Joshua Abraham Norton (First American Emperor, Emperor Norton)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Joshua Norton and Company
Joshua Norton and Company was a real estate and import business in San Francisco. Joshua would have been 33 years old at the time of the photo, and you can see that he apparently had premature male pattern baldness. He does look like a well-to-do 1851 businessman.
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Transcript
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.
