Sam Brannan, 1928.

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Sam Brannan, 1928.

Photocophy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten master's thesis. The item is a "thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History in the Graduate Division of the University of California." The thesis is a biography of Sam Brannan, Mormon and California businessman.

1 v. (160 p.)

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Dunlap, Forence McClure.

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Graduate student in history at the University of California. From the description of Sam Brannan, 1928. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 51600217 ...

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...