Having served four years on the court , including two as chief justice , Currey lost the 1867 election to Royal Sprague and retired to his home in San Francisco . When the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire left him homeless he moved to his estate north of Dixon in Solano County , in the Sacramento Valley . With his sons , Montgomery Scott Currey and Robert Spencer Currey , there he lived out his last years
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
John Currey