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William Lysander Adams (1821-1906) —
also known as William L. Adams; Will Adams —
of Yamhill
County, Ore.; Forest Grove, Washington
County, Ore.; Hood River, Hood River
County, Ore.
Born in Painesville, Lake
County, Ohio, February
5, 1821.
Republican. School
teacher; went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; preacher;
newspaper
editor; probate judge in Oregon, 1850; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1860; physician.
Died in Hood River, Hood River
County, Ore., April
26, 1906 (age 85 years, 80
days).
Interment at Idlewild
Cemetery, Hood River, Ore.
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Benjamin Parke Avery (1828-1875) —
also known as Benjamin P. Avery —
of California.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
11, 1828.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; newspaper
editor; U.S. Minister to China, 1874-75, died in office 1875.
Died, of kidney
disease, in Peking (Beijing), China,
November
8, 1875 (age 46 years, 362
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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George Washington Baker (1829-1896) —
also known as George W. Baker —
of Athens, Athens
County, Ohio.
Born near Athens, Athens
County, Ohio, May 2,
1829.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; colonel in the
Union Army during the Civil War; mayor of
Athens, Ohio, 1867-68; postmaster at Athens,
Ohio, 1889-91.
Died July 12,
1896 (age 67 years, 71
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Homer Griswold Barber (1830-1909) —
also known as Homer G. Barber —
of Vermontville, Eaton
County, Mich.
Born in Benson, Rutland
County, Vt., November
25, 1830.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
banker;
member of Michigan
state senate 20th District, 1871-72.
Congregationalist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in Vermontville, Eaton
County, Mich., March
15, 1909 (age 78 years, 110
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Vermontville, Mich.
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Julius Solon Barber (1824-1908) —
also known as Julius S. Barber —
of Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich.
Born in Benson, Rutland
County, Vt., April 6,
1824.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1867; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Branch County 2nd District,
1867-68; postmaster at Coldwater,
Mich., 1873-82.
Episcopalian.
Died in Coldwater, Branch
County, Mich., January
18, 1908 (age 83 years, 287
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Coldwater, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Barber and Cynthia (Dyer) Barber; married 1854 to
Emeline (Chalmers) Baker. |
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Record of Branch County (1906) |
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Washington Montgomery Bartlett (1824-1887) —
also known as Washington Bartlett —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., February
29, 1824.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer; journalist;
newspaper
publisher; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1883-87; Governor of
California, 1887; died in office 1887.
Died in Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif., September
12, 1887 (age 63 years, 0
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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William B. Beeson (d. 1872) —
of Niles, Berrien
County, Mich.
Physician;
merchant;
village
president of Niles, Michigan, 1841; went to California for the
1849 Gold Rush; member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1859.
Died in 1872.
Burial location unknown.
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Frederick H. Billings (1823-1890) —
Born in Royalton, Windsor
County, Vt., September
27, 1823.
Republican. Vermont
secretary of civil and military affairs, 1846-48; lawyer;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; president, Northern
Pacific Railway,
1879-81; delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1880.
Died in Woodstock, Windsor
County, Vt., September
30, 1890 (age 67 years, 3
days).
Interment at River
Street Cemetery, Woodstock, Vt.
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Sempronius Hamilton Boyd (1828-1894) —
also known as Sempronius H. Boyd; Pony
Boyd —
of Springfield, Greene
County, Mo.
Born in Williamson
County, Tenn., May 28,
1828.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer; Greene
County Clerk of Court, 1854-56; mayor
of Springfield, Mo., 1858-60; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 4th District, 1863-65, 1869-71;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1864;
member of Republican
National Committee from Missouri, 1864-68; district judge in
Missouri 14th District, 1865; U.S. Minister to Siam, 1891-92.
Died in Springfield, Greene
County, Mo., June 22,
1894 (age 66 years, 25
days).
Interment at Hazelwood
Cemetery, Springfield, Mo.
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David Colbreth Broderick (1820-1859) —
also known as David C. Broderick —
of New York; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 1820.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1846; went to California for the
1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1850-52; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1851-52; U.S.
Senator from California, 1857-59; died in office 1859.
Irish
ancestry.
Mortally
wounded in a duel on
September 13, 1859 with David
S. Terry, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, and died
in San
Francisco, Calif., September
16, 1859 (age 39 years, 224
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment in 1942 at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Charles Henry Bryan (1822-1877) —
also known as Charles H. Bryan —
of Marysville, Yuba
County, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in Ellicottville, Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., October
20, 1822.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1854; justice of
California state supreme court, 1854-55; delegate
to Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863.
Died in Carson
City, Nev., May 14,
1877 (age 54 years, 206
days).
Interment at Lone
Mountain Cemetery, Carson City, Nev.
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Ephraim Willard Burr (1809-1894) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Warren, Bristol
County, R.I., March 7,
1809.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; banker; insurance
executive; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1856-59.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., July 20,
1894 (age 85 years, 135
days).
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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John Goulder Campbell (1827-1903) —
also known as John G. Campbell —
of Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland,
June
25, 1827.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
hotel
owner; member of Arizona
territorial House of Representatives, 1868-74; Yavapai
County Supervisor; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arizona Territory, 1879-81; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Arizona Territory, 1880
(not seated).
Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Prescott, Yavapai
County, Ariz., December
22, 1903 (age 76 years, 180
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Prescott, Ariz.
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George Quayle Cannon (1827-1901) —
also known as George Q. Cannon —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Liverpool, England,
January
11, 1827.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member
Utah territorial council, 1865-66, 1869-72; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Utah Territory, 1873-81; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Utah Territory, 1880
(not seated).
Mormon.
Had five wives and 32 children; spent six months in federal penitentiary
for cohabitation.
