First PA – EMILIA NAGHEL – listed in SAN DIEGO Census

1850 – The “mysterious” Mrs. EMILIA NAGHEL (aka. Mrs. Ann Emily Sinclair Nagel of…, Maryland?), age 18, is shown as born in PORTUGAL *and* the wife of shipmaster Capt. Samuel M. Nagel (b. 1817 in Baltimore, Maryland?) and is the FIRST local “Portuguese” listed in the (first) 1850 San Diego U.S. Census here. – *Editorial Note: She died of an “enlarged heart” in 1870, in San Francisco, California.

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