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Major-General John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) ... and the depression that followed, wiped out much of Frémont's remaining wealth. Their ...
In the 19th century, the Du Pont family maintained their family wealth by carefully arranged marriages between cousins [9] which, at the time, was the norm for many families. The family played a large part in politics during the 18th and 19th centuries and assisted in negotiations for the Treaty of Paris and the Louisiana Purchase.
On December 27, 1846, Frémont and the California Battalion, in their march south to Los Angeles, reached a deserted Santa Barbara and raised the American flag. [1] He occupied a hotel close to the adobe of Bernarda Ruiz de Rodriguez, a wealthy educated woman of influence and Santa Barbara town matriarch, who had four sons on the Mexican side.
The Radical Democracy Party was an abolitionist and anti-Confederate political party in the United States.The party was formed to contest the 1864 presidential election and it was made up largely of disaffected Radical Republicans who felt that President Abraham Lincoln was too moderate on the issues of slavery and racial equality.
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After playing his part in the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846, John C. Frémont, soldier, explorer, and (later) presidential candidate, decided to settle down in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1847 he sent $3,000 to the U.S. consul to the Territory of California, Thomas O. Larkin , to buy a ranch near Mission San José .
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