Died in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., April
12, 1901 (age 74 years, 91
days).
Interment at Salt
Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Horace Walpole Carpentier (1824-1918) —
also known as Horace W. Carpentier —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Galway, Saratoga
County, N.Y., 1824.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer; banker;
member of California
state assembly 5th District, 1853, 1853-54; mayor
of Oakland, Calif., 1854-55; president of telegraph
companies which developed a system of telegraph
lines in California and connecting to the Eastern U.S.
Philanthropist; also left more than $1 million to Columbia University
and to Barnard College on his death in 1918.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
31, 1918 (age about 93
years).
Interment somewhere
in Galway, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of James Carpenter and Henrietta Carpenter. |
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David Williams Cheesman (1824-1884) —
also known as D. W. Cheesman —
of Oroville, Butte
County, Calif.
Born in Hagerstown, Wayne
County, Ind., December
22, 1824.
Republican. Lawyer;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1859; delegate to Republican National
Convention from California, 1860;
treasurer, U.S. Mint at San Francisco, 1861.
Died November
24, 1884 (age 59 years, 338
days).
Original interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment to unknown location.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard Williams Cheesman and Hannah (Rowand) Cheesman; married 1849 to Urania
K. Macy. |
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Daniel Choate (1828-1899) —
of San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif.
Born in China, Kennebec
County, Maine, September
9, 1828.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
real
estate developer; postmaster at San
Diego, Calif., 1876-81.
Methodist.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., 1899
(age about
70 years).
Interment at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, San Diego, Calif.
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William Judson Clark (b. 1825) —
also known as William J. Clark —
of Southington, Hartford
County, Conn.
Born in Southington, Hartford
County, Conn., August
19, 1825.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; nut and bolt
manufacturer; member of Connecticut
state senate 2nd District, 1883-84.
Member, Union
League; Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell (1832-1915) —
also known as Jeremiah V. Cockrell —
of Sherman, Grayson
County, Tex.; Anson, Jones
County, Tex.; Abilene, Taylor
County, Tex.
Born near Warrensburg, Johnson
County, Mo., May 7,
1832.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; district judge
in Texas, 1885-93; U.S.
Representative from Texas 13th District, 1893-97.
Slaveowner.
Died in Abilene, Taylor
County, Tex., March
18, 1915 (age 82 years, 315
days).
Interment at Abilene Municipal Cemetery, Abilene, Tex.
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Cornelius Cole (1822-1924) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Lodi, Seneca
County, N.Y., September
17, 1822.
Republican. Lawyer;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of Republican
National Committee from California, 1856-60; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1863-65; U.S.
Senator from California, 1867-73.
Died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., November
3, 1924 (age 102 years,
47 days).
Interment at Hollywood
Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.
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John Conness (1821-1909) —
of El
Dorado County, Calif.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.
Born in Abbey, County Galway, Ireland,
September
22, 1821.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; went to California for the
1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly, 1853-55, 1860-62 (12th District 1853-54, 18th
District 1854-55, 1860-62); Union Democratic candidate for Governor of
California, 1861; U.S.
Senator from California, 1863-69.
Died in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., January
10, 1909 (age 87 years, 110
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Dorchester, Boston, Mass.
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Peter P. Cornen (1815-1893) —
of Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March
13, 1815.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; real estate
business; oil
producer; banker;
member of Connecticut
state senate 11th District, 1867; member of Connecticut
state house of representatives from Ridgefield, 1871.
Episcopalian.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died March
23, 1893 (age 78 years, 10
days).
Interment at Scott's Cemetery, Ridgefield, Conn.
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Aylett Rains Cotton (1826-1912) —
also known as Aylett R. Cotton —
of Lyons, Clinton
County, Iowa; Clinton, Clinton
County, Iowa; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Austintown, Mahoning
County, Ohio, November
29, 1826.
Republican. Lawyer;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; Clinton
County Judge, 1851-53; Clinton
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1854; mayor of Lyons, Iowa, 1855-57;
delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention 23rd District, 1857;
member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1868-71; Speaker of
the Iowa State House of Representatives, 1870-71; U.S.
Representative from Iowa 2nd District, 1871-75.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., October
30, 1912 (age 85 years, 336
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Alexander Parker Crittenden (1816-1870) —
also known as Alexander P. Crittenden —
of Santa
Clara County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky., January
14, 1816.
Lawyer;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly, 1849-51, 1852-53 (Los Angeles District 1849-51,
5th District 1852-53).
Shot
and mortally
wounded by his ex-lover, Laura D. Fair, on board a
ferry boat in San Francisco Bay, and died two days later, in San
Francisco, Calif., November
5, 1870 (age 54 years, 295
days). Fair was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death, but
the state supreme court ordered a new trial, and she was acquitted.
Interment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Charles Crocker (1822-1888) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born in Troy, Rensselaer
County, N.Y., September
16, 1822.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
banker;
member of California
state assembly 9th District, 1861-62; one of the builders of the
Central Pacific Railroad;
first president of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Died in Monterey, Monterey
County, Calif., August
14, 1888 (age 65 years, 333
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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James McGrew Cunnard (b. 1831) —
also known as Mike Cunnard —
of California.
Born in Guernsey
County, Ohio, December
16, 1831.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 24th District, 1862-63.
Burial location unknown.
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John Currey (b. 1814) —
of Peekskill, Westchester
County, N.Y.; Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Westchester
County, N.Y., October
4, 1814.
Democrat. Lawyer;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; Anti-Lecompton
Democratic candidate for Governor of
California, 1859; justice of
California state supreme court, 1864-.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Currey and Reban (Ward) Currey; married 1845 to
Cornelia Elizabeth Scott; married 1881 to
Cornelia Ferris. |
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Sherman Day (1806-1884) —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., February
11, 1806.
