Joshua Abraham Norton had an amazing life and was a titan among men. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the story of Norton's life in the 1800s, with his rise from humble circumstances to wealth and power to humility and back again, and learn what made him so amazing.AI-powered
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Joshua Abraham Norton (First American Emperor, Emperor Norton)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Joshua's Journey to America
Joshua's father set up a ship chantlery business in Cape Town, South Africa. Joshua also spent time living in Algoa Bay, which is down at the bottom of Africa. In 1846 he intended to immigrate to America and boarded a ship named the Sunbeam. He then returned to America, only this time he would go to the West Coast rather than the East Coast.
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