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| x John Sutter |
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Sacramento | Switzerland | Jun 18, 1880 | Feb 15, 1803 | Male |
John Augustus Sutter (February 15, 1803 – June 18, 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the mill making team at Sutter's Mill, and for...
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| x Tom Bell | Oct 4, 1856 | 1825 | Male |
Tom Bell (1825 – October 4, 1856) was a western outlaw and physician known as the "Outlaw Doc". He is the first outlaw to organize a stagecoach robbery in the United States.
Born Thomas J. Hodges in Rome, Tennessee he saw action in the Mexican...
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| x Charles H. Bennett |
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Salem | Dec 7, 1855 | Aug 18, 1811 | Male |
Charles H. Bennett (18 August 1811 – 7 December 1855) was present at the discovery of gold that initiated the California gold rush in January 1848. Earlier he served in the United States Army and was captain of a militia unit of the Provisional...
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| x William Bernard | San Francisco | Male |
William Bernard was a 19th-century sailor, miner and resident of San Francisco, better known as the notorious "Barnacle Bill" of American yore whose fictional exploits are chronicled in the ribald drinking song "Barnacle Bill the Sailor" — itself...
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| x Samuel Brannan |
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Maine | Saco | May 14, 1889 | Mar 2, 1819 | Male |
Sam Brannan (1819 - 1889) was born in Maine.
In 1846, Brannan arrived in San Francisco on the chartered ship, The Brooklyn, with an antiquated printing press, approximately two hundred fifty Latter Day Saints and a complete flour mill. He planned...
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| x James H. Carson | 1853 | 1821 | Male |
James H. Carson (1821 – 1853), a Second Sergeant in the US Army, boarded the U.S. Lexington with his regiment and set sail for California in 1846. After passing through Rio de Janeiro and Cape Horn, Carson reached Monterey, California in January...
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| x Caleb Greenwood | 1850 | 1763 | Male |
Caleb Greenwood (c. 1763 – c. 1850) was a Western U.S. fur trapper and trail guide. Born in Virginia, Greenwood took part in trapping expeditions organized by associates of John Jacob Astor in 1810 and by Manuel Lisa in 1812-1813. In 1815 he trapped...
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| x John Wesley Hillman |
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Albany | Mar 19, 1915 | Mar 29, 1832 | Male |
John Wesley Hillman (March 29, 1832 – March 19, 1915) was an American prospector during the California Gold Rush and explorer who was among the first European Americans to see Crater Lake in the U.S. state of Oregon.
Hillman was born in Albany, New...
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| x James W. Marshall |
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Hopewell | Aug 10, 1885 | Oct 8, 1810 | Male |
James Wilson Marshall (October 8, 1810 - August 10, 1885) was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, whose discovery of gold in the American River in California on January 24, 1848 set the stage for the California Gold Rush. Marshall was forced...
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| x John Templeton McCarty | Feb 4, 1860 | Aug 28, 1828 | Male |
John Templeton McCarty (August 28, 1828 – February 4, 1860) was one of the "Immortal Six" (founders of the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta), a Mason and an unsuccessful candidate for the early California State Legislature, losing to future U.S....
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| x Mary Jane Megquier | 1899 | 1813 |
Mary Jane Megquier (1813-1899) participated in the California Gold Rush. In 1849, she travelled with her husband from Turner, Maine to San Francisco via Panama. In San Francisco, she ran a boarding house and enjoyed the freer society. Her writings...
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| x Darius Ogden Mills |
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California | North Salem | Jan 3, 1910 | Sep 25, 1825 | Male |
Darius Ogden Mills (September 25, 1825 – January 3, 1910) was a prominent American banker, philanthropist and, for a time, California's wealthiest citizen.
He was born in North Salem, New York and his early career was as a bank clerk and retailer....
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| x Joaquin Murrieta |
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Quillota | 1853 | 1829 | Male |
Joaquin Murrieta (sometimes spelled Murieta or Murietta) (1829–ca. 1853), also called the Mexican or Chilean Robin Hood or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a semi-legendary figure in California during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. He was...
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| x Jack Powers |
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Nov 1860 | 1827 |
Jack Powers (John Power) (1827 – November 1860) was an Irish-American gambler, outlaw, highway-robber, gang leader, and murderer in southern and central California during the Gold Rush era. For a time in the 1850s, robberies and murders committed by...
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| x Charles E Sexey | Jul 24, 1888 | Mar 1818 | Male |
Charles Eamer Sexey (March 1818 – July 24, 1888) was an English trader, merchant adventurer and gold rush pioneer. He first visited New Zealand as a young man where he farmed and traded. In 1849 he travelled to San Francisco, took part in the Gold...
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| x James Calvin Sly |
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Aug 31, 1864 | Aug 8, 1807 | Male |
James C. Sly (August 8, 1807 – August 31, 1864) was a Mormon pioneer, member of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican-American War, scout for early west trails used during the California gold rush, journal keeper in 1848 and 1849, early US western...
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