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The Alta California was a weekly publication established at San Francisco on January the 3rd 1849 by Samuel Brannan. It was the first newspaper of any importance issued in California, and arose from a consolidation of the older journals the Star and then Monterey Californian. In 1850 the Alta California commenced daily publication.
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The Union Pacific Railroad was the first railway built across North America. It started from the Missouri at Omaha and met the Central Pacific Railroad building eastwards from San Francisco.
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Henry Wager Halleck was an American soldier. He was born in 1815 at New York and died in 1872. He graduated at the US Military Academy in 1839 and entered the engineers. He published 'Elements of Military Art and Science' in 1846, which was a classic work at that time, and a treatise on 'International Law'. He was raised to the rank of captain for his services in the Mexican War. He was prominent in the military and political movements in California from 1846 to 1854. In 1854 he left the army and settled in San Francisco as a lawyer and director of a mining company. On the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 he was appointed major-general of the US army and assigned to the Department of Missouri,, and successfully organized that district. In 1862 he received command of the Mississippi Department, and was soon after appointed commander-in-chief of the army, a position he retained until Grant was made lieutenant-general. After the American Civil War he commanded the Pacific Division until 1869, and the Division of the South from 1869 to 1872.
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Jack London was an American writer. He was born in 1876 at San Francisco and died in 1916. He wrote The Call of the Wild and White Fang.
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Joe Montana is an American Football player. He was born in 1956 at New Eagle, Pennsylvania. He played as quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers from 1979 to 1993 before joining the Kansas City Chiefs and playing with them until 1995.
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Leland Stanford was an American capitalist and politician. He was born in 1824 at Watervliet, New York and died in 1893. In 1849 he went to Wisconsin to practise as a lawyer. In 1856 he was in San Francisco when his business career took off, and some years later he became renowned as a railway magnate, and as president of the Central Pacific Railroad he superintended its construction over the mountains.. He was a Republican governor of California from 1862 until 1863 and was elected a senator in 1884 and again in 1890. He founded Leland Stanford Junior University in memory of his son.
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Mark Twain (real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was an American writer. He was born in 1835 at Hannibal or possibly Florida, Missouri, and died in 1910. He started life as a compositor, in 1851 became a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi river, later taking his pseudonym from the call of the leadsman when reporting the soundings. After being a reporter on a newspaper in Virgina City, Nevada, he tried mining and journalism in San Francisco and in 1866 visited the Sandwich Islands.
He wrote several books based on the Mississippi river, including 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', in 1876 which explored the lawless side of vagrant boyhood and in 1883 'The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn'. His first story, however was 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' which appeared in The Californian in 1867. His first book, 'Innocents Abroad' was published in 1869 and was based upon his first visit to Europe, and established his reputation as a humorist.
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Robert Frost was an American poet. He was born in 1875 at San Francisco and died in 1963.
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Barry Nelson is an American actor. He was born in 1920 at San Francisco, California.
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Bradd Wong (BD Wong) is an American actor and film director. He was born in 1962 at San Francisco, California.
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