Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory Point, Utah, effectively ending the Church's isolation in Utah.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
May 27, 1869 ~ Thursday
27. May
I had an unplesant day I spent most of the day
with with Brother James Brown with G. Q. Cannon Drs And-
erson Bernhisel, & Heber John Richards. Brother Brown was
shot some 5 years ago in the night in the canyon By a young
Man who thought He was a grizerly Bear the Ball Broke his
thigh bone & he has been years in misery & to day the surgeons
cut open his thigh & examined the Bone & found it so diseased
they amputated his leg near the Body Brother Cannon & myself
held his leg while it was cut off several of his cousins were
present & Bishop Davis Dr Anderson cut his leg off
Heber John Richards took up the arters Br Brown was a strong Man
it was Hard to put him under the Influence of cloriform
& hard to come out of it Presid[en]t Young came a short time
But his leg was taken off when he got there. It has stoped
raining & cleared up to day I wrote a letter to Wilford
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Cannon, George Quayle
11 Jan 1827 - 12 Apr 1901
2257 mentions
Apostle
Richards, Heber John
11 Oct 1840 - 12 May 1919
27 mentions
Brown, James Stephens
4 Jul 1828 - 29 Mar 1902
15 mentions
Bernhisel, John Milton
23 Jun 1799 - 28 Sep 1881
321 mentions
Davis, Nathan
1814-1894
7 mentions
Anderson, Washington Franklin
6 Jan 1823 - 21 Apr 1903
21 mentions
Woodruff, Wilford (Jr.)
22 Mar 1840 - 9 May 1921
719 mentions
Family
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