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Adams, Charles W. b. May 31, 1834 d. March 8, 1909
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He served in the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 12th Kansas Volunteer Infantry, being commissioned on September 30, 1862. He led the unit in engagements at Baxter Springs, Kansas, and Jenkin's Ferry and Camden, Arkansas. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on February 13, 1865, and was mustered out of service on June 30, 1865. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Plot: Plot 45, Grave 380 [unmarked]
Avery, Benjamin Parke b. November 11, 1828 d. November 8, 1875
Newspaper Editor, Author, Diplomat. He was trained as a wood engraver and relocated to California in the 1849 Gold Rush. He was a gold miner and owner of a general store until 1856, when he established a weekly newspaper in North San Juan, the Hydraulic Press. In 1860 he became Assistant Editor of another paper, the Marysville Appeal, and in 1861 was appointed California's State Printer. In the late 1860s Avery joined the San Francisco Bulletin, and in 1872 became Editor of the Overland...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Bartlett, Washington b. February 29, 1824 d. September 12, 1887
California Governor, San Francisco Mayor. Served as mayor of San Francisco, and was Governor of California for 9 months in 1887. First California governor to die in office. Died of Bright's disease. (Bio by: Barbara Smith)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Bashford, Coles b. January 24, 1816 d. April 25, 1878
Wisconsin Governor. Served as the Governor of Wisconsin from 1856 to 1858. He was defeated in 1855 as Republican. Also served as a Member of the Wisconsin State Senate in 1853, Arizona Territory Attorney General in 1864, Delegate to the United States Congress from Arizona Territory from 1867 to 1869, and Secretary of Arizona Territory in 1869. (Bio by: K)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Bechtel, Stephen D. b. 1900 d. March 14, 1989
Industrialist, The son of Warren Bechtel, he expanded the Bechtel firm.
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Plot: Main Mausoleum, ground floor
Bechtel, Warren A. b. September 12, 1872 d. August 28, 1933
Industrialist. Engineer. Founder of the international firm that bears his name.
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Plot: Main Mausoleum, ground floor
Bergeron Jr., Victor Jules 'Trader Vic' b. December 10, 1902 d. October 11, 1984
Businessman. He founded the Trader Vic's chain of Polynesian restaurants. At the height of "Tiki" popularity, Trader Vic's had more than two dozen locations around the world. The chain still survives today. Bergeron became acquainted with the food business as a child, when his father was a waiter at San Francisco's famed Fairmont Hotel and also ran a grocery store in Oakland. The family both lived above and worked in the store. At the age of 30, he opened a pub, originally called Hinky Dink's...[Read More] (Bio by: countedx58)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Plot: Main mausoleum, West entrance level, Tier 357
Blair, Walter b. April 2, 1830 d. January 17, 1888
Street railway magnate and dairy farmer with six hundred acres in Piedmont, California.
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
GPS coordinates: 37.8309288, -122.2406464 (hddd.dddd)
Blasdel, Henry Goode b. January 20, 1825 d. July 26, 1900
1st Nevada Governor. He served as Governor of Nevada from 1864 to 1870. He vetoed an act legalizing gambling.
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
GPS coordinates: 37.8318710, -122.2409134 (hddd.dddd)
Burke, Glenn b. November 16, 1952 d. May 30, 1995
Professional Baseball Player. He was born in Oakland and died in San Leandro (California). In 1972, Burke was recruited by the Los Angeles Dodgers and sent to play in the minor leagues in Utah, Washington, Connecticut, and New Mexico before being called on for "the show." Weighing a lean 220 pounds, his teammates nick named him King Kong. Also, he is credited with inventing the "high five" in 1977 when he ran out onto the field to congratulate his Los Angeles Dodgers teammate Dusty Baker for...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Plot: Plot 76. Grave 3171.
