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The California Gold Rush started in January 1848, when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill. As news of the discovery spread, some 300,000 people came to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.

These early gold-seekers, called "Forty-Niners," traveled to California by sailing ship and in covered wagons across the continent, often facing substantial hardship on the trip. While most of the newly-arrived were Americans, the Gold Rush also attracted tens of thousands from Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. At first, the prospectors retrieved the gold from streams and riverbeds using simple techniques, such as panning, and later developed more sophisticated methods of gold recovery which were adopted around the world. Gold worth billions of today's dollars was recovered, leading to great wealth for some; others, however, returned home with little more than they started with.
The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. San Francisco grew from a tiny hamlet of tents to a boomtown, and roads, churches, schools and other towns were built. A system of laws and a government was created, leading to the admission of California as a state in 1850. New methods of transportation developed as steamships came into regular service and railroads were built. The business of agriculture, California's next major growth field, was started on a wide scale throughout the state. However, the Gold Rush also had negative effects: Native Americans were attacked and pushed off traditional lands, and gold mining caused environmental harm.

	Anthony Deyo Woolsey, arrives in San Francisco, California, July 13, 1852.
	Eburn Haight Woolsey, 1836 - 1900
	E. L. Woolsey, SS Tahmawo, sailed from NY 27 Jan. 185__, to California.
	Fethias Woolsey - California gold fields about 1851, returned home about 1857.
	Jesse Woolsey, 1828 - ?
	John Woolsey - brother of Fethias (1820-1913), John was killed in a mining accident.
	James Bradshaw Woolsey - California gold fields about 1850, mine near Timberville.
	James Warner Woolsey "A Lucky Striker" 1826-1885
	James Hopkins Woolsey - earned $4.00 a day in the gold fields.
	King S Woolsey - California miner for nearly a decade, no record of his success in this venture.
	Leander John Woolsey VI - Death Valley, California in 1849.
	Richard I Woolsey, 1831 - 1860
	Samuel Woolsey, 1825 - ?
	Thomas D Woolsey
	William Andrew Woolsey
	W. Woolsey born in 1802 in Pennsylvania. Nothing further is known of him.