Samuel Brannan letter to Castro : New York : ALS, 1879 Sept. 6.

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Samuel Brannan letter to Castro : New York : ALS, 1879 Sept. 6.

Concerning bonds for a proposed colony in Sonora. With transcript.

Originals : [2] p. ; 21 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 85:8)

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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...