. Hill's projects.

The town was renamed Keene in honor of James P. Keene, a financier.

The name honors James A. Blair, a financier of the Western Pacific Railroad.

* James P. Gorman, financier

Bennett bought the mines, along with Montana mining financier Charles X. Larrabee, and they soon sold their interests to James J. Hill, owner of the Great Northern.

He became friends with James T. Aubrey, president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and was introduced to celebrities such as financier Kirk Kerkorian, Chris-Craft chairman Herb Siegel, entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., and The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson.

The boy's grandfather, James Duncan MacHardie, the most famous financier in America, invites Alfred and Mary to dinner.

* James White ( financier ) 1877 – 1927 ( 1877 – 1927 ), English property speculator

** James Boorman Colgate ( 1818 – 1904 ), financier, son of William Colgate

* Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild ( 1868 – 1949 ), a French financier

James Biddle ( February 18, 1783 – October 1, 1848 ), of the Biddle family, brother of financier Nicholas Biddle and nephew of Captain Nicholas Biddle, was an American commodore.

James Cholmeley Russell, ( 1841-1912 ) the barrister, financier, property developer and railway entrepreneur lived at The Woodlands, Merrow and latterly Longdene House, Haslemere where he died on the 29th August 1912.

Morpho butterflies, often very expensive, have always been prized by extremely wealthy collectors. Famous collections include those of the London jeweller Dru Drury and the Dutch merchant Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, the Paris diplomat Georges Rousseau-Decelle, the financier Walter Rothschild, the Romanov Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia and the, English and German respectively, businessmen James John Joicey and Curt Eisner.

Sir James Michael " Jimmy " Goldsmith ( 26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997 ) was an Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon.

In September 2009, Chicago financier James C. Tyree and a team of investors had a $ 5 million bid accepted to purchase the Sun-Times Media Group, contingent on the paper's unions accepting to deep compensation cuts and work-rule changes.

Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild ( February 1, 1827-May 26, 1905 ), was a French, financier, vineyard owner, art collector, philanthropist, racehorse owner / breeder and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France.

In 1832, Tipton purchased the mortgage on Jennings ’ s farm and enlisted the help of local financier James Lanier to buy up the debt on Jennings ’ s other holdings ; in total Jennings owed the two men several thousand dollars in addition to hundreds of dollars in loans to various other individuals.

* Sir James Hamet Dunn ( 1874 – 1956 ), 1st Baronet, Canadian financier and industrialist

Bojangles co-founded the New York Black Yankees baseball team in Harlem in 1936 with financier James " Soldier Boy " Semler.

Notable alumni include former Secretary of State George Schultz 1938, former governor of Connecticut Ella T. Grasso 1936, satirist Tom Lehrer 1943, New York Times chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger 1945, financier Henry R. Kravis 1963, actor, writer and producer James Widdoes 1972, 1998 Winter Olympic Games United States women's ice hockey Olympic gold medalist Gretchen Ulion 1990 and Taiwanese fashion designer Jason Wu graduated in 2001.