Nevada territorial Supreme Court Justice John Wesley North played an important role in the pivotal single ledge case. Born in Sand Lake, New York in 1815, North began teaching school at age fifteen. In 1833, he became a licensed lay preacher. While continuing to teach, he attended the Cazenovia Theological Seminary in New York. In […]
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James Warren Nye
James Warren Nye is the “Sagebrush Falstaff” Nevada’s only territorial governor, James Warren Nye, was born in New York on June 10, 1814 or 1815, the seventh of ten children. Nye was educated at home and attended Hamilton Seminary for one term. He worked as a stagecoach driver for four years before studying law. Nye […]
Adah Isaacs Menken
Petite – indeed, elfin–Lotta projected a winsome, appealing innocence and a girlish charm even in her mature years. Ada Isaacs Menken’s attraction, like that of Lola Montez, was explicitly erotic. The first years of her career playing romanic heroines-were undistinguished. In the early 1860s, however, she exploited the scandalous dissolution of her bigamous marriage to […]