John M. Morris diary and autobiography, 1885-1906.

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John M. Morris diary and autobiography, 1885-1906.

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Diary, Aug.-Nov. 1885, covers visit in the East, and return to Saint Helena, California. Autobiography, written 1903-1906, describes childhood in Missouri; Indian disturbances; trip to Iowa, 1848; Mormons; farming in Nebraska territory; overland journey to California, 1857; experiences farming in Trinity County; mining; life and farming in Napa Valley; acquaintance with Sam Brannan; trip to Oregon and Idaho, 1863-1866, and to New York via Panama; return with an emigrant wagon train; selling books by subscription in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties; work in saw mills and logging camps; 1906 earthquake as experienced in Napa County.

2 microfilm reels : (958 exposures) : negative (Rich. 399:19-20) and positive.

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Morris, John M., 1835-

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Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889

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Sam Brannan (1819-1889) was born in Maine and moved to Ohio as a teenager. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1844 began printing The Prophet, a Mormon newspaper, in New York. In 1846 Brannan sailed aboard the Brooklyn with about 240 other Mormons to San Francisco, where he was made first president of the California mission and established the California Star as the first newspaper in San Francisco. In 1848 Brannan traveled to Sutter's Mill as a representative of th...