Day in the Life

Dec 1, 1849

Journal Entry

December 01, 1849 ~ Saturday

Dec 1st I took cars rode to Philedelphia spent the night at
J Gibsons I recieved 3 letters 2 from Mrs Woodruff & one
from Dr Bernhisel containing a Ticket to visit Giralrd College
I called upon Col Kane & saw A sleigh robe presented to him by
Dr Bernhisel as A present from President Young it contained
7 wolf skins & 10 Fox skins got up with great taste & splendor
it was worth $40. I wrote A letter to Mrs Woodruff
A hand pointing to the right A folded letter/box

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Gibson, Jacob
1 Jan 1814 - 1 May 1882
Bernhisel, John Milton
23 Jun 1799 - 28 Sep 1881
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1582 mentions
Family
Kane, Thomas Leiper
27 Jan 1822 - 26 Dec 1883

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Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
I took cars to Philedelphia where I arrived on the same day and called upon Col Kane and saw a sleigh robe presented to him by Dr Bernhisel as a present from President Young. It contained 7 wolves skins ^10 fox skins got up with great taste^

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Church membership 51,839; population of Utah Territory 11,380; population of United States 23,192,000.

Dec 1, 1849