Zachary Taylor inaugurated as twelfth President of 30 United States.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 27, 1849 ~ Saturday
27th I recieved the New York Herald weekly of 27th it is full
of the Calafornia gold fever. it seems as though All the world
was running stark mad to go to the gold mines of Calafornia
on the Sacramento. Hundreds of ships And tens of thousands
of men are preparing to go there. Elder Allexander Badlam
has purchased goods & necessaries And is now preparing to go
there Also on Board of the Corsiar
via Panama As his brother in Law Samuel Brannan is out
there He thinks He will do well
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Badlam, Alexander, b. 1808
28 Nov 1808 - 1 Dec 1894
102 mentions
Zion's Camp
Brannan, Samuel
2 Mar 1819 - 5 May 1889
65 mentions
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Constitutional convention held to form the State of Deseret. (to encompass present day Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and parts of California, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, and Idaho.
Wilford baptizes father-in-law Ezra Carter.