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Surnames: Moran
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These references to Moran are a little earlier in dates, but they may be connected:
From the 1862 Nevada Territory Directory
Virginia City-J. Moran,
Asst. Engineer Central Mill
From the Journals of Alf Doten, newspaperman
September 18, 1868,
Virginia City
"a miner named Moran fell from the 800 foot level of the Yellow Jacket mine, fell 65
feet down the shaft, to the bottom, so badly injured he died in half an hour. I saw him
before he died insensible and grasping for breathe, head badly bruised and cut and left
leg and shoulder badly broken up. Single man about 30 years old, Irish. He stepped into
the shaft thinking probably that the cage was there.
From the Territorial Enterprise Newspaper
April 5, 1875 –
Arrivals
Jas. Moran arrived in Virginia City and rented room at the International Hotel.