Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President of 26 states.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
April 20, 1861 ~ Saturday
20 I spent the forenoon in the Endowment House, in the Evening I drove up to
a stone carrall on the mountain abo[v]e the Hot spring & left a waggon
Box for Moroni to sleep in & herd his sheep for a time on the mount[ai]n
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Woodruff, Moroni Bosnell
abt. 1843-aft. 1861
31 mentions
Family, Native American
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News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
Wilford's father Aphek Woodruff dies.
