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This is a picture of Jesse Turner Hanks and Mary Jane Olmsted (1837-1914), an author and suffragette. She was the daughter of Richard Montgomery Olmsted and Hester Janet Mix. Jesse was the son of Achsah Loomis Turner & Edmund Hanks of "Hanks Hill", Mansfield, Connecticut. He became superintendant of the Sierra Buttes Mind near Sierra City (or Downieville), CA, owned by William Letts Oliver & earned $5,000 per year in gold, a fortune for the time, but this was not surprising, as the mine produced more gold than any other in the country in it's day.
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