Tag: stolen
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A. P. Molitor, Assayer
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Read more: A. P. Molitor, AssayerAGOSTHON P. MOLITORSTEPHEN F. MOLITORSan Francisco, California, San Diego, California, Deadwood, Dakota Territory Agosthon Molitor began his work as an assayer in California in 1851 in partnership with fellow Hungarians Samuel Wass and Charles Uznay in thefirm of Wass, Molitor and Company, one of the most important private coinage ventures in the west. He left…
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Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company
Read more: Gould & Curry Silver Mining CompanyThe Gould & Curry Silver Mining Company’s heydays were the years 1863-64, just before statehood. Incorporated a few years earlier, the founder of the original claim in the Comstock was Albert Gould, who unwisely sold his share of half the mine for a pittance and died years later and nearly broke in Reno. The mine…
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Conrad Wiegand, Assayer
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Read more: Conrad Wiegand, AssayerWiegand was a notorious assayer, who got his start at the U.S. Mint in San Francisco. His behavior was so disruptive, and assays of questionable quality (they often did not check or agree), that a mint employee once wrote to President Lincoln asking for his dismissal, and the letters are still on file in the…
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Blake & Co, Assayers
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Read more: Blake & Co, AssayersThe following information on F.W. Blake is taken from Stack’s catalog for Part XXI of the John J. Ford, J. Collection, October 2007, which in turn is attributed to A Historical Description and Commercial Directory of Owyhee County, Idaho (January 1898, Silver City Idaho), p. 101: Owyhee Avalanche (1898). Blake, Mr. F.W., was born in…
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Knight and Company, Assayers
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Read more: Knight and Company, AssayersKnight formed a partnership with experienced California and Nevada assayer H. Harris in Marysville. Knight’s early work in Unionville, Nevada Territory, gave him the experience necessary to run his own assay business, and he bought Harris’ Marysville Pioneer Assay Office in 1863 after spending part of a year in Unionville. Harris went on to establish…