San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
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Wikipedia 2015:
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
The only consolidated city-county in California, San Francisco encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km2) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 18,187 people per square mile (7,022 people per km2). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated major city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in California, after Los Angeles, San Diego and San Jose, and the 14th-most populous city in the United States—with a Census-estimated 2014 population of 852,469. The city and its surroundings are known as the San Francisco Bay Area, part of the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland combined statistical area, with an estimated population of 8.5 million.
San Francisco (Spanish for "Saint Francis") was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for St. Francis of Assisi a few miles away. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. Due to the growth of its population, San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "hippie" counterculture, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines.
San Francisco is a popular tourist destination, known for its cool summers, fog, steep rolling hills, eclectic mix of architecture, and landmarks including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former prison on Alcatraz Island, and its Chinatown district. San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., the Gap Inc., Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation and Craigslist. San Francisco has many nicknames including "The City by the Bay", "Fog City", "San Fran", "Frisco" (controversial), "The City that Knows How" (antiquated), "Baghdad by the Bay" (antiquated), "The Paris of the West".
History:
The earliest archaeological evidence of human habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. The Yelamu group of the Ohlone people resided in a few small villages when an overland Spanish exploration party, led by Don Gaspar de Portolà arrived on November 2, 1769, the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay. Seven years later, on March 28, 1776, the Spanish established the Presidio of San Francisco, followed by a mission, Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores), established by the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza.
Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the area became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the mission system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, near a boat anchorage around what is today Portsmouth Square. Together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7, 1846, during the Mexican-American War, and Captain John B. Montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, and Mexico officially ceded the territory to the United States at the end of the war. Despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography.
The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers. With their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. California was quickly granted statehood, and the U.S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate and a fort on Alcatraz Island to secure the San Francisco Bay. Silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, and gambling.
Entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush. Early winners were the banking industry, with the founding of Wells Fargo in 1852 and the Bank of California in 1864. Development of the Port of San Francisco and the establishment in 1869 of overland access to the Eastern U.S. rail system via the newly completed Pacific Railroad (the construction of which the city only reluctantly helped support) helped make the Bay Area a center for trade. Catering to the needs and tastes of the growing population, Levi Strauss opened a dry goods business and Domingo Ghirardelli began manufacturing chocolate. Immigrant laborers made the city a polyglot culture, with Chinese railroad workers, drawn to "Old Gold Mountain", creating the city's Chinatown quarter. In 1870, Asians made up 8% of the population. The first cable cars carried San Franciscans up Clay Street in 1873. The city's sea of Victorian houses began to take shape, and civic leaders campaigned for a spacious public park, resulting in plans for Golden Gate Park. San Franciscans built schools, churches, theaters, and all the hallmarks of civic life. The Presidio developed into the most important American military installation on the Pacific coast. By 1890, San Francisco's population approached 300,000, making it the eighth-largest city in the U.S. at the time. Around 1901, San Francisco was a major city known for its flamboyant style, stately hotels, ostentatious mansions on Nob Hill, and a thriving arts scene. The first North American plague epidemic was the San Francisco plague of 1900–1904.
At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a major earthquake struck San Francisco and northern California. As buildings collapsed from the shaking, ruptured gas lines ignited fires that spread across the city and burned out of control for several days. With water mains out of service, the Presidio Artillery Corps attempted to contain the inferno by dynamiting blocks of buildings to create firebreaks. More than three-quarters of the city lay in ruins, including almost all of the downtown core. Contemporary accounts reported that 498 people lost their lives, though modern estimates put the number in the several thousands. More than half of the city's population of 400,000 was left homeless. Refugees settled temporarily in makeshift tent villages in Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, on the beaches, and elsewhere. Many fled permanently to the East Bay.
Rebuilding was rapid and performed on a grand scale. Rejecting calls to completely remake the street grid, San Franciscans opted for speed. Amadeo Giannini's Bank of Italy, later to become Bank of America, provided loans for many of those whose livelihoods had been devastated. The influential San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association or SPUR was founded in 1910 to address the quality of housing after the earthquake. The earthquake hastened development of western neighborhoods that survived the fire, including Pacific Heights, where many of the city's wealthy rebuilt their homes. In turn, the destroyed mansions of Nob Hill became grand hotels. City Hall rose again in splendorous Beaux Arts style, and the city celebrated its rebirth at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915.
