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John Sutter [1809-1880] American
Rank: 105
Celebrity, Business person


Johann Augustus Sutter, born Johann August Suter, was a German-born Swiss pioneer of California known for his association with the California Gold Rush by the discovery of gold by James W.


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The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
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I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
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In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but he thought it might be; immediately I made the proof and found that it was gold.
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