. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. %i«mi!i.»v«i»»>v>i»itn>n>»>ni,^. gnix>yii?iv<mi?w<jn!ia^in>!ian»,^ d--- Ship-Carpenter, Steamboat Cle
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. %i«mi!i.»v«i»»>v>i»itn>n>»>ni,^. gnix>yii?iv<mi?w<jn!ia^in>!ian»,^ d--- Ship-Carpenter, Steamboat Clerk and Banker. ?ERY MANY OF THE , in the early years of the gold discoveries on the Pacific coast, possessed a J^Jj degree of dash and enterprise not common in other parts f the world. j One of the notables on the coast in an early day was W. C. Ralston. In business courage, liberality of spirit, generous hospitality, and power to achieve, he was much liiie Harry Meiggs. Ralston was a native of Ohio, where, in boyhood, he was put to the work nf ship- ,.^*a carpentering. Snbse- ^^^^yy>-quently serving for a time as aclerk on a Mississippi steamer, hestarted for California by way ofPanama, in 1850, in which latterplace he found employment as theagent for a line of steamships plyingbetween Xew York and San Frsm-cisco. To more effectually serve thecompany he took up headquartersin San Francisco in 1853, where hewas soon after engaged in banking,the firm being known at one
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