List of people associated with the California Gold Rush

The California gold rush occurred in Northern California, during the period from 1848 to 1855. +List of people associated with the California Gold Rush Name ImageBirth, death Birthplace Profession Notes 1812–1860Medway, Massachusetts, U.S.mountain man, trainer of grizzly bears1818–1905Greenfield, New York, U.S.alcalde, blacksmith, industrialist, abolitionist, postmaster, Methodist ministerone of the founding fathers of the city of Santa Cruz, California1832–1901Stockbridge, New York, U.S.meatpacking industrialiststarted his meat packing business with funds from success in the Gold Fields1815–1892Connecticut, U.S.politician, rancho granteefirst mayor of San Jose, California1811–1855Walla Walla, Washington, U.S.soldier, hotelierpresent at the first discovery of gold1819–1900Chautauqua County, New York, U.S.politician, soldierfounder of the city of Chico, California1819–1889Saco, Massachusetts (now Maine), U.S.politician, businessman, journalistfirst to publicize the California Gold Rush, and California's first millionairec. 1802 – 1889Villa de Branciforte (modern day Santa Cruz), CaliforniaCalifornio ranchera, medical practitioner, merchantfounding mother of San Francisco, California, and Mayfield, California (now Palo Alto, California)1832–1901Lexington, Ohio, U.S.businessman, politician, minerals miner, banker1805–1866Fort Mandan, North Dakota, U.S.Shoshone–French explorer, guide, fur trapper, and military scout1822–1902Mason County, Kentucky, U.S.African American pioneer, homesteader, miner, and farmer in California; formerly enslavedc. 1827–1862Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.madam of the Barbary Coast of San Francisco1847–1924New York City, New York, U.S.actress, entertainer, comedian, philanthropist1826–1864Buncombe County, North Carolina, U.Sprospector, explorer1822–1888Troy, New York, U.S.railroad executive, businessman1806–1874Aurora, Erie County, New York, U.S.writer, forty-ninerc. 1825–1916Mobile County, Alabama, U.S.African American businessperson, real estate developer, abolitionistone of San Francisco's wealthiest Black men in the late 19th-century1829–1869Vaucluse Plantation, Virginia, U.S.politicianfrom nobility1825–1885IrelandIrish-born politician10th Mayor of San Jose, California1817–1855Meredith, New Hampshire, U.S.real estate investor, military personnelfounder of Folsom, California1813–1890Savannah, Georgia, U.S.explorer, military officer, politiciannamesake of Fremont, California1819–1873Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.lawyer, politician, military leader1817–1894Rapallo, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)Italian-born chocolatierfounder of the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company in San Francisco, California.1823–1915Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.African American politician, businessman, publisher, abolitionistDuring the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, he led a migration of African Americans from San Francisco to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada1830–1911Tennessee, U.S.African American freedman, miner, farmerwas an enslaved African American who self–purchase freedom during the mid-19th-century1818–1869London, Englanddeveloper, entrepreneurtransported emigrants to San Francisco, developed the South Park neghborhood, started San Francisco's first sugar refinery1829–1911Northampton County, North Carolina, U.S.miner, planter, soldierserved as a Confederate general during the American Civil War1822–1885Point Pleasant, Ohio, U.S.18th president, soldierserved in the Mexican–American War; led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War1821–1904Vermont, U.S.mine-owner, capitalist, businessman, financiermade his fortune during the California Gold Rush, as a gold miner1820–1891Sullivan, Missouri Territory (now Missouri), U.S.businessperson, politicianused slight mining knowledge from Missouri to succeed in 1850s gold rush investmentc. 