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    Benjamin Davis Wilson (December 1, 1811 – March 11, 1878), commonly known as Don Benito Wilson, was an American-Mexican politician, fur trapper, and ranchero...
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    County District Attorney in 1887. Patton married the daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson, one of California's wealthiest men, and moved with his family to...
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  • Ben Wilson (musician) (born 1967), American musician and keyboardist for the band Blues Traveler Benjamin Davis Wilson (a.k.a. Don Benito Wilson, 1811–1878)...
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    California, to George Smith Patton Sr. and his wife, Ruth Wilson, the daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson, the second mayor of Los Angeles, and Margaret Hereford...
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    Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. (December 18, 1912 – July 4, 2002) was a United States Air Force (USAF) general and commander of the World War II Tuskegee Airmen...
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    Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. (July 1, 1877 – November 26, 1970) was a career officer in the United States Army. One of the few black officers in an era when...
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    Rubidoux in 1847, after purchasing a portion of the Rancho Jurupa from Benjamin Davis Wilson, the second elected mayor of Los Angeles. Tom Patterson, as well...
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  • conservator, Benjamin Davis Wilson. She lost control of the property that she had acquired and greatly expanded during the Mexican era. In 1854, Wilson produced...
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    reopened. Mount Wilson had always been active with human passage starting from the days of the local Native Americans. It was Benjamin Davis Wilson who established...
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    property the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas. In 1854, she sold the ranch to Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811–1878) and Henry Hancock (1822–1883). By the 1880s, the ranch...
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    exploration of the mountain was performed by Benjamin Davis Wilson, also known as "Don Benito". Wilson, who was the grandfather of George S. Patton,...
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    Laura Scudder Benjamin Davis Wilson AKA Don Benito Wilson About us - San Gabriel Cemetery's website Read, Nat B. (2008). Don Benito Wilson: From Mountain...
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  • 1859, he sold it to Benjamin Davis Wilson, of early Pasadena development, the second Mayor of Los Angeles, and namesake for Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel...
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  • Mexico and the United States was declared, about 20 Americans led by Benjamin Davis Wilson assembled at Isaac Williams' Rancho Santa Ana del Chino. Williams...
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    following the defeat in the Mexican–American War. A wealthy developer, Benjamin Davis Wilson, married Ramona Yorba, daughter of Bernardo Yorba, who owned the...
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  • footballer Benjamin Wilson (painter) (1721–1788), English painter and scientist Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811–1878), aka Don Benito Wilson, politician...
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  • not to the subject of this entry. Jones became an assistant to Benjamin Davis Wilson, known as "Don Benito," who was elected the first Los Angeles County...
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  • Representative from Pennsylvania 1923–27. Nephew of John Patton. Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811–1878), Mayor of Los Angeles, California 1851–52; California...
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    California in 1869 to farm land. Attended Wilson College, California, coed opened by Benjamin Davis Wilson and the Methodist Church, start in 1874 at...
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    government returned the land to its original donors, Phineas Banning and Benjamin Davis Wilson, after auctioning off the buildings. Not surprisingly, there were...
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    Institución Caratitiva, in the former residence of a former mayor, Benjamin Davis Wilson. The order then opened the Los Angeles Infirmary in 1858. In 1870...
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    entertaining Christmas scenarios displayed about the labyrinth of homes. Benjamin Davis Wilson The neighborhood overall is served by Metro Local micro; Pasadena...
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    years, such as Louis Rubidoux, John A. Rowland, William Workman, Benjamin Davis Wilson, and William Wolfskill. The trail was also used for illicit purposes...
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  • became a prominent lawyer and married into the wealthy family of Benjamin Davis Wilson (see also George S. Patton, Jr.). Her daughter Eleanor Thornton...
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    reopened. Mount Wilson had always been active with human passage starting from the days of the local Indians. It was Benjamin Davis Wilson who established...
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    the city surveyor for Los Angeles. In 1854, Hancock, along with Benjamin Davis Wilson, bought Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas. Hancock was elected to the California...
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    Mansa near today's Colton in the Riverside-San Bernardino area. Benjamin Davis Wilson of Tennessee, a fellow fur trapper in Taos, a couple of years before...
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    Lake area. Benjamin Davis Wilson encountered the lake in 1845, while tracking horse thieves in the San Bernardino Mountains. When Wilson saw that the...
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    August 21, 2011. "Geena Davis' Husband Files For Divorce". TMZ. May 8, 2018. Retrieved August 26, 2018. VanHoose, Benjamin. "Geena Davis and Ex Reza Jarrahy...
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  • gunfire and no casualties, Workman, his lieutenant John Rowland, Benjamin Davis Wilson, and James McKinley from the Pico side worked out a surrender option...
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