After losing the election for secretary of state, and then being given a job as a state assemblyman – whose small pay and small law practice made him too poor to continue
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Orion chills alone
He works as a miner, hangs a lazy law shingle, and writes letters to Midwest Newspapers to make money MT&OC pg 110
Israel Friedman travels through NV
Lithuanian Jew member of Yiddish Theatre of NYC, traveled with Edwin Forrest on his 1866 tour to California. Forrest was paid $10,000 by Theatre manager Thomas Maguire to star as Othello in traveling shows, but Forrest was a ‘tyrant of the stage’ and young John McCullough had to cover for him when he was too […]