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Day in the Life

Dec 19, 1856

Journal Entry

December 19, 1856 ~ Friday

19th I spent the fore part of the day in the Legislature & the afternoon
in the office I conversed with the president upon chartering a
company for cotton raising He did not wish to have me get
up a Bill upon that subject. S. M. Blair call in spent the time in
conversing upon a variety of subjects the Texan war &cc

People

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
Blair, Seth Millington
13 Mar 1819 - 17 Mar 1875
68 mentions

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Historian's Office, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

Events

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December 30, 1856
Members of Territorial Legislature rebaptized (Wilford for the fifth time).
1857
Church membership is 55,236.

Dec 19, 1856