Clayton, Charles b. October 5, 1825 d. October 4, 1885
US Congressman. A native of England, Clayton came to the United States in 1842 and settled in California a few years later. In 1849 he was appointed Alcalde (Mayor) of Santa Clara until 1850. After moving to San Francisco, he was elected to the California State Assembly from 1863 until 1866, as well as to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864 until 1869. In 1873 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives representing California's 1st District until 1875. He also...[Read More] (Bio by: G.Photographer)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Coghlan, John Maxwell b. December 8, 1835 d. March 26, 1879
US Congressman. Elected to represent California's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1871 to 1873. He was defeated in 1872. Also served as a Member of the California State Assembly for the 18th District from 1865 to 1867, and United States District Attorney for the Northern District of California from 1876 to 1878. (Bio by: K)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Colton, David Doudy b. 1832 d. 1878
Businessman. He was associated with the 'big four' railroads, financing and politics. He owned 1,300 acre ranch near Mt. Diablo. The city of Colton, California was named after him.
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
GPS coordinates: 37.8313904, -122.2408066 (hddd.dddd)
Coon, Henry Perrin b. September 13, 1822 d. December 4, 1884
San Francisco Mayor. Served as the Mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1863 to 1867. Also served as a State Court Judge from 1856 to 1860. (Bio by: K)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Crocker, Charles 'Chas' b. September 16, 1822 d. August 14, 1888
Nineteenth Century businessman and railroad baron. Best known as the founder of the Central Pacific Railroad, Charles Crocker was born into a Troy, New York farm family in 1822. When he was fourteen, his family moved West to Iowa, where young Crocker struck out independently, doing farm, iron forge and sawmill work. Swept up in the 1849 Gold Rush, he led a party of Forty-Niners overland to California, arriving in Sacramento in 1850. Two years of gold mining convinced him that opening a dry...[Read More] (Bio by: Edward Parsons)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Plot: Section 35
Davidson, Henry Brevard b. January 28, 1831 d. March 4, 1899
Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He graduated from West Point in 1853 and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the First Dragoons Cavalry. From 1855 to 1861, he was involved in engagements with hostile Indians in Oregon and New Mexico. When the Civil War began, he resigned his commission as Captain in the Union Army and entered the service of the Confederate States. In 1862, he was appointed Colonel in command of the post at Staunton, Virginia and was promoted Brigadier General in...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Durant, Rev. Henry b. June 18, 1802 d. January 22, 1875
Educator, Oakland Mayor. Born in Acton, Massachusetts, Durant graduated from Yale in 1827 and was ordained a Congregational minister in 1833. In 1853 he moved out west after seeing the potential for education in the new state of California and went on to found Contra Costa Academy, which was renamed the College of California in 1855. In 1868 the College of California was merged with the Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College to form the newly established University of California, in...[Read More] (Bio by: G.Photographer)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Elisian, Edward Gulbeng 'Smokey' b. December 9, 1926 d. August 30, 1959
Race car driver. Elisian was an aggressive competitor whose style reminded many of his friend and idol, Bill Vukovich, Sr. During the 1955 Indianapolis 500, Elisian pulled his car off the track and ran to the site of Vukovich's accident. Elisian was later accused of causing the death of popular 1955 Indianapolis 500 winner, defending AAA champion and Midwest Sprint Car champion Bob Sweikert during a 1956 sprint car race at Salem, Indiana. Films of Sweikert's accident vindicated Elisian. Elisian...[Read More] (Bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)
Cause of death: automobile racing accident
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Plot: Plot 52D, Lot 466
English, Warren Barkley b. May 1, 1840 d. January 9, 1913
US Congressman. A native of what was then Charles Town, Virginia, English enlisted into the Confederate Army after the outbreak of the Civil War and served as a Private in Company B of the 12th Virginia Cavalry. At war's end, he moved west and settled in California. In 1877 he was elected to the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, serving until 1881, and in 1882 he was elected to the California State Senate. In 1894 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives representing...[Read More] (Bio by: G.Photographer)
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Folger, James A. b. June 17, 1835 d. June 26, 1889
Businessman. He is the founder of the "Folgers Coffee" firm, which still bears his name today.
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
Plot: Section 37

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