William Leidesdorff
William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. (1810 – May 18, 1848) was one of the earliest African Americans in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco. A highly successful, enterprising businessman, he was a West Indian immigrant of African Cuban, possibly Carib, Danish/Swedish and Jewish ancestry. Leidesdorff became a United States citizen in New Orleans in 1834. He migrated to Alta California in 1841, then under Mexican rule, settling in Yerba Buena (now San Francisco), a village of about 30 Mexican and European families.
FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE BORN March 26, 1810 - May 18, 1848 (38)
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