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Sisters of fortune
being the true story of how three motherless sisters saved their home in New England and raised their younger brother while their father went fortune hunting in the California Gold Rush
By Heffernan, Nancy Coffey & Stecker, Ann Page
- ISBN
- 978-0-87451-650-0
- Publisher
- Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1993.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 15, 1993
In 1850, James Wilson Jr., a lawyer, adventurer, and Whig politician, resigned his seat in Congress to seek his fortune in California. He did not return for 12 years. Meanwhile, back in Keene, New Hampshire, his daughters Mary Elizabeth (age 24), Annie (17), and Charlotte (16) raised their young brother Jamie and do...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
