Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-03-09
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 The Washington correspondent of the San Francisco Times, in writing up the notabilities of California who arc now in the National Capitol, gives the following bit of romance about one of the best known among them
 Among the Californians here, James M, Quinn, well known to San Francis cans, is probably the most celebrated, because there is bit of romance att tached to his history. It is briefly this ::
 Alter an absence of twenty years in Mexico and California, he returned 10 Charleston, South Carolina. his native place, and there found his mother and father deceased |; but an old and faithful negro woman, his nurse when q child. had been intrusted by his mother be- fore her death with the custody of q box to be delivered to her son James should lie ever return. Upon his ar rival in Charleston. about two years since, the old negroes. learning of him, sought him out, and deliverd the box which she had so long and faithfully preserved, and, upon examination of the contents, it was found to contain | papers. documents and correspondence, establishing clearly his legal right to a 1 large estate in Ireland, and to the title of Earl of Dunraven He immediately placed his papers in the hands of Hughs, Denver & Peck. law firm of this city, and MT. Hughs and Mir. Quinn will leave for Ireland in few days to take possession of the latters estate. Who among his old friends in San Francisco can fully realize that Jim Quinn, that used to be, is now and was the Earl of Dunraven?
 On this hint the Times speaks of MT. Quinn as follows:
 The strange freak of fortune narrated brings to the memory of many an old Californian the luck hombre who, after long years of the vicisitudes of life on the Pacific coast, has turned up the heir to the Earldom of Dunraven and the master of a splendid estate, the peer of the landed gentry of Ireland, and an important accession to the bri- liant circles of Hibernian nobility,
 James M. Quinn is native of Charleston, South Carolina and of Irish ancestry, He came to California in early days, and was particularly known at one time as proprietor of the Willows favorite resort afterward, absorbed in the rush of events. Fail- ing in this he went to Portland, Ore- gon' opened a public house, made an other failure of it, returned to San Francisco. and put out his shingle on Clay street at saloon called the "Es- marelda." Mir. Quinn was quite char actcr in his way. He generally attend ed the sessions of the Legislature ; was noted for his serupulous Hicety in cos tune, and certain reserved, distant, manner which, while it did not tend to increase the number of his casual friends, conveyed the idea that under his waistcoat beat a ''noble' heart, and that he entertained high estimate and lively appreciation of MT. Quinn, per sonally, and that sooner or later he would figure in some brighter or lof- tier sphere. About three years ago, becoming convinced that San Francisco was no longer the adventurer's ely sium that it had been in the more prim- tive days of Fl Dorado, and being troubled, withal, by d chro Sicimpecuni- osity = unfortunately too frequent among ''forty-niners" - Mir. Quinn went to New York, found his way thence to his Southern birthplace, and there learned the agreeable fact that he was an Earl and rich man.
 No doubt the new-made nobleman will support his honers with due dig nifty, and with now and thena pleasant reminiseence of his political experi- euces at Sacramento, and glance gen. erally at the plebian life on the shores of the Pacific.