Zachary Taylor inaugurated as twelfth President of 30 United States.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
February 01, 1849 ~ Thursday
Feb 1st I arose early in the morning Accompanied Elder
Badlam to the ship Corsiar whare He takes passage to
Panama And goes on Coto the Bay of San Francisco to visit his
Brother in Law Samuel Brannan to try to get some gold
to meet his liabilaities & to remove his family to the gathering
place of the Saints. He has Acted in concert with the
Presidency of the Church for years past And has stret-
ched out his hand so liberally to try to Assist in rolling
on the general cause of Zion untill He became involved
several Hundred dollars in dept. And men of the world
now stept fourth And offered to Advance money to pay
his depts And support his family if he would accompa-
ny some of their sons young who ware going to the
Bay of San Francisco to try to get gold at the mines
this being the ownly opening which He could see to
pay his depts He considerd it an omin that the hand
of the Lord was in therefore he Accpepted it this is the
cause of his going It snowed hard to day And the
ship dind not go out there were 104 passengers on
board they sent most of their provisions around
Cape Horn on board of the Pharsailia Br Badlam came
home And sepnt the night He And Br Wm Page spent the night
at my house untill 10 oclok & went home. I recieved two letters
one from Wm Low one from A. W. Babbitt I wrote two
letter one to Wm Low one to Eldridge
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Badlam, Alexander, b. 1808
28 Nov 1808 - 1 Dec 1894
102 mentions
Zion's Camp
Babbitt, Almon Whiting
1812-1856
111 mentions
Brannan, Samuel
2 Mar 1819 - 5 May 1889
65 mentions
Eldridge, Thomas F. Eldredge
23 Mar 1813 - 29 Aug 1891
6 mentions
Lowe, William
1822-unk.
17 mentions
Page, William
unk.-unk.
18 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.
