A proper Victorian gentleman. A Grand Warden of the Masonic Lodge. John Pearson was a foreman at a mine. John Pearson, Born Franklin, Vermont, October 9th, 1838. died Virginia City, Nevada, October 31st, 1892. Married Jennie Thomas December 10th, 1865. Jennie Thomas was born in Iowa on January 28, 1846. John Pearson was engaged in […]
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John Piper
John Piper was a young German immigrant operating a fruit stand in San Francisco when he, his wife, and brothers joined the 1860 rush to the Comstock Lode. Piper bought property on Virginia City’s B Street, a busy commercial corridor, where he established the Old Corner Bar. He became a successful saloonkeeper and ran for […]
Thomas Edison
1864 – Thomas Edison became a telegraph operator after he saved three-year-old Jimmie MacKenzie from being struck by a runaway train. Jimmie’s father, station agent J.U. MacKenzie of Mount Clemens, Michigan, was so grateful that he trained Edison as a telegraph operator. The story would have spread around the telegraph community that MacKenzie had taken […]