Born in Bavaria in 1840, Solomon Star was sent to live with his uncle in Cincinnati at age 10. But it wasn’t long after his 21st birthday that he picked up and headed west. He wound up in the Dakota Territory, in a Black Hills gold mining camp called Deadwood, and rose from hardware store operator to mayor, serving from 1884 to 1893. “He was very concerned about the welfare of the community,” says Jerry Bryant, research curator at the Adams Museum and House in Deadwood, South Dakota. “Most of us who research him call him Saint Sol.”
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