Engineer;
historian;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1855-56; U.S. Surveyor General of California,
1868-71.
Died in Berkeley, Alameda
County, Calif., December
14, 1884 (age 78 years, 307
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Pedro de Alcantara Brazileiro de Saisset
(1829-1902) —
also known as Pedro de Saisset —
of San Jose, Santa
Clara County, Calif.
Born in Paris, France,
1829.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; Consular
Agent for France in San
Jose, Calif., 1886-1902.
French
ancestry.
Died in San Jose, Santa Clara
County, Calif., March
16, 1902 (age about 72
years).
Entombed at Santa
Clara Mission Cemetery, Santa Clara, Calif.
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Isaac Harding Duval (1824-1902) —
also known as Isaac H. Duval —
of Wellsburg, Brooke
County, W.Va.
Born in Wellsburg, Brooke
County, Va. (now W.Va.), September
1, 1824.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; general
in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of West
Virginia state senate 1st District, 1866-67; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1869-71; U.S.
Collector of Internal Revenue for the 1st West Virginia District,
1879; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates 1st District, 1887-90;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from West
Virginia, 1896.
Died in Wellsburg, Brooke
County, W.Va., July 10,
1902 (age 77 years, 312
days).
Interment at Brooke
Cemetery, Wellsburg, W.Va.
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Joseph Palmer Dyer (1827-1891) —
also known as J. P. Dyer —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.
Born January
29, 1827.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; mayor
of Sacramento, Calif., 1857.
Died July 7,
1891 (age 64 years, 159
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of George Dyer and Jane (Pendleton) Dyer; married, October
5, 1853, to Deborah Curtis; great-grandnephew of Nathan
Pendleton (1754-1841); first cousin twice removed of Nathan
Pendleton (1779-1827); second cousin of Calvin
Crane Pendleton; second cousin once removed of Charles
Marsh Pendleton, James
Monroe Pendleton and Cyrus
Henry Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of Daniel
Burrows; third cousin of Edward
Wheeler Pendleton, Charles
Henry Pendleton, Harris
Pendleton, Chauncey
C. Pendleton, Nathan
William Pendleton, James
Pendleton and Eckford
Gustavus Pendleton; third cousin once removed of Lorenzo
Burrows, Cornelius
Welles Pendleton and Claudius
Victor Pendleton; fourth cousin of Enoch
C. Chapman. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Cornell
family of New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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John Edwards (1805-1894) —
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., October
24, 1805.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1845-46; went to California
for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of Indiana
state senate, 1853; member of Iowa
state house of representatives, 1856-61; Speaker of
the Iowa State House of Representatives, 1859-61; delegate
to Iowa state constitutional convention 9th District, 1857;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 3rd District, 1871-73.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 8,
1894 (age 88 years, 166
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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James Graham Fair (1831-1894) —
also known as James G. Fair —
of Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), December
3, 1831.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; real estate
business; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1881-87; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Nevada, 1888
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., December
28, 1894 (age 63 years, 25
days).
Originally entombed at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
re-entombed at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, Calif.
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David Fairchild (c.1791-1866) —
of California.
Born about 1791.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 18th District, 1860-61.
Died September
17, 1866 (age about 75
years).
Interment at Pilot
Hill Cemetery, Pilot Hill, Calif.
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Stephen Johnson Field (1816-1899) —
also known as Stephen J. Field —
of Yuba
County, Calif.
Born in Haddam, Middlesex
County, Conn., November
4, 1816.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 14th District, 1851-52; justice of
California state supreme court, 1857-63; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1859-63; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1863-97; arrested
in San Francisco, August 16, 1889, on charges
of being party to the alleged murder
of David
S. Terry; released on bail; ultimately the killing was ruled to
be justifiable homicide.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 9,
1899 (age 82 years, 156
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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John H. Fitzgerald (1834-1871) —
of Wickenburg, Maricopa
County, Ariz.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1834.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of Arizona
territorial House of Representatives, 1871.
Killed
himself by swallowing strychnine,
at Mill City (now part of Phoenix), Maricopa
County, Ariz., July 22,
1871 (age about 37
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Ferris Forman (1808-1901) —
of Vandalia, Fayette
County, Ill.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Stockton, San
Joaquin County, Calif.
Born in Nichols, Tioga
County, N.Y., August
24, 1808.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for Illinois, 1839-41; member of Illinois
state senate, 1845-46; colonel in the U.S. Army during the
Mexican War; candidate for Presidential Elector for Illinois; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; postmaster at Sacramento,
Calif., 1853-57; secretary
of state of California, 1858-60; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention 13th District, 1870;
Fayette
County State's Attorney.
Died in Stockton, San Joaquin
County, Calif., February
11, 1901 (age 92 years, 171
days).
Interment at San
Joaquin Catholic Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.
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John White Geary (1819-1873) —
also known as John W. Geary —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born near Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland
County, Pa., December
30, 1819.
Civil
engineer; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; postmaster at San
Francisco, Calif., 1849; candidate for Governor of
California, 1849; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1850-51; Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1856-57; general in the Union Army during
the Civil War; Governor of
Pennsylvania, 1867-73.
Methodist.
Died after suffering a heart
attack, in Harrisburg, Dauphin
County, Pa., February
8, 1873 (age 53 years, 40
days).
Interment at Harrisburg
Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
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Addison Crandall Gibbs (1825-1886) —
also known as A. C. Gibbs —
of Gardiner, Douglas
County, Ore.
Born in Cattaraugus
County, N.Y., July 9,
1825.
Republican. Lawyer;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1854; Governor of
Oregon, 1862-66; U.S.
