In 1847, Zachariah Jones, a fiery preacher from Tennessee who was known as a fighting man, opened the “Half Moon House”, which became the first established hotel in the City of San José. Later in his life, Zachariah Jones was admitted to an insane asylum in Stockton, California.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
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