| 词条 | William Watt (miner) |
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Personal lifeWatt was born in Scotland, and spent his early years as a marine engineer.[3] He came to the US when he was 20 and by 1852 was in California.[5] He was a Royal Arch Mason.[4] CareerHe participated in the California Gold Rush by working and purchasing mines in the Grass Valley area. Watt was superintendent and part owner of the Eureka Mine.[5][6] He also owned the Massachusetts Mine in Grass Valley and discovered the Derbec Mine (near North Bloomfield).[7] From 1861 until 1863, he served as California State Senator from Nevada County. He served as Regent from 1868 until his resignation in 1871, when he became a candidate for Governor of California on the Democratic Party ticket.[8] Watt died in North Bloomfield, California following an accident involving runaway buggy.[9] References1. ^{{cite book|author=United States. Congress|title=Congressional edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=71BHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA71|accessdate=30 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1870|publisher=U.S. G.P.O.|pages=71–}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Watt, William}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Bancroft|first=Hubert Howe|title=The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Nevada, colorado, and Wyoming. 1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTnVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA590|accessdate=30 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1890|publisher=A. L. Bancroft & company|pages=590–}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Curtis|first=Edward|title=Two California sketches: William Watt, representative miner, a tribute to his memory. Leland Stanford, ex-governor of California and president of the Central Pacific Railroad, a biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0oOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA12|accessdate=30 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1880|publisher=Thomas' Steam Printing House|pages=12–}} 4. ^1 {{cite book|title=Bean's history and directory of Nevada County, California: Containing a complete history of the county, with sketches of the various towns and mining camps ... also, full statistics of mining and all other industrial resources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHFNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA200|accessdate=30 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1867|publisher=Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office|pages=195, 200–}} 5. ^{{cite book|author1=United States. Dept. of the Treasury|author2=Rossiter Worthington Raymond|title=Statistics of mines and mining in the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains: being the [1st-8th] annual report of Rossiter W. Raymond, U.S. commissioner of mining statistics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAbOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA23|accessdate=30 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1869|publisher=Govt. Print. Off.|pages=23–}} 6. ^{{cite book|title=The Railway news ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYQqAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA33|accessdate=30 December 2011|edition=Public domain|year=1870|pages=33–}} 7. ^{{cite book|last=Brower|first=Maria E.|title=Gold Rush Towns of Nevada County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKBh_CIbMLQC&pg=PA2|accessdate=30 December 2011|date=October 2006|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-4692-6|pages=2–}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=19694|title=CANDIDATES FOR NOMINATION|date= January 28, 1871|work=Vol. 1 , No. 51|publisher=Democratic Standard |accessdate=31 December 2011|location=San Luis Obispo, California }} 9. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/overview/regents/biographies_w.html|title=Regents of the University of California|date=May 28, 2004|publisher=The Regents of the University of California|accessdate=30 December 2011}} 7 : California state senators|University of California regents|1828 births|1878 deaths|People of the California Gold Rush|People from Grass Valley, California|19th-century American politicians |
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