EARLY SETTLERS WHO LEFT IN SEARCH OF GOLD The
following early settlers joined the great white fleet that in 1849 and
1850 crossed the plains and entered California in search of gold: | Henry Felkner | Philip Clark | Eli Myers | | Jacob Stover | Willis Ogle | William & Robert Hamilton | | John B. Adams | John Linderman | Peter H. Patterson | | Henry Walker | William T. Sweet | Thomas Miller | | Jeremiah Stover | Robert Hutchinson | Charles Pratt | | Samuel J. Hess | James M. Adams | Eben M. Adams | | Bryan Dennis | Strawder Devault | George W. Hess | | William P. Teneick | J. Y. Stover | Alonzo B. Newcomb | | Newton Butler | | |
Many more settlers, who are unnamed joined them.
Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen, Iowa City, IA, 27 Sep 1903, Pg 3; Written by Gil. R. Irish, Article XLI
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