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James L. Fisk : ウィキペディア英語版 | James L. Fisk James Liberty Fisk (ca. 1835〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guide to the Fisk Family papers / 1858-1901 )〕 -1902) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who promoted settlement of the western United States. He led four expeditions from Minnesota to Montana in the 1860s.〔 ==Early life== Fisk was born in New York of Irish extraction, the eldest of six sons of John B. and Jerusha T. Fisk.〔 He worked as a "raftsman, farmer, carriage maker, and newspaperman" for the ''Daily Courier'' of Lafayette, Indiana.〔 Four of his five brothers also became newspapermen.〔 Becoming engrossed with the western frontier, he moved to White Bear Lake, Minnesota sometime in the 1850s, married Lydia Burson,〔 and started farming.〔 In 1857, he was in the expedition of William H. Nobles which tried unsuccessfully to build a wagon road from Fort Ridgely to South Pass.〔 Later, he was the secretary of the Dakota Land Company, which promoted settlement along the road.〔
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