governor predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place birth_date order term_start article_title term_end name
george stoneman john mansfield robert waterman 30 august 1919 newark , new york black bear , siskiyou county , california 9 may 1833 16th lieutenant governor of california 1883 john daggett
 1887 john daggett
john daggett

john daggett -lrb- may 9 , 1833 -- august 30 , 1919 -rrb- served as the 16th lieutenant governor of california from 1883 to 1887 .
the site known as calico junction just south of the mining town of calico , california , was renamed daggett , california , in 1883 for lieutenant governor john daggett .
on may 18 , 1893 he was nominated by president grover cleveland to serve as superintendent of the united states mint at san francisco , a position he held until 1897 .
john is associated with the rare 1894-s barber dime .
one version of the story indicates that the 24 coins were struck june 9 , 1894 to provide a balance of two dollars and forty cents needed to close a bullion account at the mint june 30 , 1894 .
it was anticipated that more dimes would be struck that year , albeit two or three pieces were obtained by mint employees eager to have a new dime -lrb- with two or three going to chief coiner charles gorham -rrb- .
the balance were placed in coin bags , destined for circulation .
another story goes that john had 24 dimes struck as a special request for some visiting bankers .
according to daughter hallie as recounted much later , her father presented three coins each to seven people , with the remaining three given to her with instructions to save them until she was as old as he was , at which time she would be able to sell them for a good price .
apparently she spent one coin on ice cream on the way home ; this now well-worn coin is said to have sold for $ 2.40 in gimbel 's department store in new york city in 1957 and it sold for $ 34,100 at auction in 1981 .
much later hallie sold the remaining two dimes to california dealer earl parker , with one selling in 2007 for $ 1.9 m .
he died at siskiyou county , california in 1919 .
