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Lady Burdett-Coutts, ca. 1840. Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts (née Burdett; 21 April 1814 – 30 December 1906) was a British philanthropist, the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet and Sophia, formerly Coutts, daughter of banker Thomas Coutts.
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).
William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. (1810 – May 18, 1848) was an Afro-Caribbean settler in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco.A highly successful, enterprising businessman, he is thought to have been the first black millionaire in the United States.
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.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...
Assembly Bill 1840, which now goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, would allow undocumented immigrants to apply alongside other qualified applicants for the California Dream for All Shared ...
Historians specializing in the study of the history of California. Pages in category "Historians of California" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
St. Louis (auxiliary), IV Kansas City-Saint Joseph, XIV New Orleans, X Chicago: 528: James Byrne: CR2° 380 505: 1947: Saint Paul and Minneapolis (auxiliary), IV Boise, IX Dubuque: 529: Henry Klonowski: 375 438 452: 1947: Scranton (auxiliary) 530: Joseph M. Marling: 409 405 499: 1947: Kansas City (auxiliary), I Jefferson City: 531: Roman ...