Amador County is a county in the U.S. state of California, in the Sierra Nevada. As of the 2010 census, the population was 38,091. The county seat is Jackson. Amador County, located within California's Gold Country, is known as "The Heart of the Mother Lode". There is a substantial viticultural industry in the county.
Mark Hopkins was an American railroad executive. He was one of four principal investors that funded Theodore D. Judah's idea of building a railway over the Sierra Nevada from Sacramento, California to Promontory, Utah. They formed the Central Pacific Railroad along with Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Collis Huntington in 1861.
The Preston School of Industry, also known as Preston Castle, was a reform school located in Ione, California, in Amador County. It was proposed by, and ultimately named after, state senator Edward Myers Preston. The cornerstone was laid in December 1890, and the institution was opened in June 1894 when seven wards, were transferred there from San Quentin State Prison. It is considered one of the oldest and best-known reform schools in the United States.
William Henry Beatty was the 15th Chief Justice of California from 1889–1914. Previously, he was Chief Justice of the Nevada Supreme Court from 1879–1880.
Jackson Temple was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. He served three separate terms on the court between 1870 and 1902.
Warner Walton Cope, also known as W. W. Cope, was the sixth Chief Justice of California.
William Thompson Wallace was the 12th Chief Justice of California and the 6th Attorney General of California. He served on the Supreme Court of California from 1871 to 1879 and as Attorney General from 1856 to 1858.
Zachariah "Zach" Montgomery was a publisher, lawyer, politician, and author, particularly known for his skills as an orator.
Active was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast Survey, a predecessor of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, from 1852 to 1861. Active served on the U.S. West Coast. She conducted the Coast Survey's first reconnaissance from San Francisco, California, to San Diego, California, in 1852. Active sometimes stepped outside her normal Coast Survey duties to support U.S. military operations, serving as a troop transport and dispatch boat during various wars with Native Americans and during the San Juan Islands "Pig War" with the United Kingdom in 1859. She also rushed Union troops to Los Angeles, California, in 1861 during the early stages of the American Civil War.
William Cary Van Fleet was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Rancho Arroyo Seco was a 48,857-acre (197.72 km2) Mexican land grant in the northern San Joaquin Valley, primarily within present-day Amador County, California.
William George Lorigan was an American attorney and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from January 7, 1903, to January 19, 1919.
Walter Van Dyke was a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge and a justice of the California Supreme Court in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
On September 5, 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a member of the Manson Family cult, attempted to assassinate United States president Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California. She wanted to make a statement to people who refused to halt environmental pollution and its effects on air, trees, water, and animals (ATWA). Although Fromme stood a little more than an arm's length from Ford that Friday morning and pointed a M1911 pistol at him in the public grounds of the California State Capitol building, she had not chambered a round, the gun did not fire, and no one was injured. After the assassination attempt, Ford continued to walk to the California state house, where he met with Governor Jerry Brown. For her crime, Fromme spent 34 years in prison and was released on August 14, 2009 – two years and seven months after Ford's death. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, later received the M1911 pistol used in the assassination attempt as a gift, and the gun was put on display.
The California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) is a freely-available, archive of digitized California Newspapers; it is accessible through the project's website. The collection contains 433,033 issues comprising 4,976,984 pages and 32,437,924 articles. The project is part of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California Riverside.
Dr. Charles Boarman was an American pioneer and frontier physician. He was among the original pioneers to settle in present-day Amador County, California, serving as its first county physician from 1863 until 1880, and was one of the founding members of the Society of California Pioneers. He was also the son of Rear Admiral Charles Boarman and uncle of fellow pioneer doctor Charles B. Harris.
Charles Nelson Fox was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from June 25, 1889 to January 7, 1895.
James Dabney Thornton was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from January 5, 1880 to January 5, 1891.
Sabra Ann Rickey Greenhalgh was an educator, the first woman to hold a County elective position in Amador County, California.
Robert Marshall Briggs was an American merchant, lawyer, judge and politician in Wisconsin and California. Briggs served as a Whig member of the 2nd and 4th Wisconsin Legislatures representing Grant County in the Wisconsin State Assembly; and in 1857 was elected to the California State Assembly from Amador County as a Know-Nothing. He also served as a district attorney and a judge.
