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William Augustus Muhlenberg Van Bokkelen (Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner & commissioner of deeds)

b. 1834 d. 1929-03-03

Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner and commissioner of deeds. North Carolina native. Miner in California in 1859. Miner in Storey County, Nevada Territory, in 1860. Commissioner of deeds for the State of Kentucky in the Nevada Territory in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Nevada, Storey County, Virginia City, p. 375A.

Great Registers, 1866-1898, Alameda County, California State Library, Sacramento, Ca., p.147.

"Van Bokkelen Rites Slated for Tomorrow," Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), Mar. 4, 1929, p. 35.

KYR-0001-031-0258.

Citation

Bokkelen, William Augustus Muhlenberg Van. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204784 (November 12, 2026).

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