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About Alvarez Fisk
Alvarez Fisk was an American cotton broker, plantation owner, merchant-financier, and enslaver of the antebellum U.S. South. Originally from Massachusetts, he and two brothers moved to the Natchez District in the early 19th century and became wealthy. He was a philanthropist in later life. He and his brother Abijah Fisk were key figures in the beginnings of the New Orleans Public Library.
Everything about Alvarez Fisk →- Occupation
- businessperson
- Born
- January 19, 1784
- Died
- November 15, 1853