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...leader of the merrier element was James Leary Flood. In his blood was an instinct for the fleshpots; in his bank, money for it. His father was James Clair ("Bonanza King") Flood, onetime saloon keeper, later owner of the Comstock Lode with William S. O'Brien, James...
...outlook by no means favorable for a political career. His grandfather was Darius Ogden Mills who left a Buffalo bank for the 1849 gold rush, not as a prospector but as a hardheaded merchant and trader. Grandfather's first year's profit in California was $40,000. The Comstock Lode in Nevada made him rich. He doubled his money in railroad stock and timber land, returned to New York 30 years later to take his place near the top of Society. When he died in 1910 he left an estate of $41.000,000 in New York Central, Atchison, Topeka & Santa...
California gold attracted and European revolutions drove the Michelson family from their home at Strelno, Germany. Albert Abraham, then two, was just beginning to distinguish between German, Yiddish and Polish phrases. Nevada silver made the family pause at Virginia City, made with the Comstock Lode. There in 1869 Charles Michelson, now publicity director of the Democratic National Committee, was born. Tumultous Virginia City was no place to raise a family, although the small clothing store the father operated was prosperous. The Michelsons moved to Calaveras, Calif., birthplace in 1870 of Miriam Michelson, dramatic critic and author (Petticoat King, Duchess...
...path, she left them there. The fact that Elisabeth Mills found her path rose-strewn only aided her to leave many more behind. The roses she found were big round silver ones which her father, Darius Ogden Mills, reached down and plucked from the depths of the Comstock Lode. Darius Ogden Mills left his bank clerking job in Buffalo, N. Y., in the frantic year 1849, went to California. By the time his daughter Elisabeth was born in New York nine years later, he and John W. Mackay had amassed the kind of money that starts timocratic dynasties. With...
...spirited, he helped Colorado taxpayers fight their Moffat Tunnel case, served as local president of the Boy Scouts, headed the State Bar Association. Slight in build, quiet in manner, conservative in dress, he enjoys writing amateur plays for Denver Cactus Club to produce (The Fire of Romance, The Goldenrod Lode, The Third...