Edgar Rickard (1874-1951) was a mining engineer and lifelong confidant of U.S. President Herbert Hoover. He was the son of mining engineer Reuben Rickard, and the brother of Thomas Rickard, a mining engineer and one-time mayor of Berkeley, California. He was born on January 17, 1874 in Pontgibaud, France. For many years around the turn of the century, he was the editor of a mining journal in London.
Rickard died in San Francisco, California on Ja...
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Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1874
Date of death:
- Jan 21, 1951 (age 77 years)