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Title: 1895 Pictorial History of Nevada County, California (979.437 COM (622.342 NEV, PH 1-4))(2000) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Catalog #: 979.437 COM (622.342 NEV, PH 1-4) Author: W. F. Prisk, J. E. Poingdestre, and Samuel Butler. Foreword and index by David A. and Ardis H. Comstock. Publisher: Grass Valley: Comstock Bonanza Press Related Items: Directories > Nevada County Mining Review (622.342.NEV)(1895) Pamphlets > Grass Valley and Vicinity (PH 1-4)(Circa 1895) Published: 2000 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Subjects: Nevada County, Grass Valley, Nevada City, Mines, Mining Industry, Who's Who, 19th Century, 1890s Notes: Full title: 1895 Pictorial History of Nevada County, California: Reissue of "Nevada County Mining Review" compiled by William Frederick Prisk Jr. and the staff of the Grass Valley Daily Morning Union and "Grass Valley and Vicinity" compiled by J. E. Poingdestre with an historical sketch by Samuel Butler: To which has been appended a new foreword and a comprehensive index compiled by David A. and Ardis H. Comstock. vi, 186 pages. # of Pages: 194 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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NEVADA COUNTY MINING REVIEW which have been beneficial to him in after life. He left Germany in 1873, coming direct to Grass Valley. Entering the store of Jacob Heyman he acted as clerk until November, 1876, when the bank of Weissbein Bros. & Co. was established. This bank, from a small beginning, has grown to be one of the a financial institutions of the county under the efficient management of the Weissbein brothers. Mr. Weissbein is largely interested in the W. Y. O. D. and other mining properties, and has recently built for himself an elegant home at the top of Main Street hill, overlooking the city. ca When making a review of the business interests, JOHN GLASSON and incidentally the business men of a city, it is always a pleasure to be able to associate the names of early timers with the progressive and prosperous business men of the present time. It goes to show what push, energy, and enterprise will accomplish. No better example of this can be shown in Grass Valley than by referring to the subject of this sketch. John Glasson was born in London, England, December 5, 1851, and was taken by his parents to Cornwall, where he passed his younger days, and then came to America in 1864, coming direct to Grass Valley. A year later he went to Nevada City, where he learned the trade of moulder and remained for nine years, He then became employed in mercantile pursuits, and was with George Fletcher, who was then in the grocery and meat business here. Hethen became associated with John Polglase for eight years and later with Wm. Coleman for eleven years, the partnership terminating August 1, 1894, when the firm went out of the business. Mr. Glasson bought out the interests of the Grass Valley Gas Company in 1886 and putin an excellent electric light plant. He has also been largely and successfully interested in mining, and has at different times had stock in the Imperial, Centennial, Washington, Phoenix (now Osborn Hill), North Banner and North Star. During his long business career in Nevada County, Mr. Glasson has ever retained an undisputed reputation for honorable business methods and is prominently identified with the general progress of Grass Valley in the later years of its existence. ca Among the large grocery houses of Nevada County E. M. TAYLOR ay be named the firm of Dorsey & Co. of Grass Valley. This house, which was established in 1894, is owned by S. P. Dorsey and managed by E. M. Taylor, one of the most efficient commercial men on the Coast. Mr. Taylor is a native of California and was born near Grass Valley in 1854. He attended the high schoo] of Grass Valley and graduated from Heald’s Business College in 1873, immediately accepting a position of bookkeeper with R. Mercer, a merchant of Gold Hill, Nevada, remaining in said position until 1880, then engaging in business in San Francisco, and for ten years held positions as traveling man for a number of leading firms. He 4 Sey acted as traveling salesman for Adelsdorffer & Brandenstein, otherwise known as the Washington Manufacturing Company, for eight years. Early in 1894 be returned to Grass Valley to act as manager for Dorsey & Co., and by his knowledge of every detail of the business has established a reputation for Dorsey & Co, second to none. Mr. Taylor is a genial gentleman and is bound to make friends wherever he may reside. Ca One of the business enterprises which requires RICHARD NOELL good judgment in purchasing stock is the hardware business. That Mr. Richard Noell thoroughly understands this is evinced by the excellent trade he has built up in this city since first opening his hardware store in 1892. Richard Noell was born in England in November, 1839, and came to California in 1861. He located in Mariposa County, where he followed mining for three years. In 1869 he came to Nevada County and was engaged for a number of years as clerk in the grocery and provision store of Richard Roberts. He afterward marelacenta farm on the road leading from Grass Valley to Nevada City, and built here one of the cosiest rural homes in Nevada County. He served one term as county supervisor from district No. 2, with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. During 1892 he opened a hardware and mining supply store on Main Street and in this short time he has built up a flourishing business, Mr. Noell is a man of family and is public-spirited and enterprising on all occasions. His business is rapidly increasing and his well known integrity is an assurance that all business transacted with him will be carefully and judiciously done. ca James M. Lakenan, one of Grass Valley’s foremost citizens, is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, where he was born in 1833. Heattended school for a few years and at the age of fifteen began to learn the blacksmithing business. In 1853, when nineteen years old, Mr. Lakenan came to California, driving an ox team across the plains. He first located at Sacramento where he remained three years He then went to ‘‘God’s Country,” in the northern part of Nevada County, and mined between there and Omega for three years. After spending a year and a half at engineering at Nevada City, and a year at the Jennings Mine near Allison Ranch, he located in Grass Valley and engaged in the foundry business with M. C. Taylor, At the end of two years and a half the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Lakenan went East during the war. He purchased improved machinery, and upon his return in 1865, established the Grass Valley foundry on lower Main Street, which he has since conducted. He has led an active life and has been connected with every improvement inaugurated in this city. He was one of the organizers of the Eureka Fire Company, the first established in Grass Valley, and remained one of its active members until it disbanded, when he joined Protection Hose Company, No. 1. He was an alert fireman for fifteen years, when he J. M. LAKENAN