Tom Nolan was, in appearance and habits,…
source date: 1889
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Tom Nolan was, in appearance and habits, a typical British soldier, of Irish extraction, aged about 56 years. After serving through the Crimean war, he went through the Sepoy mutiny in India, and afterwards served in the United States army. He was the oldest settler of Georgetown, and at one time he owned nearly the whole place, being an expert miner, but his fondness for strong drink, threatened to make him an object of charity in his old age, and he was too high spirited to beg. He had a heart as big as a mountain, and all that can be said against poor old Tom, is that “he was his own worst enemy.”