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Nachname, Taufnamen  |
Geburt  |
Personen-Kennung | ||
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| 51 |  Sullivan, Edna Elizabeth | 11 Feb 1925 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I95206 |
| 52 | Walsh, Elizabeth E. | 6 Dez 1902 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I137107 |
| 53 | Warren, Herbert Jr. | 14 Aug 1929 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I234746 |
| 54 | Whitfield, Robert P. | 1920 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I8718 |
| 55 | Winsor, Gerald Clifford | 19 Jan 1944 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I31111 |
| 56 | Zimbelman, George Raymond | 11 Sep 1887 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I195116 |
Treffer 51 bis 88 von 88
| Nachname, Taufnamen |
Tod |
Personen-Kennung | ||
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| 51 | Manck, Emma Philippina | 29 Apr 1972 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I230395 |
| 52 | Matthis, Maude Irene | 16 Nov 1955 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I32568 |
| 53 | McNulty, Patrick Peter | 3 Mai 1967 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I5910 |
| 54 | Meiszner, Margaretha | 23 Apr 1965 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I261617 |
| 55 | Miller, Henrietta Sykes | 13 Jan 1950 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I26086 |
| 56 | Miller, Howard Bunion | 12 Mai 2002 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I5911 |
| 57 | Miller, Katherine | 19 Mai 1988 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I5908 |
| 58 | Moody, Ida May | Datum unbekannt | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I25588 |
| 59 | Moser, William Jr. | 12 Sep 1974 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I132952 |
| 60 | Motl, Albert A. | 10 Apr 2003 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I26378 |
| 61 | O'Neill, Mary Philomena | 30 Okt 1945 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I31242 |
| 62 | Ochsner, Elizabeth | 19 Aug 1948 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I7609 |
| 63 | Offenberg, Jacobus H. | 19 Feb 1877 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I31266 |
| 64 | Offenberg, Jean Lambert | 31 Jul 1887 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I31253 |
| 65 | Offenberg, Josephine Marie Jeane | 20 Sep 1930 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I26619 |
| 66 | Pippus, Evelyn K. | Jan 1976 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I234744 |
| 67 | Ramsay, John Allan Sr. | 6 Apr 1936 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I26316 |
| 68 | Ramsay, John Allan Jr. | 12 Dez 1965 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I26317 |
| 69 | Rau, James Allen | 1 Nov 1944 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I117544 |
| 70 | Rawlings, Emily Marie | 9 Jan 1970 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I97435 |
| 71 | Rennich, Elisabetha | 26 Mai 1989 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I172391 |
| 72 | Saulay, Rose Celina | 4 Mai 1903 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I31252 |
| 73 | Schatz, Andreas Julius | 10 Aug 1951 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I262029 |
| 74 | Schauer, Magdalena | 8 Jul 1944 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I62328 |
| 75 | Scheerer, Unbekannt | 1957 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I157702 |
| 76 | Schori, Michael Oscar | 11 Mai 1984 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I230398 |
| 77 | Schori, Rose | Datum unbekannt | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I230397 |
| 78 | Stanly, Edward | 12 Jul 1872 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I30922 |
| 79 | Stine, Vance David | 31 Jan 1957 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I340 |
| 80 | Strause, Moses | Jun 1951 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I269124 |
| 81 | Vansickle, Uma | 7 Mrz 1954 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I24304 |
| 82 | Walters, Arthur | 1937 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I4022 |
| 83 | Weigum, Erna Katherine | 15 Aug 1980 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I89065 |
| 84 | Werle, Charles Armand | 23 Dez 1916 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I88835 |
| 85 | Williams, Amy Ruth | um 2014 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I271467 |
| 86 | Wittmayer, Edwin Irvin | 18 Mai 1963 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I3670 |
| 87 | Yerzy, George Albrecht | 20 Jul 1952 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I26377 |
| 88 | Zimbelman, Letha Lydia | 24 Jun 1967 | San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA | I4210 |