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Day in the Life

Jan 25, 1870

Journal Entry

January 25, 1870 ~ Tuesday

25 We had a hard storm this morning I went to the Legislative
Council Mr Cowles called upon me & spent an hour at my
desk I had an interesting time iwith him in conversing upon
[FIGURE] the affairs of Farmington He said Samuel dDeming was
dying with a cancer in the face I used to work for
him when I was a Boy Nearly all of the families of the
Cowles & dDemings were dead & their property gave into other Hands
I wrote a Letter to Samuel Demings of Farmington

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Cowles, John Egbert
15 Aug 1824 - 5 Jun 1905
1 mention
11 mentions

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Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut

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1870
Church membership 90,130; population of Utah Territory 86,336; population of 38 United States 39,820,000.
February 1870
Utah women given the right to vote; Liberal (non-Mormon) Party formed opposing People's (Mormon) Party.

Jan 25, 1870