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  2. William Leidesdorff - Wikipedia

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    Leidesdorff was a West Indian immigrant of Afro-Cuban, possibly Carib, Danish/Swedish and Jewish ancestry. Leidesdorff became a United States citizen in New Orleans in 1834. He migrated to Alta California in 1841, then under Mexican rule, settling in Yerba Buena (now San Francisco), a village of about 30 Mexican and European families.

  3. History of San Francisco - Wikipedia

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    San Francisco was the county seat of San Francisco County, one of state's 18 original counties since California's statehood in 1850. Until 1856, the city limits extended west to Divisadero Street and Castro Street, and south to 20th Street.

  4. Daniel Lurie - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Lawrence Lurie was born and raised in a Jewish [4] family in San Francisco, the son of Mimi (née Ruchwarger) and Rabbi Brian Lurie. [5] [6] His parents divorced when he was two [6] and his mother remarried to Peter E. Haas [5] and his father remarried Caroline Fromm Lurie.

  5. List of Portuguese Americans - Wikipedia

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    Although American by birth, Furtado is of partial Portuguese ancestry. Kurt Gouveia (born 1964), football player who played 13 season in the NFL with the Washington Redskins Philadelphia Eagles and San Diego Chargers and was a member of both their 1987 and 1991 Super Bowl Championship teams (Redskins). Gouveia was born in Hawaii.

  6. Ohlone - Wikipedia

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    With 397 enrolled members in 2000, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe comprises "all of the known surviving Native American lineages aboriginal to the San Francisco Bay region who trace their ancestry through the Missions Dolores, Santa Clara and San Jose" and who descend from members of the historic Federally Recognized Verona Band of Alameda County.

  7. List of San Francisco placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    A man was charged in the 1988 incident, and San Francisco city officials stressed the cost of removing the stickers in the 2009 incident. Per a 1918 San Francisco Chronicle article, Bush Street is named after a physician, Jonathan Platt Bush (J.P. Bush). Cabrillo Street: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo: California Street: State of California: Capp ...

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