| LC control no. | nr 91003177 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889 |
| Variant(s) | Brannan, Samuel, 1819-1889 |
| Located | Kirtland (Ohio) Nauvoo (Ill.) San Francisco (Calif.) San Diego (Calif.) Ensenada (Baja California, Mexico) |
| Birth date | 1819 |
| Death date | 1889-05-14 |
| Place of birth | Saco (Me.) |
| Place of death | Escondido (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| Profession or occupation | Businesspeople Journalists Ranchers Mason |
| Found in | The 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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