Attorney for Oregon, 1871-73.
Died in London, England,
December
29, 1886 (age 61 years, 173
days).
Interment at River
View Cemetery, Portland, Ore.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Giddings (1816-1897) —
also known as Napoleon B. Giddings —
of Fayette, Howard
County, Mo.; Nebraska City, Otoe
County, Neb.; Savannah, Andrew
County, Mo.
Born near Boonsborough, Clark
County, Ky., January
2, 1816.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went to California
for the 1849 Gold Rush; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Nebraska Territory, 1855; colonel in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Died in Savannah, Andrew
County, Mo., August
3, 1897 (age 81 years, 213
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Savannah, Mo.
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Thomas Jefferson Green (1802-1863) —
of North Carolina; Texas; California.
Born in Warren
County, N.C., 1802.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1823; general in the
Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bexar, 1837; went to
California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1850.
Sponsored the bill in the California Senate to create
the University of California.
Died in North Carolina, December
12, 1863 (age about 61
years).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1905 at Fairview
Cemetery, Warrenton, N.C.
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William Semple Green (1832-1905) —
also known as Will S. Green —
of Colusa, Colusa
County, Calif.
Born December
26, 1832.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; hotel-keeper;
steamboat
captain; newspaper
editor and publisher; member of California
state assembly 25th District, 1867-69; California
state treasurer, 1898-99; promoter of irrigation projects.
Elected to the California Newspaper Hall of
Fame.
Died July 2,
1905 (age 72 years, 188
days).
Interment somewhere
in Colusa, Calif.; memorial monument at Will
S. Green Memorial, Near Hamilton City, Glenn County, Calif.
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William McKendree Gwin (1805-1885) —
also known as W. M. Gwin —
of Mississippi; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born near Gallatin, Sumner
County, Tenn., October
9, 1805.
Democrat. Physician;
U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1841-43; went to
California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1849; U.S.
Senator from California, 1850-55, 1857-61.
Engaged in a duel
with J.
W. McCorkle, June 1, 1853; there were no injuries; twice arrested
for alleged disloyalty
during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
3, 1885 (age 79 years, 329
days).
Entombed at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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William Stephen Hamilton (d. 1850) —
of Wisconsin.
Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; member of Wisconsin
territorial legislature, 1840; went to California for the 1849
Gold Rush.
Died in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., October
7, 1850.
Interment at Sacramento
City Cemetery, Sacramento, Calif.
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Serranus Clinton Hastings (1814-1893) —
also known as S. Clinton Hastings —
of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn
County, Ind.; Bloomington (now Muscatine), Muscatine
County, Iowa; Benicia, Solano
County, Calif.
Born in Watertown, Jefferson
County, N.Y., November
22, 1814.
Democrat. Member
Iowa territorial council, 1838-46; U.S.
Representative from Iowa at-large, 1846-47; justice of
Iowa state supreme court, 1848-49; went to California for the
1849 Gold Rush; justice of
California state supreme court, 1849-51; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1849-51; California
state attorney general, 1852-54.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
18, 1893 (age 78 years, 88
days).
Interment at St.
Helena Public Cemetery, St. Helena, Calif.
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John Coffee Hays (1817-1883) —
also known as Jack C. Hays —
of Oakland, Alameda
County, Calif.
Born in Cedar Lick, Wilson
County, Tenn., January
28, 1817.
Democrat. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of
Independence; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from California, 1876.
Joined the Texas Rangers in the 1830s (later named to Texas Rangers
Hall of Fame). Sheriff of San Francisco in 1850; U.S. Surveyor
General for California, 1853; one of the founders of the city of
Oakland.
Died April
21, 1883 (age 66 years, 83
days).
Interment at Mountain
View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
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Harmon Gregg Heald (1824-1858) —
also known as Harmon G. Heald —
of California.
Born in Ohio, January
29, 1824.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 11th District, 1856-57.
Died in Healdsburg, Sonoma
County, Calif., December
17, 1858 (age 34 years, 322
days).
Interment at Healdsburg
Cemetery, Healdsburg, Calif.
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Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863) —
of Wisconsin.
Born in Lierbyen, Norway,
December
21, 1829.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; abolitionist;
Wisconsin state prison commissioner, elected 1859; colonel in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Norwegian
ancestry.
Suffered wounds in battle,
and died the next day, at Chickamauga, Walker
County, Ga., September
20, 1863 (age 33 years, 273
days).
Interment at Norway
Lutheran Cemetery, Wind Lake, Wis.; statue at State Capitol Grounds, Madison, Wis.
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William Chalmers Hendricks (1825-1892) —
also known as William C. Hendricks —
of California.
Born in Ligonier, Westmoreland
County, Pa., 1825.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from California, 1880
(Convention
Vice-President); secretary
of state of California, 1887-91.
Died in Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., January
24, 1892 (age about 66
years).
Interment somewhere
in Oroville, Calif.
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Thomas Jefferson Henley (1808-1875) —
also known as Thomas J. Henley —
of New Washington, Clark
County, Ind.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., June 18,
1808.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1832-42; Speaker of
the Indiana State House of Representatives, 1840; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 2nd District, 1843-49; went to
California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly from Sacramento District, 1850-51; candidate for
Presidential Elector for California; postmaster at San
Francisco, Calif., 1853-54.
Died in Mendocino
County, Calif., May 1,
1875 (age 66 years, 317
days).
Interment at Valley View Cemetery, Covelo, Calif.
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James Farquhar Hibberd (1816-1903) —
also known as James F. Hibberd —
of Ohio; Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind.
Born near New Market, Frederick
County, Md., November
4, 1816.
Physician;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1845-47; went to California
for the 1849 Gold Rush; mayor
of Richmond, Ind., 1875-77.
