Sam Brannan receipted bill : San Francisco : DS, 1848 Sept. 8.

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Sam Brannan receipted bill : San Francisco : DS, 1848 Sept. 8.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26574599

Bill for auction notices and advertising. Witnessed by C.V. Gillespie.

1 leaf ; 25 cm.

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Gillespie, Charles Albert

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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...