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made his fortune during the California Gold Rush, as a gold miner George Hearst: 1820–1891 Sullivan, Missouri Territory (now Missouri), U.S. businessperson, politician used slight mining knowledge from Missouri to succeed in 1850s gold rush investment Albert W. Hicks: c. 1820–1860 Foster, Rhode Island, U.S. thief, murderer, mutineer, pirate
Pages in category "People of the California Gold Rush" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 290 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
She helped formerly enslaved people become settled during Colorado's Gold Rush. She was known as the 'Angel of the Rockies' and made her mark as "Colorado's first black settler and a prosperous entrepreneur". [1] Brown, born in Virginia in 1800, [a] moved to Logan County, Kentucky, with her family. She married another enslaved person when she ...
The Gold Rush began in earnest in 1849, which led to its eager participants being called "49ers," and within two years of James Marshall's discovery at Sutter's Mill, 90,000 people flocked to ...
Luzena Stanley Wilson, née Hunt (c. 1820 –1902 [1]) was a California Gold Rush entrepreneur. Wilson came overland to California from Missouri with her husband and two small children in 1849. Luzena recounted her memoirs to her daughter Correnah, in which she describes her journey from the early days in Sacramento , her founding of the “El ...
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (April 17, 1823 – July 11, 1915) was an American-born Canadian politician, businessman, newspaper publisher, and advocate for black rights. [1] [2] He moved to California as a young man, during the Gold Rush, and was an early black pioneer in San Francisco. [3]
The California Gold Rush proved to be a highly disruptive development on the California landscape and, despite the stipulation of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 that Indians would be allowed to keep their lands, treaties were neither respected nor regarded by the influx of white profiteers. As Indians began attacking settlements ...
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