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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 There is one subject in which the people of DR. R. M. HUNT California, and especially the younger generation, will never lose interest, and that is the lives and doings of the pioneers and men of early days. They have always been regarded as heroes by the world, and as time elapses that feeling is strengthened, and very properly so, as no where else has been found the peculiar and famous circumstances which made the California of the early days and the people what they are. Itis hence, with no apology, that we present in a leading position this sketch of the life of Dr. R. M. Hunt, Nevada City’s oldest physician, and one of its most esteemed citizens, Dr. Hunt was born in Herkimer County, New York, in 1828. He attended the common schools, and later worked in a machine shop, but did not learn the trade thoroughly; he also worked with a surveyor for three years. In 1847 he commenced to read medicine with his brother, Dr. Harvey Hunt, at Utica, New York, receiving his medical education at Geneva Medical College, N. Y., Castleton Medical College, Utica, N. Y., and Albany Medical College, N. Y. Immediately upon the completion of his professional studies, in 1850, he decided to come to the new El Dorado and test for himself the story of its golden wealth. His route was via the Isthmus of Panama. Upon arriving in California he started for the mines, taking the only means of trausportation offered by the times, namely, ox team from Sacramento to Caldwell’s Upper Store, afterwards Nevada City, arriving about the first of May, 1850. He was engaged in mining and lumbering for about two years, and then went into the drug business with the late E. F, Spence, on Commercial Street. Who is there who has enjoyed the Doctor’s acquaintance and friendship but entertain for him the utmost honor and regard? In Nevada City his name has for over a third of a century been a household word, and thousands of the sick and afflicted who have during that long period been administered to by him at one time or another, will ever reserve in memory’s storehouse one of the choicest nooks for Dr. Hunt. An intimate acquaintance with him for many years, enables the writer to speak knowingly of his superior abilities and strong personal characteristics. Possessed of a will power that for strength and firmness excels the combined powers of a dozen ordinary persons, he never wavers in any purpose or undertaking when once thoroughly convinced that he is in the right. Hisinfluence and assistance in helping to promote either public or private measures, have always been recognized and solicited, and when once his interest or sympathy was enlisted in any cause, he has always given his best efforts to secure the success desired. His integrity and uprightness are beyond reproach, and his friendship is of that true type that all who enjoy it appreciate its worth. Mentally and physically he is a splendid specimen of manhood, and although he has nearly reached the allotted term of three score years and ten, his vigors of body and mind are remarkably well preserved, and especially so when it is considered that he has been for over forty years engaged in a profession that of necessity is very wearing in its nature. The town was not named when he arrived, the camp being known as ‘‘Caldwell’s Store.” D. S. Baker is believed to be the only other person now living in Nevada City who was here at that time. Dr. Hunt has been in active practice continuously since 1853, and has been very successful, being regarded as one of the best physicians in the State. He has been Ilo. county physician since February, 1859, which position he has always ably filled. There is not in the county a man who more richly deserves the success he has met with, and none whose name and deeds will be longer remembered, ca Nat. P. Brown, senior editor and proprietor of the Nevada City Daily Transcript, is one of the oldest (not in age), best known and most popular mewspaper men on the Coast. Mr. Brown was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, December 14, 1834. He learned the printing business in the office of the Newburyport Herald, and in 1849, when but fourteen years of age, published a directory of the city, in connection with a gentleman named Dockham. Mr. Brown came to California on the ill-fated steamer ‘‘Tennessee,’’ which was wrecked at the mouth of the Golden Gate in February, 1853. Arriving in San Francisco without any money, youn Brown soon rustled a job, an on February 23, 1853, arrived in Nevada City. He took a \ : position on the Nevada Journal, and in 1854 returned to his home in the Eust with the intention of remaining. He was only absent three months when he returned and purchased an interest in the Nevada Weekly Journal, the firm then becoming Brown, Fuller & Co. On July 1, 1856, he purchased Fuller’s interest, Aaron A. Sargent and E. G. Waite owning the other half. While in San Francisco during this same year, preparing to see Mr. Fuller off, he received a telegram announcing the destruction of the office by fire, upon which there was no insurance. The plant was soon replaced, and in 1859 he sold his interest and went to the Republican convention, at Chicago, with A. A. Sargent. This was the convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President. Mr. Brown returned to Nevada City in 1860, and established the Daily Transcript, with Gen. James Allen, John P. Skelton and A. Casamayou, the firm being known as N. P. Brown & Co. Mr. Brown has been prominent in public affairs, and has always taken an active interest in any enterprise of benefit to the county. In 1856 he published the first directory of Nevada County. He was the Republican candidate for county treasurer in 1867, but was defeated with others on the ticket owing to the disaffection on account of the nomination of George C. Gorham. He served six years as city trustee and was elected chairman of the Republican county central N. P. BROWN