1850                Rooms over W. A. Woodruff’s Jewelry Store, San Francisco, California.[1]

1850 March 1.  The Weekly Pacific News.  (San Francisco, California.)  March 1, 1850, Vol. 1, No. 16, P. 2.

We perceive that the citizens of San Francisco have been mindful enough of ‘Home, sweet home,’ to give Mr. W. H. Defrees patronage enough to enable him to retire from his Daguerrean gallery.  He leaves it in the hands of Mr. Pierpoint, who is a skilful artist, and is capable of giving the public entire satisfaction.

[1] Pioneer Photographers Of The Far West A Biographical Dictionary 1840-1865.