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Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889

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Personal name headingBrannan, Sam, 1819-1889
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Variant(s)Brannan, Samuel, 1819-1889
LocatedKirtland, Ohio Nauvoo, Ill. San Francisco, Calif. San Diego, Calif. Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Birth date1819
Death date18890514
Place of birthSaco, Me.
Place of deathEscondido, Calif.
AffiliationChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Profession or occupationSettler
Businessman
Journalist
Rancher
Mason
Mormon
Found inThe Trestle board, June 1926: t.p. (Sam Brannan) p. 10, etc. (commonly referred to as Sam Brannan but also referred to as Samuel Brannan; b. 1819, Maine; d. 5-14-1889, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico; Mormon, Mason)
Wikipedia, website viewed 10 June 2013 (Samuel Brannan; born March 2, 1819, Saco, Maine; Died May 14, 1889, Escondido, California; buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California; American settler, businessman, and journalist; founded the California Star newspaper in San Francisco, California; first publicist of the California gold rush; Joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kirtland, Ohio where he moved with his sister; printed The Prophet, a Latter-day Saint newspaper; moved to Nauvoo, Illinois in 1844; In February 1846 Brannan and 245 other Latter-day Saints from New York set sail aboard the ship Brooklyn for upper California and landed on July 31, 1846 in Yerba Buena, present day San Francisco; after divorce in 1872 he drifted to San Diego, California and set up a small ranch near the Mexican border)
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