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Leidesdorff was a major San Francisco (Yerba Buena) land owner from about 1844. He was born in the Virgin Islands to a Danish father and black mother, and came to California in 1841, after a residency in New Orleans. He served as city treasurer, chairman of the school board, and as United States Vice Consul at San Francisco. He died on May 18, 1848. From the Robert Cowan collection. Bust length portrait, with a mustache and long sideburns.
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