hello fellow twainians! perhaps one among you can help out this gentleman? this query was originally posted to H-WEST, so please respond directly to steve fox. thanks! kathy >> >> At 11:04 PM 9/13/00 -0500, you wrote: >> >>Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:00:24 -0700 (PDT) >> >>From: Steve Fox <[log in to unmask]> >> > >> >H-Westers, >> > >> > I just confirmed with a visit to Virginia City that my >> >g-g-grandfather, Frank Farrington, was a journalist in Reno/Virginia >> >City/Gold Hill at the same time as Sam Clements. Frank married an >> >actress, Mary Jane Smith, and they had a daughter, who also became an >> >actress, named Sierra Nevada Farrington. Anybody know of histories of the >> >acting companies that performed the Bay Area-Nevada circuit from 1860 to >> >1890s? I think Sierra's and her mother's traces may be in Oakland, where >> >they went when frank's body was returned from Liverpool in 1875. He was >> >just 39, there to find investors for Nevada mines. Thanks. Steve Fox NM >> >Endowment for the Humanities