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Whitehead, James (d.1885)


BORN IN: near Clifton, London
DIED: 12/17/1885
AGED: 44
DEATH LOCATION: San Mateo

OCCUPATION: Saloon Keeper

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CURRENT EVENTS:
  • 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
  • 1846 Mexican-American War
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
From the public domain book: History of San Mateo County, California , published in 1883

James Whitehead

James Whitehead was born in Prince Edward's Isle, June 4, 1841, and comes of that sturdy race of civilizers who left the healthy moor and romantic glens of Scotland to populate other lands with a people whose energy, genius and patriotism have ever been a bulwark for the countries where they may settle. Mr. Whitehead went to Texas in 1859 and remained there about three years, returning at the end of that time to his native land. A year later he came to California, and after sojourning in Solano and other interior counties finally came to San Mateo and settled at Half Moon Bay, where he lived until he came to the town of San Mateo, in 1874. This has been his home since that time. He married Margaret L. Nash in 1875.


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