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Callias on 8 August 1895 at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in New York City, and only a few close friends knew of the ceremony. After their wedding ceremony they sailed to Paris and travelled Europe before arriving at Callias's estates on the island of Melita. Fish soon learned that
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Fish accompanied Barnum during his
European tours and was in constant communication with him through writing. It was rumoured that they were already in a relationship prior to the death of Barnum's first wife Charity on 19 November 1873. Indeed, upon hearing of Charity's death, Barnum travelled to
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of $ 40,000. The large size of the legacy displeased Barnum's children. As a widow, she applied for and received an
American passport and travelled Europe before returning to the United States. On 4 July 1893, she unveiled the statue of her late husband at Seaside Park in Bridgeport.
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English, had exaggerated his wealth and, upon her return to New York City in March 1896, there were rumours that the couple would separate. However, this was denied by her close relatives. Callias died of
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church in New York City on 15 September in front of a large crowd. They honeymooned at the
Windsor Hotel in New York City. She was 40 years his junior and was described in the American press as "a young pretty Lancashire lass".
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when he was exhibiting in
England; Barnum dedicated a chapter of his autobiography to John Fish. Due to her father's business success, by 1871 Nancy Fish and her family had moved to a large house in the relatively upmarket
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in
Manchester and thanked him for the inspiration he had provided. The two subsequently became close friends; John Fish named a pair of his engines "Barnum" and "Charity" (after Barnum's wife) and threw a party for
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Fish died in Paris on 23 June 1927, possibly due to complications from a series of strokes she suffered eighteen months earlier. News of her death was telegraphed to
Bridgeport, Connecticut, and reported in
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Southport to be with Fish and her father John, and did not attend his wife's funeral. Fish married Barnum twice in 1874, at
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cotton mill owner. John Fish credited his own business success to reading the autobiography of the successful businessman
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diplomat, nobleman and olive industry businessman of Greek descent. They had supposedly met when she fell from the
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and died in 1927. She was cremated and buried next to her second husband. A posthumous biography was published by
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diplomat, nobleman and businessman. Their marriage in New York City was
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672:. San Francisco Call. 9 March 1896.
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239:and ended in Callias' 1896 death.
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129: 1874; died
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780:"P. T. Barnum's second wife"
458:in the 1986 television film
943:Annie Jones (bearded woman)
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1072:The Greatest Show on Earth
988:Millie and Christine McKoy
903:Captain George Costentenus
443:Provence-Alpes-CĂ´te d'Azur
1099:Barnum's Aquarial Gardens
37:Nancy Fish Barnum in 1888
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1094:Barnum's American Museum
643:Barnum Family Genealogy
489:Barnum Family Genealogy
330:Bridgeport, Connecticut
260:Nancy Fish was born in
898:Henry Alexander Cooper
639:"Notes for Nancy FISH"
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1179:People from Blackburn
1125:The Herald of Freedom
913:John Diamond (dancer)
670:"Deceived by the Bey"
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1089:John "Grizzly" Adams
1065:The Greatest Showman
1042:Fictional portrayals
958:William S. Hutchings
923:Colonel Routh Goshen
883:Chang and Eng Bunker
757:"Grave (Alley 15/2)"
727:. 23 September 1896.
618:. Southport Visitor.
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160:; died
893:Circassian beauties
358:Marriage to Callias
1174:English socialites
1028:Wild Men of Borneo
983:Maximo and Bartola
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978:Master Juba
918:Admiral Dot
317:14 February
288:North Meols
88:Nationality
1158:Categories
1119:Nancy Fish
968:Jenny Lind
933:Joice Heth
761:cgpc06.org
466:References
445:, France.
394:Later life
313:the Strand
270:Manchester
266:Lancashire
256:Early life
252:magazine.
61:Lancashire
49:1850-04-22
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1131:Iranistan
1052:(musical)
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340:, and an
292:Southport
262:Blackburn
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244:baroness
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334:Marina
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