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