Wilford Heath Hudson -- Lest We Forget.

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Wilford Heath Hudson -- Lest We Forget.

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This spiral-bound manuscript is a 30-page family biography of Wilford Heath Hudson that also recounts some Mormon history. It includes a family tree and a loose photocopy of an 1850 advertisement of goods for sale on Mormon Island.

1 piece 30 pages.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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United States. Army. Mormon Battalion

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Howard, Helen G.

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Wilford Heath Hudson was born on September 19, 1818, in Corydove, Indiana. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Illinois in the early 1840s and joined the Mormon Battalion (Private 47, Company A) in 1846, marching with them to California. After his discharge in California in 1847, he worked for a time near Sutter's Fort, and was among the first to prospect for gold in the area. He had some success in prospecting near the fort and on Mormon Island, but returned ...

Hudson, Wilford Heath, 1818-1905.

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