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  1. May 6, 2024 · On January 24 his carpenter, James W. Marshall, found flakes of gold in a streambed. Sutter and Marshall agreed to become partners and tried to keep their find a secret. News of the discovery, however, soon spread, and they were besieged by thousands of fortune seekers.

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  2. May 16, 2024 · James Marshall famously discovered gold in the American River there in 1848, two years before Rufus Burgess arrived in 1850. Rufus Burgess mined gold in the river to buy his way out of bondage....

  3. 5 days ago · The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [2]

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  5. 1 day ago · John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fourth-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, and is widely regarded ...

  6. May 3, 2024 · John Marshall was the fourth chief justice of the United States and principal founder of the U.S. system of constitutional law. As perhaps the Supreme Court’s most influential chief justice, Marshall was responsible for constructing and defending both the foundation of judicial power and the.

  7. 6 days ago · Defense attorney and former Alamosa resident James Marshall has been sentenced to 11 years in the Department of Corrections in connection to shooting Danny Pruitt in the back of the head during a local Black Lives Matter protest in June of 2020.

  8. May 8, 2024 · May 8, 2024. Emeritus Chemistry Professor Dr. James Marshall Receives American Chemical Society's HIST Award. A project that took 12 years to complete by University of North Texas College of Science Emeritus Professor James Marshall and his late wife, Virginia "Jenny" Marshall, is now getting international recognition.

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