Member, American Medical
Association; American
Public Health Association.
Died in Richmond, Wayne
County, Ind., September
8, 1903 (age 86 years, 308
days).
Interment at Earlham
Cemetery, Richmond, Ind.
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Samuel Hungerford (c.1800-1875) —
also known as "Colonel" —
of Novi Township (now Novi), Oakland
County, Mich.
Born about 1800.
Supervisor
of Novi Township, Michigan, 1833-34; went to California for
the 1849 Gold Rush.
Died April 7,
1875 (age about 75
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Hiram Abiff Imus Jr. (c.1804-1876) —
also known as Hiram A. Imus —
of Galena, Jo Daviess
County, Ill.; Santa Cruz
County, Calif.
Born in Cayuga, Cayuga
County, N.Y., about 1804.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; went to
California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 3rd District, 1859-60.
Died in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
County, Calif., October
4, 1876 (age about 72
years).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Santa Cruz, Calif.
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David Howell Jerome (1829-1896) —
also known as David H. Jerome —
of Saginaw, Saginaw
County, Mich.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., November
17, 1829.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; hardware
merchant; lumber
business; member of Michigan
state senate, 1863-68 (27th District 1863-66, 26th District
1867-68); alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Michigan, 1868;
member of Michigan
state constitutional commission 8th District, 1873; Governor of
Michigan, 1881-82; defeated, 1882.
Episcopalian.
Died in Watkins Glen, Schuyler
County, N.Y., April
23, 1896 (age 66 years, 158
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Saginaw Township, Saginaw County, Mich.
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James Kerr Kelly (1819-1903) —
also known as James K. Kelly —
of Clackamas
County, Ore.; Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.
Born in Blanchard, Centre
County, Pa., February
16, 1819.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer;
member of Oregon
territorial legislature, 1853; delegate
to Oregon state constitutional convention from Clackamas County,
1857; member of Oregon
state senate, 1860; U.S.
Attorney for Oregon, 1860-62; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1871-77; member of Democratic
National Committee from Oregon, 1876; justice of
Oregon state supreme court, 1878-80; chief
justice of Oregon state supreme court, 1878-80; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Oregon, 1888.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
15, 1903 (age 84 years, 211
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Charles West Kendall (1828-1914) —
of Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Hamilton, White Pine
County, Nev.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Searsmont, Waldo
County, Maine, April
22, 1828.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; newspaper
editor; lawyer;
member of California
state assembly 12th District, 1862-63; U.S.
Representative from Nevada at-large, 1871-75.
Died in Mt. Rainier, Prince
George's County, Md., June 25,
1914 (age 86 years, 64
days).
Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Thomas Butler King (1800-1864) —
also known as T. Butler King —
of Waynesville, Brantley
County, Ga.; Frederica, St. Simons Island, Glynn
County, Ga.
Born in Palmer, Hampden
County, Mass., August
27, 1800.
Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state senate, 1832-37, 1859; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1833; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1839-43, 1845-50 (at-large 1839-43,
1st District 1845-50); delegate to Whig National Convention from
Georgia, 1844; went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1851-53.
Slaveowner.
Died in Waresboro, Ware
County, Ga., May 10,
1864 (age 63 years, 257
days).
Interment at Christ
Churchyard, Frederica, St. Simons Island, Ga.
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William Lew May (c.1793-1849) —
also known as William L. May —
of Jacksonville, Morgan
County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill.
Born in Kentucky, about 1793.
Democrat. Member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1829-31; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 3rd District, 1834-39; mayor
of Springfield, Ill., 1841; went to California for the 1849
Gold Rush.
Slaveowner.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., September
29, 1849 (age about 56
years).
Interment somewhere
in Sacramento, Calif.
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Joseph Walker McCorkle (1819-1884) —
also known as Joseph W. McCorkle; J. W.
McCorkle —
of Dayton, Montgomery
County, Ohio; Sutter
County, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Piqua, Miami
County, Ohio, June 24,
1819.
Democrat. Lawyer;
postmaster at Dayton,
Ohio, 1845-49; went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush;
member of California
state assembly 14th District, 1851-52; U.S.
Representative from California 2nd District, 1851-53.
Engaged in a duel
with U.S. Senator W.
M. Gwin, June 1, 1853; there were no injuries.
Died in Branchville, Prince
George's County, Md., March
18, 1884 (age 64 years, 268
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Piqua, Ohio.
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Joseph Chambers McKibbin (1824-1896) —
of Downieville, Sierra
County, Calif.
Born in Chambersburg, Franklin
County, Pa., May 14,
1824.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer;
member of California
state senate, 1852-53; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1857-59; defeated, 1858;
colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; general
contractor.
Died in Marshall Hall, Charles
County, Md., July 1,
1896 (age 72 years, 48
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Robert H. McKune (1823-1894) —
of Scranton, Lackawanna
County, Pa.; Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne
County, Pa.
Born in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., August
19, 1823.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; served in
the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of Scranton, Pa., 1875-78.
Member, Freemasons.
While attempting to quell a riot in 1877, he was attacked,
and his skull was fractured.
Died, of heart
failure, in Newburgh, Orange
County, N.Y., October
9, 1894 (age 71 years, 51
days).
Interment at Forest
Hill Cemetery, Dunmore, Pa.
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Relatives:
Married 1844 to Elmira
Smith. |
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Hector B. Meredith (1826-1885) —
of Folsom, Sacramento
County, Calif.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Winchester,
Va., April
30, 1826.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 9th District, 1855-56.
Died from complications of a bad fall, in
New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1885 (age 59 years, 29
days).
