Norton did not disappear from the scene completely. He then lost a protracted lawsuit in which he tried to void his rice contract, and his local prominence faded. He bought a shipload of Peruvian rice at 12 cents per pound (26 ¢/kg) but more Peruvian ships arrived in port, causing the price to drop sharply to four cents per pound (8.8 ¢/kg). However, he was financially ruined following a failed bid to corner the rice market during a shortage prompted by a famine in China.
For the first few years after arriving in San Francisco, Norton made a successful living as a commodities trader and real estate speculator. Leaving Cape Town, probably in late 1845, he arrived in Boston, via Liverpool, in March 1846 and San Francisco in late 1849. Norton was born in England but spent most of his early life in South Africa. In 1863, after Napoleon III invaded Mexico, he took the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico". Joshua Abraham Norton (Febru – January 8, 1880), known as Emperor Norton, was a resident of San Francisco, California, who in 1859 proclaimed himself "Norton I., Emperor of the United States".
citizenįirst Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Colma, CaliforniaĮnglish later naturalized as a U.S.
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