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A Few More Left: The Story Of Isaac Hillman
A Few More Left The Story Of Isaac Hillman Author:Henry Z Jones, Jr. This book is a biography and genealogical history of Isaac Hillman (1797-1879), a razor-strap manufacturer and patent medicine salesman who came from Troy, New York to California during the gold rush of 1849. His documented story chronicles his exciting life in rowdy San Francisco of the 1850s when he opened his famous Hillman's Temperance House... more » there to serve its citizens. How he ran a hotel where no liquor was ever served and still made medicinal cure-alls containing ten gallons of pure grain alcohol and opium is examined and enjoyed! He was active in founding several important Methodist churches both in Troy and in early California, and the good deeds and generous impact of Father Hillman were celebrated wherever he went. By the time of his death in 1879, Isaac Hillman was one of the most famous (and eccentric) pioneers of The City By The Bay. Besides Isaac's biography, the book contains added genealogical studies of not only the Hillman family, but also the Barkman, Barrackman, Bergmann, Hunt, Knight, Hollister, House, Redfern, Studley, Jones, Burton, Birdsall, Sweet, Muller, Miller, Dunschmann, Dibble, and Crippen families - fully documented.« less