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Description
James Jerome Smith was born in Sydney, Australia, and came to California as a baby. Smith's parents settled in San Francisco where James Jerome attended grammar school. James Jerome worked at many different things, but eventually worked for the Central Pacific Railroad doing advertising. In 1886, he moved to San Diego where he worked as a real estate agent and acquired considerable property. In 1887 he began his career in mining with a trip to Alaska on behalf of a New York Bonding syndicate looking for good mining prospects. He continued to look for good mining prospects in Tuolumne County, after he married, in 1888, and moved to Stockton, where he remained until his wife died in 1908. He then moved back to San Francisco, married again, eventually retiring to Oakland, California. Letters, notices od location for quartz claims, agreements, and other legal documents for four separate groupings of correspondence: 1. J. J. Smith and George Pilz; 2. Smith and Joseph Behm; 3. West Point Reduction Works; 4. Misc., Potazuba Mining Co., Stockton Woolen Mill, the California Wheat Starch Co. and the Tokay Vineyard. Smith, James Jerome. Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library. California State Library, California History Section;
Type
text
Extent
1 manuscript box ; 15 1/4 x 12 x 3 in.
Identifier
(C)001627062CSL01-Aleph (OCoLC)1043671642
Language
English
Subject
Behm Universal Pulverizer California Wheat Starch Factory Santa Helena Gold Mining Company Stockton Woolen Mill Company Tokay Vineyard Company West Point Reduction Works Mines and mineral resources--California--Tuolumne County Chinese Camp (Calif.)
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