If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to suppo→’s likely that the latter date is the correct one. His family immigrated to South Africa when he was quite young, where his father headed a small Jewish community. As a young man, he initially attempted to run his own business in Cape Town but quickly went bankrupt and started working at his father’s ship chandlery instead. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/07/the-forgotten-emperor-of-the-united-states-norton-i/ Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton http://www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com/articles/n/nortonJoshua.html http://www.molossia.org/norton.html http://www.emperornortonbaybridge.com/was-emperor-norton-insane.html http://www.emperornorton.org/1024/ChivalrousActs.htm http://cf.rims.org/Magazine/PrintTemplate.cfm?AID=3474 Image Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:His-Imperial-Majesty-Emperor-Norton-I-portrait-crop.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norton-10.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_San_Francisco#/media/File:SanFranciscoharbor1851c_sharp.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norton-8.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hon._Henry_A._Wise,_VA_-_NARA_-_529961.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_C_Breckinridge-04775-restored.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:General_Winfield_Scott.JPEG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emperor_Joshua_A._Norton_I.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norton-1.jpg https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton#/media/File:Norton-5.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norton-7.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emperor_Norton_lunching_with_Bummer_and_Lazarus_(cropped).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nort10d.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norton-3.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norton-9.jpg https://www.bigstockphoto.com/ru/image-154804361/stock-