Edgar Rickard was a mining engineer and lifelong confidant of U.S. President Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

. He was the son of mining engineer Reuben Rickard

Reuben Rickard

Reuben Rickard was a mining engineer who served as President of the Town Board of Trustees in Berkeley, California from 1891 to 1893, and again for about one month during 1895....

, and the brother of Thomas Rickard

Thomas Rickard

Thomas Rickard was an early resident of Berkeley, California, and served as the last President of the Town Board of Trustees from 1903 to 1909, before the new city charter went into effect, creating the office of Mayor....

, a mining engineer and one-time mayor of Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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. He was born on January 17, 1874 in Pontgibaud

Pontgibaud

Pontgibaud is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.It is located in the Massif Central region of France on the banks of the Sioule River. The area around the town was historically known for silver and lead mining....

, France

France

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. For many years around the turn of the century, he was the editor of a mining journal in London

London

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.

Rickard died in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

on January 21, 1951.