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The life story of Louise Tevis Breckinridge Sharon gives insite into the impact of California gold on global banking and who directed it.
Francis G. Newlands (1848-1917) was a young San Francisco lawyer.
Early in his practice he had become an attorney for William Sharon,
a senator from Nevada from 1875 to 1882, who made a tremendous fortune
revitalizing and managing the rich Nevada Comstock Lode. In 1874
Newlands married Sharon's daughter. Following her death, in 1882,
and William Sharon's death, in 1885, Newlands became trustee
of Sharon's huge estate, was himself one of the heirs, and managed
major land holdings in California and Nevada.18481917, American
legislator, b. Natchez, Miss. After practicing law in San Francisco from
1870, he moved (1888) to Nevada. He became well known for his interest
in irrigation and reclamation and for his advocacy of free silver.
He was (18931903) U.S. Congressman from Nevada and served (190317)
as a Democrat in the U.S. Senate. He wrote the Newlands Act of 1913,
concerning mediation and conciliation in labor controversies, and the
Reclamation Act of 1902. He played an important role in the establishment
of the Federal Trade Commission (1914) and in preparing the way
for the Transportation Act of 1920.
It looks like Louise Tevis Breckinridge Sharon, was the grand
dowager with
control of the purse strings of her mother Susan's half of
the Tevis Estate
and whatever control came to her from her second husbands
portion of the
Sharon estate. (California and Nevada community property laws).
She would
also have had a great influence on her sister in-law Flora
Sharon
Fermor-Hesketh and guided the Fermor-Hesketh marriage of her
own daughter
Flora Breckinridge.
Her son John Caball Breckinridge seems to have been part of
Victorian
England without a fortune of his own and he didn't marry one.
He and his
marriage were kept in the shadows. I would suspect he had
a rough time of it.
The life story of Louise Tevis Breckinridge would give a unique
in site
into the impact of California gold on global banking and who
directed it.
Well you know all of this already.I will let you know if I
come across any
thing about Johns parents.
From Breckinridge researcher Gloria Hursey
John Cabell "Bunny" Breckinridge descent of the Tevis:
1..Robert Tevis & Martha Crow/Crowe
....2 Samuel Tevis & Sarah Jane Greathouse
........3 Lloyd Tevis & Susan Saunders
............4 Louise Tevis & (1st) John Witherspoon
Owen Breckinridge
................5 Lloyd Tevis Breckinridge
................5 John Cabell Breckinridge, Sr. & Adelaide
Murphy
....................6 John Cabell "Bunny" Breckinridge, Jr.
................5 Florence Louise Breckinridge & Thomas
Fermor-Hesketh
...................6 Thomas Fermor-Hesketh
...................6 Frederick "Freddie" Fermor-Hesketh &
Christian Mary
McEwan
...................6 Florence Fermor-Hesketh & (1) ? Revelstoke,
(2)
Derick/Arthur Lawson
...................6 John Fermor-Hesketh & (1) Patricia
?, (2) Joan Isabel Reveley (Lorelei)
...................6 Louise Fermor-Hesketh & Edmond Villiers
Minshull
Stockdale
............4 Louise Tevis & (2nd) Frederick William Sharon
(son of Senator
William Sharon)
................5 Henry William Tevis Sharon (said to have
died young)
Sharon descent:
1..William Sharon, Sr. & Susanna Kirk
....2 Senator William Sharon, Jr. & Maria Malloy
........3 Clara Adelaide Sharon & Francis Griffith Newlands
........3 Florence Sharon & Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh
............4 Thomas Fermor-Hesketh & Florence Louise
Breckinridge
(Florence is the daughter of John Witherspoon Owen
Breckinridge & 1st. spouse, Louise Tevis)
........3 Frederick William Sharon & Louise Tevis
(Louise
(Tevis) Sharon is the 1st spouse of John Witherspoon Owen
Breckinridge)
............4 Henry William Tevis Sharon (said to have died
young)
Sharon Estate Company, 74:385, 392
Sharon, Fred, 58:245
Sharon, Mrs. Frederick W., 25:238
OBITUARY -- John `Bunny' Breckinridge
"All have sinned and come short of the glory of God"
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