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| William E. Goldsmith was born in Massachusetts in 1825. Goldsmith left Boston and arrived in northern California with the Gold Rush in 1850. After mining for awhile, he established an engraving business in San Francisco. He died there in 1884.
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Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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