WINGROVE HISTORY for CALIFORNIA of United States of America

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Early settlement in this area was primarily via Spanish discovers but it not until the mod 1700's that the Catholic Church started to build Missions to bring religion to the inhabitants. In 1821, Mexico achieved her independence and most of the missions' adobe churches and outbuildings soon fell into disrepair, Some ten years later large tracts of large were granted to white Californians or recently-arrived, well-connected immigrants from Mexico. The first United States citizens to come overland to California were trappers led by Jedediah Smith in 1826. The first organized group of settlers from the United States who crossed the Plains to California was the party led by John Bidwell and John Bartleson in 1841.

As word of the gold discovery spread in 1848, people came from all over the surrounding areas. President Polk's official announcement of the gold strike in his State of the Union message to Congress on December 5, 1848, brought an influx of immigrants from the rest of the United States. Close to 100,000 people went to California from the United States, Europe, and every other corner of the globe. Gold-seekers from Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and China continued to sail across the Pacific along well established trade routes. Finally, on September 9, 1850, President Fillmore signed the bill that gave California statehood. The first federal census conducted in California in 1860 counted 308,000 residents. At last the railroads came, and the end of California's physical isolation from the rest of the United States. Although railroad land grants discouraged a pattern of small family farms in California, they were a strong incentive for the railroads to encourage people in other parts of the country to visit or to settle in towns and cities. By 1900, American settlement had filled in the pockets of unmapped land in the Far West. Washington State and Oregon were admitted to the Union, and the Pacific Coast was occupied by three states running south from Canada to Mexico.

MELANCTHON WINGROVE
     Melancthon was born in Ontario and part of the original Wingrove family from St Ledgers Northamptonshire England. It was assumed that he left for Australia and indeed there is a record of a Melancthon Wingrove marrying in Australia. His grandson son Donald Wingrove states that part of the family was born in California, [ John Wingrove was born August 21, 1885 in Napa, California] but the entire family moved at some point to the State of Washington.

LAND RECORDS
        ALBERT L WINGROVE
                 Issue Date: May 5, 1923
                                 Acres: 120
Land Office: VISALIA CALIFORNIA
Aliquot Parts Sec/Blk Twnshp Range Fract.Sect. Meridian State Counties Survey

1 N½SW 32/ 13-S 27-E No MOUNT DIABLO CA FRESNO
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2 SWNW 32/ 13-S 27-E No MOUNT DIABLO CA FRESNO

     Telephone USA lists 11 Wingrove in present California
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          LILBURN S WINGROVE
                        Issue Date: April 9, 1914
                   Acres: 240    Homestead Act
     1 S½SW 29/ 23-S 31-E No MOUNT DIABLO CA TULARE
     2 SWSE 29/ 23-S 31-E No MOUNT DIABLO CA    TULARE
     3 N½SE 29/ 23-S 31-E No MOUNT DIABLO CA    TULARE
     4 SWSE 29/ 23-S 31-E No MOUNT DIABLO CA    TULARE
     5 S½SE 29/ 23-S 31-E No MOUNT DIABLO CA    TULARE
     6 N½SE 29/ 23-S 31-E No MOUNT DIABLO CA    TULARE

Some information is available on Lilburn and family originally from WV
                  * from SURNAMES
                  * History of Tulare County 1926
                      Lilburn S Wingrove California Hot Springs
                      Page 58 Photo Page 61 Page 319 Page 320
                  * URL: 8-98-Notes
                  *   URL: 2-99-Notes
                  *   URL: win_net98

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