1820–1860Foster, Rhode Island, U.S.thief, murderer, mutineer, pirate1829–1913Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany)politician, industrialist, real estate investorleading land developer in Santa Cruz County, California1832–1915Albany, New York, U.S.prospector, explorer 1828–1914New York City, New York, U.S.politician, miner1796–1852Rutland, Massachusetts, U.S.politiciancommander of the California Republic1843–1915Kearney, Missouri, U.S.soldier, thiefpart of the James–Younger Gang, former Confederate soldier1815–1888Union County, Pennsylvania, U.S.mountain man, hunter, chair maker, entertainerearly settler of Humboldt County, California1810–1848St. Croix, Danish West Indies (now United States Virgin Islands)Afro-Caribbean businessman, politicianfounder of the city of San Francisco, thought to have been the first black millionaire in the United StatesSue Bailey Thurman, 1952, Pioneers of Negro Origin in California, San Francisco: Acme Pub. Co.c. 1814–c. 1897South Carolina, U.S.African American businessman, abolitionistearly Black settler in San Francisco1796–1876Stumpstown (now Fredericksburg), Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, U.S.businessman, piano builder1822–1903Bilten, Canton of Glarus, SwitzerlandSwiss–born memoirist1810–1885Hopewell Township, New Jersey, U.S.carpenter, sawmill operatordiscoverer of the first gold1797–1850Lexington Plantation, Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S.military officer1821–1861Grange, County Sligo, Connacht, IrelandIrish-born dancer and courtesanfamous as a "Spanish" dancer, and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria1824–1883IrelandIrish-born newspaper editor1811–1862Rutherford County, Tennessee, U.S. politician1837–1913Union County, Indiana, U.S.poet, frontiersman1829–1853Álamos, Sonora, MexicoMexican outlaw, gold miner, vaquero"Robin Hood of the West"c. 1799–1882Pennsylvania, U.S.teacher, lawyer, politician, failed miner 8th Governor of ArkansasJohn Marion Murphy1824–1892Frampton, Quebec, Lower Canada rancher, miner, businessperson, politician, and an early settler in California1818–1880Deptford, EnglandEnglish-born commodities trader and real estate investor also known as Emperor Norton1829–1908Vermilion, Ohio, U.S.inventor, mechanical engineerinventor of the "Pelton Runner," considered to be the "Father of Hydroelectric Power"1807–1886Santiago, Chile.miner, merchant, politician, writer, forty-eighterwrote an influential text about the gold rush, led later the German colonization of southern Chile1801–1894Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, San Gabriel, Alta California, New SpainCalifornio politician, ranchero, entrepreneurlast governor of Alta California under Mexican rule from 1845 to 1846.c. 1814–1904U.S.African American entrepreneur, real estate investor, abolitionist, financierfirst self-made millionaire of African-American heritage1802–1872Winchester, New Hampshire, U.S.missionary, farmer, whaler1804–1877Santiago, Chile. miner, vine and watermelon farmer, painter introduced Chilean grapes to CaliforniaJames F. Reed1800–1874County Armagh, Kingdom of Irelandminer, businessman, soldier, settler 1824–1882Yarmouth, Colony of Nova Scotia (now Nova Scotia, Canada)British North America-born politicianMayor of Sacramento, secretary of the State of Californiac. 1835–1900Missouri, U.S.African American mining engineer, metallurgist1823–1907Sullivan County, New York, U.S.prospectorearly pioneer of Searsville and La Honda1820–1891Lancaster, Ohio, U.S.soldier, businessman, educator, author1824–1893Watervliet, New York, U.S.politician, railroad tycoon1817–1883New York, U.S.politician, attorney, jurist1829–1902Buttenheim, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation (now Germany)German Confederation-born entrepreneurfounder of Levi Strauss & Co. of San Francisco, California1833–1917Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.businessmanbuilt wheelbarrows in Placerville in the early 1850s and contributed his earnings to the family Studebaker Wagon Corporation1824–1892Savoy, FranceFrench-born gold miner and businesswomanknown for wearing pants, and arrested several times for it.1803–1880Kandern, Margraviate of Baden, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany)German-born Swiss businessman, explorerestablished Sutter's Fort1810–1888Sussex County, New Jersey, U.S.miner, prospector, politician1829–1928Canton, Guangdong, Qing Chinasex worker, madamthe first Chinese sex worker in San Francisco1819–1907Frankfort, Maine, U.S.businessman, abolitionistpioneer in the Mission District, San Francisco1825–1909Geneva, Ohio, U.S.shipbuilderconsidered "the 'grandaddy' of big time wooden shipbuilding on the Pacific Coast"1835–1910Florida, Missouri, U.S.writer, humorist, and essayist1807–1890Monterey, Alta California, Viceroyalty of New Spain (now California, U.S.)Californio politician, military leader1812–1881politicianCarl David Maria Weber1814–1881Steinwenden, Palatinate, Kingdom of Bavaria (now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)entrepreneur, miner, land ownerfounder of the city of Stockton, California1819–1887entrepreneurfounder of Wellman, Peck and Companyc. 1820–1902entrepreneurfounder of the El Dorado hotel in Nevada City1826–1894politician

List of people associated with the California Gold Rush

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