William Watt (miner)

William Watt (July 14, 1828 – July 5, 1878) was a California Gold Rush mining executive, California State Senator, Regent of the University of California,[1] Director of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad,[2] and owner of the Grass Valley Telegraph, the first newspaper in that town.[3]

  1. ^ United States. Congress (1870). Congressional edition (Public domain ed.). U.S. G.P.O. pp. 71–. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  2. ^ Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1890). The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Nevada, colorado, and Wyoming. 1890 (Public domain ed.). A. L. Bancroft & company. pp. 590–. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
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