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Captain Jonathan R. Davis was an American gold rush prospector. [1] On December 19, 1854, he single-handedly killed eleven armed outlaws at Rocky Canyon near Sacramento, California, using two Colt revolvers and a Bowie knife. [2] This episode became one of the deadliest small arms engagements in American history involving one man against ...
Mayor of Sacramento, secretary of the State of California Moses Rodgers: c. 1835–1900 Missouri, U.S. African American mining engineer, metallurgist: John Howell Sears: 1823–1907 Sullivan County, New York, U.S. prospector early pioneer of Searsville and La Honda [13] William Tecumseh Sherman: 1820–1891 Lancaster, Ohio, U.S.
In July 1849, Johnson left Iowa for the Gold Rush in California, where he briefly employed himself as a gold prospector, and later as a mule train driver. Johnson restarted his law career in Sacramento, California by founding a law practice with Ferris Forman, and was elected as Sacramento City Attorney in 1850. [3]
John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, [1] [2] was a Swiss immigrant who became a Mexican and later an American citizen, known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital.
Within a few years after the end of the gold rush, in 1863, the groundbreaking ceremony for the western leg of the First transcontinental railroad was held in Sacramento. The line's completion, some six years later, financed in part with Gold Rush money, [ 163 ] united California with the central and eastern United States.
James Wilson Marshall (October 8, 1810 – August 10, 1885) was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, who on January 24, 1848, reported the finding of gold at Coloma, California, a small settlement on the American River about 36 miles northeast of Sacramento. His discovery was the impetus for the California Gold Rush.
Goldie soon moved with the, now five children to Sacramento. [2] [1] Archie retreated to the Sierra Nevada mountains where he would spend the rest of is life, alone. Initially, he found work as a cowboy and prospector. [2] Upon the arrival of the World War 1 draft, Wright registered as "Monte Wolfe, Prospector” [2]
Helen Jane Wiser was born in Springfield, Illinois.Her father, Hiram Wiser, was a prospector who moved his family to Sacramento, California, where she attended school.. On April 6, 1873, she married Archibald Stewart and moved to Pony Springs near Pioche, Nevada.