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unusual facts about Alexander G. Fisk



Alexander G. Barry

Alexander Barry was born on August 23, 1892, in Astoria, Oregon, at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Alexander G. Cattell

He was a member of the Philadelphia Common Council from 1848 to 1854, organized the Corn Exchange Bank, and was its president from 1858 to 1871.

Alexander McCandless

Alexander G. McCandless (1861–1939), mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, 1902–1903

Clinton B. Fisk

Prohibition Park, a planned community on Staten Island, New York, named one of its major streets Clinton B. Fisk Avenue in his honor.

In 2001 he was the first to be inducted into the new Hillsdale County, Michigan Veterans' Hall of Fame, for his distinguished service in the American Civil War.

The name remains, although the community changed its name to Westerleigh.

Harvey Edward Fisk

In addition to his brother Pliny, Harvey E. Fisk's other brothers were Charles J. Fisk, banker and former Mayor of Plainfield, New Jersey; Wilbur C. Fisk, former president of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company; and Alexander G. Fisk, also a banker.

James Fisk

James L. Fisk (c. 1845-1902), Union Army officer and leader of four expeditions

Louise Huntington

Director Varick Frissell, cinematographer Alexander G. Penrod, and almost all the film crew were killed on March 15, 1931, when the sealing ship SS Viking, from which they were shooting additional footage, exploded in ice off the Horse Islands on the northern Newfoundland coast.

Nathaniel P. Langford

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.


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