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Fremont County was named for John Charles Frémont, an explorer of the American West, Senator from California, and 1856 Republican presidential candidate.
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* 1973 – The Cañon City meteorite, a 1. 4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
Sublette County was created February 15, 1921, with land detached from Fremont County and Lincoln County
In 1916, General Motors opened a major Chevrolet automobile factory in East Oakland, making cars and then trucks until 1963, when it was moved to Fremont in southern Alameda County.
Many of the city's more affluent residents, both black and white, left the city after the war, moving to neighboring Alameda, Berkeley, Albany and El Cerrito to the north ; to San Leandro, Hayward, Castro Valley and Fremont in Southern Alameda County ; and to the newly developing East Bay suburbs, Orinda, Lafayette, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Concord.
Occupation of the San Rafael region dates back thousands of years to include people of the Desert Archaic Culture who were followed by those of the Fremont culture who inhabited present-day Emery County from about A. D. 500 to about A. D. 1300.
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Walsh was coaching in Fremont when he interviewed for an assistant coaching position with Marv Levy, who had just been hired as the head coach at the University of California, Berkeley.
Although officially classified as a torpedo boat in 1898 by the US Navy, the, a long all steel vessel displacing 165 tons, was described by her commander, LT. John C. Fremont, as "... a compact mass of machinery not meant to keep the sea nor to live in ... as five sevenths of the ship are taken up by machinery and fuel, whilst the remaining two sevenths, fore and aft, are the crew's quarters ; officers forward and the men placed aft.
Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.
He was hired by John C. Fremont as a guide, and led ' the Pathfinder ' through much of California, Oregon and the Great Basin area.
In addition, Sadassa Silvia is a character who claims that Ferris Fremont is actually a communist covert agent recruited by Sadassa's mother when Fremont was still a teenager.
* Fremont, California was formed in 1956 by the combination of the five towns of Centerville, Irvington, Niles, Mission San Jose, and Warm Springs, California.
In the 1856 election, he cast his first presidential vote for the Democratic candidate James Buchanan, saying he was really voting against Fremont, the Republican presidential candidate.
By the end of August 1861, Grant was given charge of the District of Cairo by Maj. Gen John C. Fremont, an outside Lincoln appointment, who viewed Grant as " a man of dogged persistence, and iron will.
Library expansion was calculated in 1945 by Fremont Rider to double in capacity every 16 years, if sufficient space were made available.
The role of Lisa Fremont, a wealthy Manhattan socialite and model, was unlike any of the previous women which she had played.
A deal announced in 2006 to build a new park in Fremont, to be called Cisco Field was halted three years later as a result of opposition from businesses and local residents.
The mission is the namesake of the Mission San José district of Fremont, which was an independent town subsumed into the city when it was incorporated in 1956.
The Mission was used by John C. Fremont as his headquarters during the battles to make California a United States possession ( see Bear Flag Revolt ).
The lot was also adjacent to Fly's, where Doc Holliday rented a room, and also on the route to the Earp's homes two blocks further west on Fremont Street.
Virgil Earp was told by several citizens that the McLaurys and the Clantons had gathered on Fremont Street and were armed.
Morgan Earp was standing on Fremont Street to Wyatt's right, and Doc Holliday anchored the end of their line in Fremont Street, a few feet to Morgan's right.
Frank, now entirely across Fremont street and still walking at a good pace according to Claiborne's testimony, fired twice more before he was shot in the head under his right ear.
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