Timeline
A year later, Henry married Margaret Jane White, Sarah Ann’s younger sister.
With the family growing, Henry bought almost half of a city block and built a new, bigger home at the southwest corner of 1299 Van Ness Avenue (corner of Sutter Street).
Henry co-signed a note for $90,000 for a friend. When the note came due the friend was unable to pay. Instead the friend gave him a one-third interest in the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad Company. The company collapsed in June 1860.
Henry’s investment was lost, but it made him more determined than ever to make a railroad route out of San Francisco happen. That made him millions!
Sarah Ann was very happy to finally be with her husband after such a long absence. It was certainly worth it however. She loved her home but missed her family.
Henry and Sarah Ann decided to invite her family to come live with them permanently if they wanted to. Her father William, mother Jane and 2 sisters, Margery and Margaret moved from Clarksville, TN to join the Newhalls in their new home in California. They arrived just in time to be there for the birth of Henry and Sarah Ann’s first son, Henry Gregory Newhall.
The Whites lived the rest of their lives with Henry and the boys in San Francisco
In 1852, Henry bought a lot and built a house at 334 Beale Street on Rincon Hill in the South Park district of San Francisco, overlooking the San Francisco Bay.
Weeks later when another fire destroyed their company again, Mr. Hall decided to sell his half of the company to Henry as well. Henry was now the sole proprietor of Hall, Martin & Company which the following year he changed the name to H. M. Newhall and Company.
