Thomas Nolan, the “father of the camp,”…
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

covered up. Trees were rooted up, and in fact the soil was washed out to bedrock in the track of the flood. It is quite remarkable that several people were not drowned. From the October 11, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise Tired Of Life A Well-Known Georgetown Miner Suicides. A Dream That Proved But Too True. Thomas Nolan, the “father of the camp,” as he is known in Georgetown, died from an overdose of morphine, taken with suicidal in- tent, on the morning of the 3rd instant. On the afternoon of the 2nd inst., he pro- cured a considerable quantity of morphine from ( 22 ) Dr. Brown, under the pretense that he wanted it for an old friend staying with him who was addicted to the morphine habit and was suffer- ing for the want of the drug. After giving Nolan the poison Dr. B. became suspicious that all was not right, and mentioned the subject to John A. Deemer and other friends of the deceased, who also were apprehensive that Tom had suicidal intentions, he having made a similar attempt once before, but no further action was taken.