Third Mayor of San Francisco
Dr. Harris sailed from New York on February 9, 1849 enroute to Panama. He
arrived there on March 7 and had to wait two-and-a-half months for a steamer
to San Francisco.
Few sailing vessels were landing at Panama during that
time. Those that did left crowded with passengers at extravagant prices.
Dr. Harris was fortunate book passage on the S.S. Panama, which arrived
in San Francisco on June 6, 1849. By virtue of the fact that he arrived
on these shores prior to January 1, 1850, he became a member of the "Society
of California Pioneers."
After forty days of gold-digging at Smith's
Bar, Dr. Harris returned to San Francisco to set up a drug business at the
corner of Clay and Montgomery with goods he had previously shipped from
New York.
Even though he lost his business to the disasterous fires that
claimed early San Francisco, he perserved and was elected mayor of San Francisco
in September 1851, and City Comptroller in 1853.
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Stephen R. Harris, M.D.
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Recommended Reading.
Books are available at Amazon.com . . . just click on a cover.
San Francisco: Port of Gold
William Martin Camp
An image of the cover of Port of Gold is not available. However, I have this book and it is a well-written history of San Francisco penned by a Berkeley author in 1947. It opens with a list of the Officers of the Society of California Pioneers. Some illustrations are included in the book.
The Annals of San Francisco by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, James Nisbet
Originally published 1855. Many illustrations.
The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
Herbert Asbury
Asbury's history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849..."
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