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Robert FitzSimmons offered to take on any of the invading generals, or all of them, and if he didn't beat them it would only be because the referee had a wife and seven small children and had asked him as a personal favour to let himself be knocked out. He had lost several fights that way.
In 1789, by the first Congress which sat under the Constitution, an act was passed to enforce the ordinance of 1787, including the prohibition of slavery in the Northwestern Territory. The bill for this act was reported by one of the "thirty-nine" Thomas Fitzsimmons, then a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
They were John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman, William S. Johnson, Roger Sherman, Robert Morris, Thomas Fitzsimmons, William Few, Abraham Baldwin, Rufus King, William Paterson, George Clymer, Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, and James Madison.
Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, Thomas Fitzsimmons, James Wilson, Thomas Mifflin, George Clymer, Jared Ingersoll, Gouverneur Morris. Delaware. George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom. Maryland. James M'Henry, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll. Virginia. John Blair, James Madison, Jr. North Carolina.
I asked him if he were hungry, and he forgot to grunt and said "yes." I brought out some food for him, and he stood in the shed and ate it like a hungry wolf. He gave a satisfied grunt when he got through, and I once more tried to get him to let me have the gun, but he hung to it without even a grunt, and started in the direction of the Fitzsimmons building.
And if you glance up from your morning paper and sort of wonder out loud whether Corbett or Fitzsimmons is the better man, mother-in-law will glare at you over the top of her specs and ask if you don't think it's invidious to make any comparisons if they're both striving, to lead earnest, Christian lives.
Of all cures for melancholy introspection a violent blow in the solar plexus is the most immediate. If Mr Corbett had any abstract worries that day at Carson City, I fancy they ceased to occupy his mind from the moment when Mr Fitzsimmons administered that historic left jab. In my case the cure was instantaneous.
I could perceive that that was a grotesque platform gesture of his, when he drove a comic point home. I was waiting at the station ... where I had shaken hands with Bob Fitzsimmons, and had seen Emma Silverman off.... Penton Baxter was due on the eleven o'clock train from Kansas City. I surely must be on the road to becoming somebody, with all these famous people taking such an interest in me.
And maybe he would have passed up the lobster at that and stuck to the sardines." "Sardines!" "Ain't kids allowed sardines?" said Steve anxiously. "The guy at the store told me they were wholesome and nourishing. It looked to me as if that ought to hit young Fitzsimmons about right. What's the matter with them?" "A little bread-and-milk is all that he ever has before he goes to bed."
And every spring, in anticipation of this mêlée, reporters from the Kansas City papers were sent to cover the story of the proceedings of the Old Settlers' Society. Bob Fitzsimmons stopped off at our town, with his show. Though I couldn't afford to attend the performance, I did race down to the station, go up to him, and ask the privilege of a handshake.
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