The city and county of San Diego : illustrated and containing biographical sketches of prominent men and pioneers (1888)
Van Dyke, Theodore S. (Theodore Strong), 1842-1923, Leberthon, T. T, Taylor, A · San Diego, Cal[if.] : Leberthon & Taylor · leaf 203
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 157 The youth and early manhood of John S. Harbison were passed upon a farm, but in 1854, having an attack of the gold fever, he made up his mind to come to California. In October of that year he sailed from New York on the steamship Northern Light , via Nicaraugua, con-… … JOHN S. HARBISON. San Francisco. He arrived in San Francisco November 20, and im- mediately started for the mining camp known as Campo Seco, in Amador County. Here he found that gold mining was not all his im- agination had pictured, he worked hard and received very meager returns. Considerably…
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