Biographical sketch of Wilford Heath Hudson.

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Biographical sketch of Wilford Heath Hudson.

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Brief biographical sketch of Wilford Heath Hudson (1818-1905), an Indiana convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Provides a brief chronicle of Hudson's life from his baptism at age 24 by David Evans in Adams County, Illinois, to his participation in the Mormon Battalion and his tenure as mayor of Grantsville, Utah. Also includes references to Hudson's involvement in the founding of a Mormon settlement at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa; his interactions with Joseph Smith; his following of Joseph Smith's son instead of Brigham Young; and his participation in building a mill near the American Fork River, where Hudson was supposedly the first to identify the metal discovered by Peter Wimmer as gold, thereby having "much to do with the start of the California Gold Rush."

1 photocopy of typewritten document, 3 pages.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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