List of people associated with the California Gold Rush: Difference between revisions

See also Category:People of the California Gold Rush

This is a list of people associated with the California Gold Rush in Northern California during the period from 1848 to 1855.

Charles H. Bennett, present at the first discovery of gold

• Samuel Brannan
• R. C. Chambers
• Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
• William D. Bradshaw
• [[Charles Crocker]poohead
• Alonzo Delano
• George Washington Dennis
• Charles S. Fairfax
• Thomas Fallon
• Joseph Libbey Folsom
• John C. Frémont
• John White Geary
• Domingo Ghirardelli
• Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
• Daniel Govan
• Ulysses Grant
• Alvinza Hayward
• Albert W. Hicks
• John Wesley Hillman
• Sherman Otis Houghton
• William B. Ide
• Frank James
• Seth Kinman
• Peter Lester
• James Lick
• Heinrich Lienhard
• James Marshall, discoverer of the first gold
• Richard Barnes Mason
• John Templeton McCarty
• James McClatchy
• Benjamin McCulloch
• Joaquin Miller
• Joaquin Murietta
• Isaac Murphy
• Joshua Norton, a.k.a. His Imperial Majesty Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
• Lester Allan Pelton, inventor of the "Pelton Runner," considered to be the "Father of Hydroelectric Power"
• Addison Pratt
• Benjamin B. Redding
• John Howell Sears, arrived by boat in 1850 to San Francisco.^[1]
• William Tecumseh Sherman
• Claus Spreckels
• Leland Stanford
• Elijah Steele
• Levi Strauss
• John Sutter
• A. A. Townsend
• George Treat
• Matthew Turner
• Mark Twain
• Maríano Guadalupe Vallejo
• William Waldo
• Bela Wellman
• Luzena Wilson
• Edwin B. Winans

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