https://www.nbcsandiego.com/investigations/San-Diego-Porn-Website-Linked-to-Russian-Arms-Smugglers-and-Mexican-Cartel-510221931.html Spreckels arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, at the age of nineteen. He was not able to speak English and had only one German Thaler in his pocket (75 cents in American currency after the sum was exchanged). However, he was able to acquire a job as a junior clerk at a German-owned grocery store by taking advantage of German ethnic networks in the community. In the first six months, he received only room and board but later earned four dollars per month. After one-and-a-half years, the shop-owner retired, allowing Spreckels to buy the grocery trade on credit. He paid off the purchase price in one year’s time and managed the business until 1855. https://rosamondpress.com/2019/02/24/adolph-spreckels/
there was an old board on cbts that had a collection of pretty horrific pics around cooper, beyond the stuff in the mansion with gloria. worth looking into if you are continuing this dig. . .or you could dig on bob weir, admitted bohemian grover, buddies with bill donavan, and mason