Asbury thanks Thomas Crowley, among others, for help with sources for his book The Barbary Coast. This is perhaps the same Thomas Crowley who began as a whitehall boatman on San Francisco Bay, and went on to found Crowley Maritime.
http://www.crowley.com/About-Us/History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowley_Maritime
In 1967, Crowley sat for an oral history interview on his recollections of San Francisco's waterfront:
digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/crowley_thomas_waterfront__w.pdf
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