My mining merchants padlet:) by Alexis Archuleta https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2 Made by Alexis Archuleta en-us 2017-02-07 18:30:47 UTC 2017-05-17 09:59:15 UTC hello@padlet.com Lucy Stoddward Wakefeld 622396 https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152251535 They had a few sick people.,She loved California and wanted to make it her final resting place.She has been toiling hard for the last two and a half years and is still doing almost incredible amount of work averaging about 20 dozen pies weekly with her own hands correspondent.]]> 2017-02-07 18:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152251535 John Studebaker 622396 https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152258365 Nineteen year old John joined a wagon train and came west to search for gold. Instead, he made wheelbarrows.
When the young man arrived at Old Dry Diggings now Placer village it was the last day of August 1853.


]]> 2017-02-07 18:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152258365 Philip Armour 622396 https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152259144 Philip Danforth Armour was born in 1832 on the family farm in upstate New York. At 19, he left for the California gold rush and had made $8,000 by the time he was 24 .                   
             


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]]> 2017-02-07 18:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152259144 Luzena Stanley Wilson 622396 https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152260833 During the Gold Rush businesses boomed. Between 1849
and 1855, almost 200,000 people came to California. They
were nearly all consumers, who needed goods and services.
Miners needed food.]]> 2017-02-07 18:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152260833 Mark Hopkins 622396 https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152262740 Mark Hopkins was a New York City bookkeeper when he caught word of gold. He immediately got himself to Sacramento and headed north to prospect. Rumors of misfortune in the mountains ahead caused him to return to the city.]]> 2017-02-07 19:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152262740 Leland Stanford 622396 https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152264039 Much like his future partners, Leland Stanford remade himself in gold rush California as a shopkeeper In 1852, fed up with lawyering, he left the Midwest to become a partner in a wholesale grocery business founded by his brothers.]]> 2017-02-07 19:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152264039 Mifflin Winstar Gibbs 622396 https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152265036 Jonathan C. Gibbs died in 1831, leaving his wife with four small children and little money. Eight-year-old Mifflin Gibbs was sent to work, driving a doctor’s horse at first and eventually becoming a carpenter’s apprentice. ]]> 2017-02-07 19:07:05 UTC https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152265036 John Augustus Sutter 622396 https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152265759 n May 1834, he left his wife and five children behind in Burgdorf, Switzerland, and with a French passport he boarded the ship Sully which travelled from Le havre,France, to New York City where it arrived on July 14, 1834.]]> 2017-02-07 19:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152265759 James Marshall 622396 https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152268504 James Wilson Marshall, of English descent, was born to Philip Marshall and Sarah Wilson (married 1808) at the family homestead in Hopewell Township,New Jersey.]]> 2017-02-07 19:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/622396/cmo8kksmkqh2/wish/152268504