Interment at Old Lutheran Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of James S. Meredith and Elizabeth B. (Eaty)
Meredith. |
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Daniel Azro Millington (1823-1891) —
of Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan.
Born in Hubbardton, Rutland
County, Vt., May 16,
1823.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; newspaper
editor; postmaster;
mayor
of Winfield, Kan., 1875-76.
Died of heart
failure, in Winfield, Cowley
County, Kan., May 7,
1891 (age 67 years, 356
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Winfield, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Solomon Millington and Clarinda (Richardson) Millington; married,
May
16, 1848, to Mary Ann Smith. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Bill Bottorff, Winfield
historian |
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John L. Morse —
Member of Michigan
state house of representatives, 1846-47; went to California
for the 1849 Gold Rush.
Burial location unknown.
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Edward Neblett (1818-1907) —
of Weaverville, Trinity
County, Calif.; Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif.
Born in Prince
George County, Va., July 18,
1818.
Whig. Hatter;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; Trinity
County Sheriff, 1855-57; member of California
state assembly 21st District, 1858-59; banker; hardware
business; mayor
of Santa Rosa, Calif., 1876-78.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, Calif., January
19, 1907 (age 88 years, 185
days).
Interment at Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, Santa Rosa, Calif.
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David Hopkinson Nichols (1828-1900) —
also known as David H. Nichols —
of Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo.
Born in Hardwick, Caledonia
County, Vt., March
16, 1828.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went to California
for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of Colorado
territorial House of Representatives, 1865; delegate
to Colorado state constitutional convention, 1865; Lieutenant
Governor of Colorado, 1893-95.
Died in Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo., December
16, 1900 (age 72 years, 275
days).
Interment at Columbia
Cemetery, Boulder, Colo.
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Alanson W. Nightingill (1826-1870) —
of Nevada.
Born in Ashland, Ashland
County, Ohio, May 17,
1826.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; delegate
to Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863; Nevada
state comptroller, 1864-66.
Died in Carson
City, Nev., February
12, 1870 (age 43 years, 271
days).
Burial location unknown.
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James Otis (1826-1875) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., August
11, 1826.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; importer
and exporter; candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1872
(delegation chair); mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1873-75; died in office 1875.
Unitarian.
Died, of diphtheria,
in San
Francisco, Calif., October
30, 1875 (age 49 years, 80
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Edward Wheeler Pendleton (1825-1889) —
also known as Edward W. Pendleton —
of Sturgis, St. Joseph
County, Mich.
Born in Broadalbin, Fulton
County, N.Y., December
13, 1825.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; hotel-keeper;
merchant;
member of Michigan
state senate 10th District, 1879-80.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in Sturgis, St. Joseph
County, Mich., May 18,
1889 (age 63 years, 156
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Edmund Winston Pettus (1821-1907) —
also known as Edmund W. Pettus —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Limestone
County, Ala., July 6,
1821.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went to California
for the 1849 Gold Rush; circuit judge in Alabama, 1855-58;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892;
U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1897-1907; died in office 1907.
Member, Ku
Klux Klan.
Slaveowner.
Died in Hot Springs, Madison
County, N.C., July 27,
1907 (age 86 years, 21
days).
Interment at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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James A. Pinney (b. 1835) —
of Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Franklin
County, Ohio, September
29, 1835.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; bookseller;
mayor
of Boise, Idaho, 1881-85, 1889-93, 1905-07.
Burial location unknown.
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Image source:
City of Boise |
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William Adam Piper (1826-1899) —
of California.
Born in Franklin
County, Pa., May 21,
1826.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went to
California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
U.S.
Representative from California 1st District, 1875-77.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., August
5, 1899 (age 73 years, 76
days).
Original interment at Odd
Fellows Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Greenlawn
Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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James Harvey Ralston (1807-1864) —
also known as James H. Ralston —
of Quincy, Adams
County, Ill.; Sacramento
County, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.; Austin, Lander
County, Nev.
Born in Bourbon
County, Ky., October
12, 1807.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; circuit
judge in Illinois 5th Circuit, 1837; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1837-39; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Illinois; member of Illinois
state senate, 1841-45; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1841; member of Illinois
Democratic State Committee, 1841-46; served in the U.S. Army
during the Mexican War; went to California for the 1849 Gold
Rush; member of California
state senate, 1853-54; candidate for chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1856; delegate
to Nevada state constitutional convention, 1863.
Member, Freemasons.
Died after becoming lost in a snowstorm,
in Nye
County, Nev., May 8,
1864 (age 56 years, 209
days).
Interment somewhere
in Austin, Nev.
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Charles Sturtevant Randall (1824-1904) —
also known as Charles S. Randall —
of New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass.
Born in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., February
20, 1824.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member
of Massachusetts
state senate, 1883; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1889-95 (1st District 1889-93,
13th District 1893-95); defeated (Independent Republican), 1898.
Died in New Bedford, Bristol
County, Mass., August
17, 1904 (age 80 years, 179
days).
Interment at Rural
Cemetery, New Bedford, Mass.
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Edmund Randolph (1820-1861) —
of California.
