Left New York on the SS Northern Light, April 6, 1854;
Arrived on the SS Pacific, May 4, 1854
Theodore D. Judah arrived with his wife, child and servant. Traveling
with them were Miss H. B. Judah and Mrs. M.J. Judah.
The promoters of
the Sacramento Valley Rail Road brought Theodore D. Judah to California
from New York. The SVRR finished, he surveyed a route over the Sierra
Nevada and founded the Central Pacific Railroad Company with "The Big Four".
Judah organized
the railroad and earned the title "Father of the Transcontinental,"
but he died November 2 1863, so he never saw the beginnings of the laying
of the track. Judah Street in San Francisco's Sunset District was named
after Theodore D. Judah.
(Details corrected on October 8, 2005 with notes from Norman E. Tutorow,
Ph.D., author of The Governor: The Life and Legacy of Leland Stanford,
Arthur H. Clark Co., 2004, Spokane.)
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Theodore D. Judah
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Recommended Reading.
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The Judah Name in History
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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