OT Life in 1900...

[rusty]

While reading through an old journal, I came across an interesting history for a poor fellow named E. D. Bullard, who's most notable achievement was probably that he sold the very first carbide mining lamp in California..

But this poor fellow did not have the best of luck...

Born in Worcester, he moved to Chicago in 1867.
The Great Chicago fire burned everything he owned ..

He moved to New York and got a job in a lumber mill making railroad ties.
The mill burned to the ground.

Then he moved to California.
In 1906 The San Francisco fire burned his business to the ground...

Think you have bad luck?

[john k]

Sounds like he had his share.   Before electricity, an awful lot of fires were due to careless use of the kerosene, and later, the gas lamps.    That was quite a feat to get in on the Chicago fire and the SanFrancisco earthquake and fire.  May be he had 30 nice and quiet years in between?  Wonder where he moved to after San Francisco? 

[Branson]

In turn of the last century Sacramento, the chief cause of fires was flaws in chimneys.   Maybe he moved here...

[johnsironsanctuary]

Yea, his close friends nicknamed him Lucky.