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• Best, Clarence Leo   b. April 21, 1878  d. September 22, 1951
  Industrialist, Businessman. Co-founder of the Caterpillar Tractor Company. Born the son of tractor manufacturing pioneer Daniel Best in Albany, Oregon, he began working for his father's company, the Best Manufacturing Company, right after high school. In 1908, his father sold the company to chief rival Benjamin Holt and his Holt Manufacturing Company and Clarence, who remained with the company after the sale, was appointed manager of the company's San Leandro plant. In 1910 he left Holt to...[Read More] (Bio by: G.Photographer)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
  Plot: Evergreen Chapel
   
• Best, Daniel   b. March, 1838  d. August 22, 1923
  Inventor, Industrialist. A native of Ohio, Best came to California in 1869 to work on his brother's ranch after having failed at gold mining in Oregon. Discovering the amount of work it took to take grain into town for cleaning and separating, he began his inventing career when he invented and patented a transportable grain cleaner in 1871. In 1885 he developed his first combined harvester. In 1886 he founded the Daniel Best Agricultural Works in San Leandro, later renamed the Best...[Read More] (Bio by: G.Photographer)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
  Plot: Evergreen Chapel
   
• Foelker, Otto Godfrey    b. December 29, 1875  d. January 18, 1943
  US Congressman. Elected to represent New York's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1908 to 1911. Also served as a Member of the New York State Assembly in 1905, and Member of the New York State Senate from 1907 to 1908. (Bio by: K)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
   
• Fuller, Jesse    b. March 12, 1896  d. January 29, 1976
  Blues Musician. A native of Jonesboro, Georgia, he had taught himself to play a homemade musical instrument by the age of 5. When he was about 10 years old, Fuller ran away from home, making his way to Atlanta, Georgia. After playing music in Atlanta for a short time, he became a hobo and made his way to California, eventually settling there. In 1924, he appeared as an extra in the movie "The Thief of Bagdad." He appeared as an extra in several other films throughout the remainder of the 1920's...[Read More] (Bio by: Adam Maroney)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
   
• Fuller, Johnny   b. April 20, 1929  d. May 20, 1985
  Johnny Fuller was born in Edwards, Mississippi, but moved to Vallejo, California with his parents as a young child. As a child, he taught himself to play guitar and by his teenage years, he formed a gospel group known as the "Gold West Gospel Singers." By the early 1950's, he began recording for the Heritage Record label in Oakland, California. During this time, he taught himself to play the piano and the organ. As the 1950's progressed, Fuller toured the United States with various rock and...[Read More] (Bio by: Adam Maroney)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
   
• Hines, Earl Kenneth 'Fatha'    b. December 28, 1905  d. April 23, 1983
  Musician, pianist, and composer known for his work with Louis Armstrong. He wrote the classic "Blues in Thirds" and also "A Monday Date." (Bio by: Ron Moody)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
   
• Hoskins, Allen 'Farina'    b. August 9, 1920  d. July 26, 1980
  Actor. Born Allen Clayton Hoskins, he was the character of Farina in the Our Gang short films from 1922 to 1931. Farina was intended to be the typical pickaninny in the tradition of the character Topsy from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Later on, as his character became one of the better known ones, Allen developed the character in his own special style apart from the stereotype he was original cast as. He got the name "Farina" from a type of cereal. While acting in Our Gang, Farina became one of its...[Read More]
  Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
  Plot: Serenity A, Base 19, Row 3
   
• Jonestown Mass Grave    d. November 18, 1978
  Memorial to the hundreds of people who died in the Jonestown (religious cult) Tragedy. This is the grave of 412 unclaimed victims of the mass suicide.
  Cause of death: Drinking poisoned punch
  Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
  Plot: Garden Remembrance by the Mausoleum
   
• Newton, Huey P.   b. February 17, 1942  d. August 22, 1989
  Co-founder of the militant African-American activist group called the Black Panther Party. Born in Louisiana, Newton's family moved to Oakland when he was young. In 1966, he co-founded the Black Panther Party with fellow activist Bobby Seale in Oakland, and would remain the leader until 1973. Although the party set up free clinics and food distributing sites, and strived to end drug use in African-American neighborhoods, their militant attitude and habits of monitoring police officers lead to...[Read More] (Bio by: Mongoose)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
   
• Swap, Jacob E.    b. August 12, 1846  d. January 22, 1925
  Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Born in Calnehoose, New York, he entered the Union Army at Springs, Pennsylvania and served as a Private in Company H, 83d Pennsylvania Infantry. His Medal of Honor action occurred May 5, 1864 at Wilderness, Virginia. His citation (issued November 19, 1897) reads: "Although assigned to other duty, he voluntarily joined his regiment in a charge and fought with it until severely wounded." Judge Swap, as he would later become known due to his...[Read More] (Bio by: Lawrence Hildebrand)
  Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
  Plot: Garden of Devotion, Row 10, Sp 55
   

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