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unusual facts about William Alexander Leidesdorff



Joseph Libbey Folsom

Folsom's controversial purchase of Rancho Rio de los Americanos from the heirs of a San Francisco merchant William Alexander Leidesdorff remained tied up in litigation for many years, eventually reaching the Supreme Court of California after Folsom's death.


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Rancho Rio de los Americanos

William Alexander Leidesdorff, U.S. Vice Consul at the Port of San Francisco, hired a farm manager and financed construction of four adobe dwellings on the site at today's River Bend Park, near Bradshaw Road and Folsom Blvd, in the city of Rancho Cordova.