George Derby House, 4017 Harney Street, San Diego, San Diego County, CA

Significance: This house was the home of Lt. George Horatio Derby, 1835-55, when, writing (during his leisure time) for the San Diego Herald under the pen names of John P. Squibb and John Pheonix, he introduced a form of Western humor which caused him to be recognized as the "father of the mid-19th century school of far Western humor and America's first wit," which greatly influenced writers such as Mark Twain and Lewis Grayland Clark...

Survey number: HABS CA-430

Building/structure dates: 1851 Initial Construction

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1933 - 1970

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