John Augustus Sutter, upon whose farm gold was first discovered in California, died at Meade's Hotel, in Washington, on Friday, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He had been suffering for a weev with inflammation of the kidneys, but his death was quite unexpected.
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John Sutter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Augustus Sutter (February 15 1803 – June 18 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W. Marshall and the ...
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About the personal circumstances which dominated the childhood of young ...... Today John Augustus Sutter is still far from having received the justice due ...
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George Washington Biography; Learn about George Washington, the first president of the United States. Read about his childhood, his career pre-presidency, and his time as president. ... Going to California: 49ers and the Gold Rush; Learn about the history of the California Gold Rush and what actually happened to John Sutter.
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Captain John Sutter, an immigrant from Switzerland,was born on February 15 of 1803 in Kandern, Baden, a few miles from the Swiss border. As an apprentice to a firm of printers and booksellers, Sutter found the paper business was not for him.
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IN the German Grand Duchy of Baden, at Kandern, there was born on the last day of February, 1803, to a Swiss family named Suter a male child who, though baptized Johann August, became known in after life as Captain John A. Sutter.
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Excerpts of John Sutter's Diaries 1838-1848 ... Photograph of John Sutter ... Signature of John Sutter...
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The story of General John A Sutter. ... Upon arriving in New York, John Sutter headed west to Missouri where he worked as a merchant, trader and innkeeper for several years. All the while dreaming of establishing his own empire in the West. In April of 1838 he joined a trapping party on their way to the Pacific Coast.
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The population, including surrounding villages totaled about 800.Change came quickly when James Marshall picked up a small yellow rock while working on John Sutter's sawmill along the American River in the sparsely populated city of Coloma, California on January 24, 1848.
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