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In 1851 the City of Stockton received its charter from the State of California. ... In 1870 the Census Bureau reported Stockton's population as 87.6% white and 10.7% ...
It was constructed as the Insane Asylum of California at Stockton in 1851. It was on 100 acres (0.40 km 2) of land donated by Captain Charles Maria Weber.The legislature at the time felt that existing hospitals were incapable of caring for the large numbers of people who suffered from mental and emotional conditions as a result of the California Gold Rush, and authorized the creation of the ...
87,445. The 1850 United States census was the seventh decennial United States Census Conducted by the Census Office, it determined the resident population of the United States to be 23,191,876—an increase of 35.9 percent over the 17,069,453 persons enumerated during the 1840 census. The total population included 3,204,313 enslaved people.
Website. www.pacific.edu. University of the Pacific (Pacific or UOP) is a private university originally founded as a Methodist -affiliated university with its main campus in Stockton, California, and graduate campuses in San Francisco and Sacramento. It was the first university in the state of California, [4] the first independent coeducational ...
Rancho Campo de los Franceses. Coordinates: 38.020°N 121.230°W. Carlos Maria Weber founded Stockton when he acquired and settled Rancho Campo de los Franceses. Rancho Campo de los Franceses was a 48,747-acre (197.27 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Joaquin County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to ...
Temple Israel Cemetery (1851), East Acacia Street between North Pilgrim and North Union streets. In 1851, the cemetery site was donated to the Jewish community by Captain Charles Maria Weber. The site is the oldest Jewish cemetery in continuous use in California and west of the Rocky Mountains, and is #765 on the Office of Historic Preservation ...
A corrected California 1850 census would go from 92,597 (the uncorrected "official number") to over 120,000. The 1850 U.S. census, the first census that included the names and sex of everyone in a family, showed only 7,019 females, with 4,165 non-Indian females older than 15 in the state. [58]
Occupation. Architect, politician. Samuel Purdy (1819 – February 17, 1882) [1][2] was an American politician. As a Democrat, he served as the third Lieutenant Governor of California from 1852 to 1856. [3] He also was the first mayor of Stockton, California, where he was in office from 1850 to 1851. [4]