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Day in the Life

Jan 17, 1859

Journal Entry

January 17, 1859 ~ Monday

17th I called upon Governor Cummings & secretary Hartnett
in the morning to get a list of his expendatures to put in the appro-
priateion Bill I attended the Legislature I called at the secretaris
office to get the Items of the expenditures to make out the appropriation
Bill I spent the evening at Brother Horns it being his birth day He
made a feast for his friends. Elder John Taylor read the New York
Herrald of Dec 17th 1858 which is full of war the British Government
[FIGURE] has boarded our steamers & Blockaded the mexican
ports stoped the American transit routt & war with England
& France is inevitable

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69 mentions
15 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1837 mentions
Apostle
Horne, Joseph
17 Jan 1812 - 27 Apr 1897
48 mentions

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December 1858
Wilford serves ninth term as member of Territorial Legislature.

Jan 17, 1859