Born in Virginia, June 9,
1820.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly from San Francisco District, 1849-51.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., September
8, 1861 (age 41 years, 91
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Maria (Ward) Randolph; grandson of Edmund
Jenings Randolph; grandnephew of George
Nicholas, Wilson
Cary Nicholas and John
Nicholas; great-grandson of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); great-grandnephew of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin once removed of Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) and Edmund
Randolph Cocke; first cousin twice removed of Francis
Beverley Biddle; first cousin thrice removed of Richard
Bland and Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791); second cousin of Peter
Myndert Dox; second cousin once removed of Harry
Bartow Hawes; second cousin twice removed of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Beverley
Randolph, Carter
Bassett Harrison, William
Henry Harrison and John
Randolph of Roanoke; third cousin of Thomas
Marshall and James
Keith Marshall; third cousin once removed of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Henry
St. George Tucker and John
Scott Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Burwell
Bassett; fourth cousin of Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker, Carter
Henry Harrison and Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901); fourth cousin once removed of John
Wayles Eppes, Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh
Lee, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Russell
Benjamin Harrison, John
Augustine Marshall, Richard
Evelyn Byrd, Carter
Henry Harrison II, Frederick
Madison Roberts and William
Welby Beverley. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Norman Dunning Rideout (1832-1907) —
also known as N. D. Rideout —
of Marysville, Yuba
County, Calif.; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Bowdoinham, Sagadahoc
County, Maine, January
6, 1832.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
banker;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1876,
1892.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., July 2,
1907 (age 75 years, 177
days).
Interment at East
Lawn Memorial Park, Sacramento, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Benjamin Rideout and Margaret (Macomber) Rideout; married 1858 to Phebe
Mason Abbott. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Jetur Rose Riggs (1809-1869) —
also known as Jetur R. Riggs —
of Paterson, Passaic
County, N.J.
Born near Drakesville (now Ledgewood), Morris
County, N.J., June 20,
1809.
Republican. Physician;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Bergen County, 1836; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of New
Jersey state senate from Passaic County, 1856-58; U.S.
Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1859-61.
Died in Drakesville (now Ledgewood), Morris
County, N.J., November
5, 1869 (age 60 years, 138
days).
Interment at Presbyterian
Cemetery, Succasunna, N.J.
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Richard Roman (1811-1875) —
of Victoria, Victoria
County, Tex.
Born in Fayette
County, Ky., 1811.
Democrat. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of
Independence; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1836-37, 1838-39; mayor
of Victoria, Tex., 1844; member of Texas
Republic Senate, 1844-45; major in the U.S. Army during the
Mexican War; went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; California
state treasurer, 1849-54; U.S. Consul in Guaymas, 1854-56.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., December
22, 1875 (age about 64
years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Henry Sanderson (1824-1893) —
also known as George H. Sanderson —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., 1824.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1891-93.
Died, of pneumonia,
February
1, 1893 (age about 68
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Henry Selby (1820-1875) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 14,
1820.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; merchant;
mayor
of San Francisco, Calif., 1869-71.
Died, of pneumonia,
in San
Francisco, Calif., June 17,
1875 (age 55 years, 34
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Jacob K. Shafer (1823-1876) —
of Stockton, San
Joaquin County, Calif.; Idaho.
Born near Broadway, Rockingham
County, Va., December
26, 1823.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer; mayor
of Stockton, Calif., 1852; San
Joaquin County Judge, 1853-62; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Idaho Territory, 1869.
Died in Eureka, Eureka
County, Nev., November
22, 1876 (age 52 years, 332
days).
Interment at Masonic
Cemetery, Eureka, Nev.
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Wilson Shannon (1802-1877) —
of St. Clairsville, Belmont
County, Ohio; Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan.
Born in Mt. Olivet, Belmont
County, Ohio, February
24, 1802.
Democrat. Lawyer; Governor of
Ohio, 1838-40, 1842-44; defeated, 1840; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1844-45; went to California for the 1849 Gold
Rush; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 17th District, 1853-55; defeated, 1832;
Governor
of Kansas Territory, 1855-56, 1856; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Kansas, 1876.
Catholic.
Irish
ancestry.
Died in Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan., August
30, 1877 (age 75 years, 187
days).
Interment at Oak
Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Kan.
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William Sharon (1821-1885) —
of Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill.; Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif.; Virginia City, Storey
County, Nev.
Born in Smithfield, Jefferson
County, Ohio, January
9, 1821.
Republican. Lawyer;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; banker; mining
business; real estate
business; U.S.
Senator from Nevada, 1875-81.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., November
13, 1885 (age 64 years, 308
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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James Harvey Slater (1826-1899) —
of Corvallis, Benton
County, Ore.
Born near Springfield, Sangamon
County, Ill., December
28, 1826.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer; newspaper
publisher; member of Oregon
territorial House of Representatives, 1857-58; member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1859; District Attorney 5th
District, 1868; U.S.
Representative from Oregon at-large, 1871-73; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1879-85.
Died in La Grande, Union
County, Ore., January
28, 1899 (age 72 years, 31
days).
Interment at Masonic
Cemetery, La Grande, Ore.
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Henry Smith (1788-1851) —
of Texas.
Born in Kentucky, May 20,
1788.
Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Columbia, 1835; Provisional
Governor of Texas, 1835-36; impeached
as governor by the provisional council in 1836; Texas
Republic Secretary of the Treasury, 1836-38; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1840; went to California
for the 1849 Gold Rush.
Died in Los Angeles
County, Calif., March 4,
1851 (age 62 years, 288
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Benjamin Stark (1820-1898) —
of Portland, Multnomah
County, Ore.; New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., June 26,
1820.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer;
member of Oregon
territorial House of Representatives, 1852; member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1860; U.S.
Senator from Oregon, 1861-62; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Connecticut, 1868;
member of Connecticut
state house of representatives, 1874.
On June 6, 1862, a resolution
to expel him from the U.S. Senate for alleged disloyalty
to the Union, requiring two-thirds to pass, failed on a vote of
21 in favor to 16 opposed.
Died in New London, New London
County, Conn., October
10, 1898 (age 78 years, 106
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.
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Amos Steck (1822-1908) —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Lancaster, Fairfield
County, Ohio, January
8, 1822.
Republican. Lawyer;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; mayor of
Denver, Colo., 1863-64; chief
justice of Colorado territorial supreme court, 1870; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1880.
