San Francisco has always been a boomtown ...

where daring fortune hunters came to make and their leave their mark. Meet William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr.

The enterprising immigrant from the Caribbean did awfully well for himself and became one of the city's founders.

That story is on a par with today's tech moguls. Today the gentleman has an alley named for him.

I passed Leidesdorff's statue in the financial district while Walking San Francisco.