Abstract
Justinian Caire reached San Francisco on March 29, 1851 (152 days from Le Havre, France, on the Aurelie, Capt. Gouin). Upon his arrival, he estab lished a hardware business on Washington Street, for the first two or three years in partnership with Claude Long. While supplying the miners of Cali fornia and the west with all types of mining equipment, he imported for the housewives such luxury articles as Sheffield plate from England, porcelains from France and dolls from Germany. It was in the commercial city of Genoa, Italy, that he had learned the hardware business and acquired the capital to start his own mercantile venture in the new world; and it was to Genoa that he returned briefly in 1854 to claim as his bride Maria-Cristina Sara Molfino, known then to her intimates, and, later, generally known, as Albina.
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