just too small

[Wilson Gray]

I wonder whether Jim Fisk is an ancestor of Wilson "The Kingpin" Fisk.

-Wilson Gray

On Jan 28, 2005, at 11:19 AM, George Thompson wrote:

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> Here is a familiar expression that I don't see in HDAS or in Whiting &
> Taylor's collection of American proverbs.
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> New York city at that time wasn't big enough to hold Josie Mansfield,
> Jim Fisk and Stokes all at once.
> Samuel A. Mackeever, Glimpses of Gotham and City Characters, N. Y.:
> National Police Gazette, 1880, p. 18, col. 2  [Jim Fisk, the rascally
> financier; Edward Stokes wound up shooting him.]
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> GAT
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> George A. Thompson
> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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