Sunday, August 26, 2007

Senator William McKendree Gwin (1805–1885); Supporter of Slavery; Bad Shot

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William McKendree Gwin was born in Tennessee on October 9, 1805. After graduating from Transylvania University in Kentucky, Gwin practiced m...

Dr. Henry Daniel Cogswell (1820–1900) - Temperance Leader

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[Monument photos by Michael Colbruno] Plot 7 [Biography from Wikipedia; video shot by Michael Colbruno] Dr. Henry Daniel Cogswell (March 3, ...
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Sunday, July 22, 2007

Leonard Buck (1834-1895) - Farmer and Politician; Buck Family Trust

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[Gravesite photo by Michael Colbruno] Plot 14B Born on July 8, 1834, in Cortland County, N.Y., Buck attended the historic Cortland Academy. ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Glenn Lawrence Burke (1952-1995) - Invented "High FIve"

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[From Wikipedia] Glenn Burke was a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland Athletics from 1976 to 1979. Burke w...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Frederick Delger (1822-1898) - Millionaire Shoe Salesman

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[Family mausoleum photo by Michael Colbruno] Millionaire's Row Frederick Delger was one of the best known Alameda County pioneers of his...

Freda Ehmann (1839–1932) - Mother of Olive Oil Industry

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"...not how much, nor how inexpensive 
but how good a product can we produce?"

 This early mission statement was the slo...

Frank Norris (1870-1902) - Noted Author

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[Gravesite photo by Michael Colbruno] Plot 12 “No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single gen...
Friday, March 16, 2007

Francis Marion "Borax" Smith (1846-1931) - King of Borax

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[Family Mausoleum photo from Michael Colbruno] Plot 12 [From Wikipedia] Francis Marion Smith was an American business magnate and civic buil...
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Sara Plummer Lemmon (1836-1923) - Made Poppy the State Flower

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She and her husband John were both botanists who discovered a number of plant species. In California, she is best remembered for spearheadin...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Yee Ah Tye (died 1896) - Inspiration for "Bury My Bones in America"

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[Tye gravesite photo by Michael Colbruno] Plot 5 NE Yee Ah Tye came to California from China in 1852 to find the “Gold Mountain” and reap th...
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