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Lyman Stewart (July 22, 1840 – September 28, 1923) was a U.S. businessman and co-founder of Union Oil Company of California.Stewart was also a significant Christian philanthropist and cofounder of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now known as Biola University).
Barclay was a British-born frontiersman of the American West. After working in St. Louis as a bookkeeper and clerk, he worked at Bent's Old Fort. He then ventured westward where he was a trapper, hunter, and trader. [1] Beckwourth, Jim: 1798–1866 1824–1866 United States Bent, Charles: 1799–1847 1828–1846 United States Bent, William
The non-Indian population of California in 1840 was about 8,000, as confirmed by the California 1850 U.S. census, which asked everyone their place of birth. The Indian population is unknown but has been variously estimated at 30,000 to 150,000 in 1840.
June McCarroll (June 30, 1867 – March 30, 1954) is credited by the California Department of Transportation with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line to separate lanes of highway traffic, although this claim is disputed by the Federal Highway Administration [1] and the Michigan Department of Transportation [2] as two Michigan men painted centerlines before her. [3]
Smith, Marvin Louis President St. Louis Terminal Railroad 1961–1962 Smith, Richard Earl Trainmaster Texas-Pacific Missouri-Pacific Railroad 1961–1968 Smucker, David E. , LIRR 1949–1950
The Red River trails: oxcart routes between St. Paul and the Selkirk settlement, 1820-1870 (Minnesota Historical Society, 1979). Hurley, Sister Helen Angela. On Good Ground: The Story of the Sisters of Saint Joseph in St. Paul (U of Minnesota Press, 1951). Lor, Yang (2009). "Hmong Political Involvement in St. Paul, Minnesota and Fresno ...
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People who dealt in enslaved indigenous persons, such as was the case with slavery in California, would be included. Slave smuggling took advantage of international and tribal boundaries to traffic slaves into the United States from Spanish North American and Caribbean colonies, and across the lands of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee ...