This Year in History
1875


This Year in History - 1875

- Romualdo Pacheco, California’s Lt. Governor, assumes the office of the governor after Governor Newton Booth resigns. Pacheco is the state’s first California-born governor.
- California’s largest bank, San Francisco’s Bank of California, collapses due to volatile trading of Nevada mining stocks. The day after the bank’s failure, its president is found floating in San Francisco Bay.
- In the September elections, Democrats win three of four seats in Congress.
- The Southern Pacific Railroad expands its rail monopoly to Orange County by extending its tracks south from Los Angeles to Anaheim. Two years later, the line would be extended to Santa Ana.
photo courtesy of
The Governors Gallery, CA State Library