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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
y untried murderers were in the city jail, led to a six days riot, during which the courthouse and other buildings were set on fire, forty-five persons were killed, and 138 injured.] Brig.-Gen. D. G. Swaim, judge-advocategeneral of the army, tried by court-martial for attempt to defraud a banking firm in Washington, and failing to report an army officer who had duplicated his pay account; sentenced to suspension from duty for twelve years on half-pay; trial opens......Nov. 15, 1884 James D. Fish, president of the Marine Bank, of New York, secretly connected with the firm of Grant & Ward, convicted of misappropriation of funds, April 11, and sentenced to ten years at hard labor in Sing Sing, N. Y.......June 27, 1885 Ferdinand Ward, of the suspended firm of Grant & Ward, New York City, indicted for financial frauds, June 4; convicted and sentenced to ten years at hard labor in Sing Sing......Oct. 31, 1885 [Released, April 30, 1892.] Henry W. Jaehne, vice-president of the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
rom many persons in the Southern States......March 7, 1870 Texas readmitted by act approved......March 30, 1870 Secretary Fish proclaims the ratification of Fifteenth Amendment by twenty-nine States: North Carolina, West Virginia, Massachusettion......Nov. 21, 1871 Russian envoy to the United States, Catacazy, recalled, owing to personal differences with Secretary Fish......Nov. 25, 1871 Second session convenes......Dec. 4, 1871 Fish-Catacazy correspondence published......Dec. 6Fish-Catacazy correspondence published......Dec. 6, 1871 Attorney-Gen. A. T. Akerman resigns his office......Dec. 13, 1871 Tweed committed to the Tombs, but released on writ of habeas corpus......Dec. 16, 1871 President's message, with report of civil service reform commission......Dec. 19,ans closes......May 31, 1885 Benjamin Silliman, chemist, born 1816, dies at New Haven, Conn.......June 14, 1885 James D. Fish, president of the suspended Marine Bank of New York City, sentenced to ten years imprisonment at Sing Sing......June
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 49: (search)
should select or what means of support. His son Ulysses was engaged in the banking business with Ferdinand Ward and James D. Fish, and supposed he had accumulated four hundred thousand dollars. He offered to receive his father as a partner in his nsent to this, but proposed to invest his hundred thousand dollars in the business and become an actual partner. Ward and Fish concurred, and in 1880, General Grant was admitted as a special partner in the firm of Grant and Ward. He was never, hoo the world, of his relations with Grant and Ward, to tell himself the story of the deceit which had brought him low. James D. Fish, one of the partners in the firm, was on trial, and General Grant's testimony was desirable. He was now so feeble thf the guilt of one man's action, absolute in the assertion of the purity of his own. In his testimony he spared neither Fish nor Ward; he felt that this was his last blow, and he dealt it hard. If he had died then, as it was almost feared he migh