John Lederer, was a nurse and an explorer of the Appalachian Mountains. Lederer was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1644, and studied medicine at the Hamburg Academic Gymnasium. He later migrated to the United States. Lederer arrived in Virginia in 1669. Believing that the riches of California lay just beyond the mountains west of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley, colonial governor of Virginia, … Wikipedia
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