When Robert Albert Bridges Sr was born on 16 May 1836, in Franklin, Ohio, United States, his father, William Erskine Bridges, was 22 and his mother, Terressa Morse, was 22. He married Eliza McCormick Powell on 3 June 1880, in Richfield, Sevier, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 17 October 1901, in Bruneau Valley, Owyhee, Idaho, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Owyhee, Idaho, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
English: variant of Bridge . The -s generally represents the genitive case, but may occasionally be a plural. In some cases this name denoted someone from the Flemish city of Bruges (Brugge) in Belgium, meaning ‘bridges’, which had extensive trading links with England in the Middle Ages.
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