When James Daniel Palmateer was born on 22 June 1847, in Branch, Michigan, United States, his father, Garrett Richard Palmatier, was 40 and his mother, Sybil Covell, was 37. He married Anna T. Davis on 22 January 1871, in Clackamas, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Elkhorn Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1920 and Oregon City, Clackamas, Oregon, United States in 1926. He died on 27 July 1926, in Clackamas, Oregon, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Lodi Memorial Park and Cemetery, Lodi, San Joaquin, California, United States.
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On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
Earliest Known Grave: Cintha A Davis BIRTH 27 Feb 1823 DEATH 25 Mar 1853 (aged 30) BURIAL Lodi Memorial Park and Cemetery Lodi, San Joaquin County, California, USA Show Map PLOT PIONEER II . BLOCK 86 . LOT 5 MEMORIAL ID 21761164
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Variant of Palmatier , a surname of French (and Walloon and Flemish) origin.
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