WOW.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. William Bowers Bourn II - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bowers_Bourn_II

   William Bowers Bourn II (31 May 1857 – 5 July 1936) was an American entrepreneur and socialite. Bourn ran and controlled the Empire Mine and the San Francisco Gas Company, he was an investor in Spring Valley Water Company, and he led a merger to what later became Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Bourn II was the builder of many estates in ...

3. Grass Valley, California - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Valley,_California

   Grass Valley is a city in Nevada County, California, United States.As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 12,860.Situated at roughly 2,500 feet (760 m) in elevation in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, this northern Gold Country city is 57 miles (92 km) by car from Sacramento and 88 miles (142 km) west of Reno.

4. Grass Valley (company) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Valley_(company)

   Grass Valley (formerly known as Thomson Grass Valley and Grass Valley Group) is a manufacturer of television production and broadcasting equipment. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, it was formed by the March 2014 merger of the original Grass Valley with Miranda Technologies, which were both acquired by American networking company Belden in 2014 and 2012, respectively.

5. Lotta Crabtree - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotta_Crabtree

   Lotta Crabtree. Charlotte Mignon " Lotta " Crabtree (November 7, 1847 – September 25, 1924), also known mononymously as Lotta, [1] was an American actress, entertainer, comedian, and philanthropist. Crabtree was born in New York City and raised in the gold mining hills of Northern California. There she rose to fame as a child performer.

6. North Star House (Grass Valley, California) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Star_House_(Grass...

   North Star House (alternate: Foote Mansion) is a house located roughly a mile south of Grass Valley, Nevada County, northern California. The building served as the superintendent's house for the North Star Mine. Commissioned by Superintendent Arthur De Wint Foote and his wife, Mary Hallock Foote ("Molly"), an author and illustrator, it was ...

7. Larry King (tennis) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King_(tennis)

   King was born in Dayton, Ohio, and raised in Eagle Rock, California. He met Billie Jean Moffitt at California State University, Los Angeles in 1963, when he played on one of the school’s best men's tennis teams, coached by Scotty Deeds. He married Billie Jean on September 17, 1965 in Long Beach, California.