William Hickman Dolman was born in Muskingum County, Ohio in 1830. In 1847, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he worked as a clerk in a store. In 1852 he went west to California to mine for gold. He first mined at Diamond Springs in California, then he moved to Nevada and mined for silver in Gold Hill; he drew up the first laws for Nevada's first organized mining district, called the "Columbia District." Dolman was in California when silver was discovered at the Comstock Lode; he made his way back to Nevada only to find that his claims had been "jumped." He died in 1913 in Portland, Oregon.
From the description of Reminiscences of William Hickman Dolman, 1907. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228740571
