Emperor Of The United States
True West|December 2016

Joshua Abraham Norton turned his lost fortune into an imperial legacy.

Dennis Peterson
Emperor Of The United States

In 1849, Joshua Abraham am Norton, born in England around 1818, arrived in San Francisco, California, from South Africa with a $30,000 inheritance and dreams of business successes. Those dreams came true.

He developed not one but many successful ventures—a retail store selling gold-mining supplies, a cigar factory, a rice mill and real estate. By 1855, his fortune was estimated at more than a quarter of a million dollars.

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