Charles Augustus Wetmore
American
Lineage
- Father Jesse Lameneaux Wetmore
Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
1868/06/00 | Charles A Wetmore is the valedictorian of the last class of the College of California of Oakland before it will be chartered as the University of California at Berkeley. | Education | Berkeley | California | |||
1878/07/00 | For many years Chas Wetmore owns the Island of Coronado and much property in what will become the center of San Diego. | Developer | Coronado | California | |||
1880/00/00 | Charles Wetmore establishes the Cresta Blanca Winery in a natural amphitheater below the cliff near Livermore with cuttings from Chateau d'Yquem and other Bordeaux estates. | Work | Wente Vineyards, Livermore | Livermore, CA | |||
1888/01/00 | David Gardiner and John R Bleecker sell their property opposite the Santa Fe Depot to Charles A Wetmore for over $40,000 (over $1 million in 2016 dollars). | Owner | Santa Fe Depot | San Diego, CA | |||
1889/07/00 | Two wines from the Cresta Blanca Winery near Livermore, California, receive gold medals at the Exposition Universelle of 1889. Bringing promise to California wine growers that they can grow wines comparable to the finest in the world. | Vintner | Wente Vineyards, Livermore | Livermore, CA | 1889 Exposition Universelle |
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