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William Chapman Ralston

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William "Billy" Chapman Ralston (January 12, 1826 – August 27, 1875) was a San Francisco, California businessman and financier, and was the founder of the Bank of California. [1]

39 relations: Asbury Harpending, Bancroft Library, Bank of California, Belmont, California, California State Route 92, California Theatre (San Francisco), Columbiana County, Ohio, Comstock Lode, Death Valley Days, Diamond hoax of 1872, Eadweard Muybridge, Investor, Irrigation, Market Street (San Francisco), Miriam Leslie, Modesto, California, National Register of Historic Places, Nevada, New Montgomery Street, Notre Dame de Namur University, Ohio, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Panic of 1873, Philip Arnold, Ralston Hall, Reno, Nevada, Robert Maitland Brereton, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Joaquin Valley, Shakespeare, New Mexico, Spanish language, Stroke, Suicide, U.S. Route 101 in California, Vaughn Taylor (actor), Wellsville, Ohio, William Sharon.

Asbury Harpending

Asbury Harpending (September 14, 1839 – January 26, 1923), an adventurer and financier in San Francisco, California, Mexico, and New York City.

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Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library.

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Bank of California

The Bank of California was opened in San Francisco, California, on July 4, 1864, by William Chapman Ralston.

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Belmont, California

Belmont is a city in San Mateo County in the U.S. state of California.

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California State Route 92

State Route 92 (SR 92) is an east-west highway in the San Francisco Bay area between Half Moon Bay near the coast (and State Route 1) in the west and downtown Hayward at its junction with State Route 238 and State Route 185.

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California Theatre (San Francisco)

The California Theatre (San Francisco), was located at 414 (now 440) Bush Street, San Francisco.

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Columbiana County, Ohio

Columbiana County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Comstock Lode

The Comstock Lode is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada (then western Utah Territory).

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Death Valley Days

Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area.

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Diamond hoax of 1872

The diamond hoax of 1872 was a swindle in which a pair of prospectors sold a false American diamond deposit to prominent businessmen in San Francisco and New York City.

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Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection.

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Investor

An investor is a person that allocates capital with the expectation of a future financial return.

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Irrigation

Irrigation is the application of controlled amounts of water to plants at needed intervals.

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Market Street (San Francisco)

Market Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California.

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Miriam Leslie

Miriam Florence Squier Leslie (nee Folline, June 5, 1836 – September 18, 1914) was an American publisher and author.

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Modesto, California

Modesto (Spanish for "modest"), officially the City of Modesto, is the county seat and largest city of Stanislaus County, California, United States.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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New Montgomery Street

New Montgomery Street, formerly Montgomery Street South, begins at Market Street and terminates at Howard Street in the SOMA district of San Francisco, California.

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Notre Dame de Namur University

Notre Dame de Namur University (NDNU) — formerly the College of Notre Dame — is a private coeducational Catholic university located in Belmont, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Palace Hotel, San Francisco

The Palace Hotel is a landmark historic hotel in San Francisco, California, located at the southwest corner of Market and New Montgomery streets.

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Panic of 1873

The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered a depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 until 1879, and even longer in some countries (France and Britain).

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Philip Arnold

Philip Arnold (1829–1878) was a confidence trickster from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and the brains behind the legendary diamond hoax of 1872, which fooled people into investing in a phony diamond mining operation.

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Ralston Hall

Ralston Hall Mansion located in Belmont, California, was the country house of William Chapman Ralston, a San Francisco businessman, founder of the Bank of California, and financier of the Comstock Lode.

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Reno, Nevada

Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada, located in the western part of the state, approximately from Lake Tahoe.

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Robert Maitland Brereton

Robert Maitland Brereton (2 January 1834 – 7 December 1911) was an English railway engineer in India.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Public Utilities Commission

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is a public agency of the City and County of San Francisco that provides water, wastewater, and electric power services to the city and an additional 1.9 million customers within three San Francisco Bay Area counties.

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San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River.

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Shakespeare, New Mexico

Shakespeare is a ghost town in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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U.S. Route 101 in California

U.S. Route 101 (US 101) in the state of California is one of the last remaining and longest U.S. Routes still active in the state, and the longest highway of any kind in California.

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Vaughn Taylor (actor)

Vaughn Taylor (February 22, 1910 – April 26, 1983) was an American film and television actor.

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Wellsville, Ohio

Wellsville is a village in Columbiana County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River.

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William Sharon

William Tang Sharon (January 9, 1821November 13, 1885) was a United States Senator from Nevada who profited from the Comstock Lode.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chapman_Ralston

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