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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 3: Missouri, Louisiana, and California. 1850-1855. (search)
tnership for a bank in California under the title of Lucas, Turner & Co., in which my name was embraced as a pafirm already existing at St. Louis under the name of Lucas & Symonds. We discussed the matter very fully, and w York and California. Shortly after arrived James T. Lucas, Esq., the principal of the banking-firm in St. business; but, as Nisbet was comparatively young, Mr. Lucas wanted me to reside in San Francisco permanently, r, and James Reilly the teller. Already the bank of Lucas, Turner & Co. was established, and was engaged in sed I consented to go back to St. Louis, confer with Mr. Lucas and Captain Simonds, agree upon further details, away of Lancaster, Ohio, where my family still was. Mr. Lucas promptly agreed to the terms proposed, and furtherd instead of fifty thousand dollars, but I thought Mr. Lucas could stand it and would approve, which he did, thd we removed to it, paying rents thereafter to our Mr. Lucas instead of to Adams & Co. A man named Wright, duri
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 4: California. 1855-1857. (search)
those identical acceptances. But, years afterward, on settling with Hammond for the Custom-House contract when completed, there was a difference, and Smiley sued Lucas, Turner & Co. for money had and received for his benefit, being the identical forty thousand dollars herein explained, but he lost his case. Hammond, too, was aftthat at times it deprived me of sleep, and threatened to become chronic and serious; and I was also conscious that the first and original cause which had induced Mr. Lucas to establish the bank in California had ceased. I so reported to him, and that I really believed that he could use his money more safely and to better advantageremained on the 1st day of May, their balances would be transferred to the banking-house of Parrott & Co. Punctually to the day, this was done, and the business of Lucas, Turner & Co., of San Francisco, was discontinued, except the more difficult and disagreeable part of collecting their own moneys and selling the real estate, to w
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 5: California, New York, and Kansas. 1857-1859. (search)
Chapter 5: California, New York, and Kansas. 1857-1859. Having closed the bank at San Francisco on the 1st day of May, 1857, accompanied by my family I embarked in the steamer Sonora for Panama, crossed the isthmus, and sailed to New York, whence we proceeded to Lancaster, Ohio, where Mrs. Sherman and the family stopped, and I went on to St. Louis. I found there that some changes had been made in the parent-house, that Mr. Lucas had bought out his partner, Captain Symonds, and that the firm's name had been changed to that of James H. Lucas & Co. It had also been arranged that an office or branch was to be established in New York City, of which I was to have charge, on pretty much the same terms and conditions as in the previous San Francisco firm. Mr. Lucas, Major Turner, and I, agreed to meet in New York, soon after the 4th of July. We met accordingly at the Metropolitan Hotel, selected an office, No. 12 Wall Street, purchased the necessary furniture, and engaged a tell