Died in Denver,
Colo., November
17, 1908 (age 86 years, 314
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Edward Augustus Stevenson (1831-1895) —
also known as Edward A. Stevenson —
of El
Dorado County, Calif.; Tehama
County, Calif.; Boise, Ada
County, Idaho.
Born in Lowville, Lewis
County, N.Y., June 15,
1831.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of
California
state assembly, 1854-56, 1860-61 (18th District 1854-56, 13th
District 1860-61); Speaker of
the California State Assembly, 1860; member
Idaho territorial council, 1866-68, 1876-78; Governor
of Idaho Territory, 1885-89; appointed 1885; candidate for Governor of
Idaho, 1894.
Died by suicide,
from laudanum,
at Paraiso Springs, Monterey
County, Calif., July 6,
1895 (age 64 years, 21
days).
Interment at Pioneer
Cemetery, Boise, Idaho.
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Owen Paul Sutton (1821-1881) —
also known as Owen P. Sutton —
of California.
Born in Naples, Ontario
County, N.Y., August
8, 1821.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; banker;
member of California
state assembly 8th District, 1863; real estate
business.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., September
1, 1881 (age 60 years, 24
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment in 1946 at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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David Smith Terry (1823-1889) —
also known as David S. Terry —
of Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.; San
Francisco, Calif.; Stockton, San
Joaquin County, Calif.
Born in Christian County (part now in Todd
County), Ky., March 8,
1823.
Lawyer;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; advocated the
extension of slavery to California; justice of
California state supreme court, 1855-59; chief
justice of California state supreme court, 1857-59; killed U.S.
Senator David
C. Broderick in a duel
near San Francisco in 1859; tried
for murder,
but acquitted; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate
to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79; candidate
for Presidential Elector for California; his wife Sarah Althea Hill
claimed to be the widow and heir of wealthy U.S. Senator William
Sharon; in September, 1888, when her claim was finally rejected
by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen
J. Field (acting as a Court of Appeals judge for California), she
and Terry caused an altercation in the courtroom and were jailed
six months for contempt
of court.
Five months after his release from jail, he encountered Justice Field
and slapped him in the face; he was then shot
through the heart and killed by
U.S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, the justice's bodyguard, in the train
station dining
room at Lathrop, San Joaquin
County, Calif., August
14, 1889 (age 66 years, 159
days). Neagle was arrested by local authorities, but later
released on the demand of the U.S. government.
Interment at Stockton
Rural Cemetery, Stockton, Calif.
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Cameron Erskine Thom (1825-1915) —
also known as Cameron E. Thom —
of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif.; Glendale, Los
Angeles County, Calif.
Born in Culpeper, Culpeper
County, Va., June 20,
1825.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; lawyer; Los
Angeles County District Attorney, 1854-57, 1869-73, 1877-79;
member of California
state senate, 1858-59; served in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; mayor
of Los Angeles, Calif., 1882-84.
Protestant.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Glendale, Los Angeles
County, Calif., February
2, 1915 (age 89 years, 227
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Charles Ames Washburn (1822-1889) —
also known as Charles A. Washburn —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Livermore, Androscoggin
County, Maine, March
16, 1822.
Republican. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush;
delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1856
(member, Credentials
Committee); candidate for Presidential Elector for California;
U.S. Diplomatic Commissioner to Paraguay, 1861-63; U.S. Minister to Paraguay, 1863-68; novelist;
invented
an early typewriter.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., January
26, 1889 (age 66 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Henry Jackson Wells (1823-1912) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., November
16, 1823.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of Massachusetts
state senate, 1881-83.
Baptist.
Died in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., November
24, 1912 (age 89 years, 8
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Joseph Rodman West (1822-1898) —
of Louisiana.
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., September
19, 1822.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; general in the Union Army
during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1871-77; member
District of Columbia board of commissioners, 1882-85; President
of the District of Columbia Board of Commissioners, 1882-83.
Died in Washington,
D.C., October
31, 1898 (age 76 years, 42
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Stephen Girard Whipple (1823-1895) —
also known as Stephen G. Whipple —
of Eureka, Humboldt
County, Calif.
Born in Williston, Chittenden
County, Vt., November
5, 1823.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly, 1854-55, 1857-58, 1863 (12th District 1854-55,
1857-58, 27th District 1863); served in the Union Army during the
Civil War.
Member, Freemasons;
Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Eureka, Humboldt
County, Calif., October
21, 1895 (age 71 years, 350
days).
Interment at Myrtle
Grove Cemetery, Eureka, Calif.
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John Whiteaker (1820-1902) —
also known as "Honest John" —
of Eugene, Lane
County, Ore.
Born in Dearborn
County, Ind., May 4,
1820.
Democrat. Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; Governor of
Oregon, 1859-62; member of Oregon
state house of representatives, 1865-70; member of Oregon
state senate, 1876; U.S.
Representative from Oregon at-large, 1879-81; member of Democratic
National Committee from Oregon, 1880; U.S. Collector of Internal
Revenue for Oregon, 1885-90.
Died in Eugene, Lane
County, Ore., October
2, 1902 (age 82 years, 151
days).
Interment at Masonic
Cemetery, Eugene, Ore.
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Frederick A. Woodworth (d. 1865) —
of California.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1857.
Died in San
Francisco, Calif., February
12, 1865.
Burial location unknown.
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George Washington Wright (1816-1885) —
also known as George W. Wright —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Washington,
D.C.; Dorchester, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass.
Born in Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass., June 4,
1816.
Merchant;
banker;
went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1850-51.
Died in Dorchester, Norfolk County (now part of Boston, Suffolk
County), Mass., April 7,
1885 (age 68 years, 307
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.
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