Pacific Railroad Bond, City and County of San Francisco, 1865
Pacific Railroad Bond, City and County of San Francisco, 1865In 1856, he and Jane moved to San Francisco, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits on a large scale.
Pacific Railroad Bond, City and County of San Francisco, 1865In 1861, after hearing an intriguing presentation by Theodore Judah, he was one of the four principal investors, along with Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford ( also known as the big four ), who formed the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America.
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