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    Samuel S. Brannan (March 2, 1819 – May 5, 1889) was an American settler, businessman, journalist, and prominent Mormon who founded the California Star...
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  • Mexican–American War Mike Brannan (1955–2013), American golfer Samuel Brannan (1819–1889), American businessman and journalist Samuel S. Brannan (1835–1880), American...
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    be built. When official word of the new gathering place was issued, Samuel Brannan informed the disappointed Brooklyn settlers that their communal endeavors...
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  • (Venezuela), Ira Allen (Canada), William A. Chanler (Cuba and Venezuela), Samuel Brannan (Kingdom of Hawaii / Hawaii), Joseph C. Morehead and Henry Alexander...
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  • Samuel Stephen Brannan (February 5, 1835 – April 5, 1880) was an American newspaper editor, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He was the 13th...
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    in March 1848 by San Francisco newspaper publisher and merchant Samuel Brannan. Brannan strode through the streets of San Francisco, holding aloft a vial...
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    it to a hotel in 1865 and renamed it the Brannan House, in honor to the first owner of the land, Samuel Brannan (1819–1889). The City of Sacramento had...
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    1862. Keseberg then opened a distillery in Calistoga for his friend Samuel Brannan, before returning to Sacramento. Keseberg and his wife would have eight...
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    first newspaper published in the city, Samuel Brannan's California Star, which debuted on January 9, 1847. Brannan, who had earlier assisted in publishing...
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    Roman Catholic Church. A Mormon immigrant company, under direction of Samuel Brannan, departed on the ship Brooklyn from New York on February 4, 1846 en...
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    were confirmed by San Francisco newspaper publisher and merchant Samuel Brannan. Brannan hurriedly set up a store to sell gold prospecting supplies, and...
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    arriving in the 1840s, with several taking up lands in the Calistoga area. Samuel Brannan was the leader of a Mormon settlement expedition on the ship Brooklyn...
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    1847 News of the Donner Party's fate was spread eastward by journalist Samuel Brannan, who ran into the salvage party as they came down from the pass with...
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    to be a bane. By December 1848, John Sutter Jr., in association with Samuel Brannan, began laying out the City of Sacramento, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of...
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    winter weather and the lack of adequate supplies. In November 1845, Samuel Brannan, newspaperman and small-scale publisher of the Mormon paper The Prophet...
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    hoping to profit from a rebellion. One of the first was a group led by Samuel Brannan, who did not find the popular support for an uprising that they expected...
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  • pioneers arrive, among them Samuel Brannan 1847 Samuel Brannan's California Star begins publishing in Yerba Buena (Sam Brannan pictured) The Californian...
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  • Alex Oriet David Phelan Nathan Evans – associated performer, vocals Samuel Brannan Tom Hollings William Graydon Mike Hillier – mastering engineer, studio...
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    Howard, Samuel Brannan, Thomas O. Larkin, and Captain Folsom acknowledged their close personal friendship with Green. In 1851, Howard, Brannan, and Green...
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  • The history of Sacramento, California, began with its founding by Samuel Brannan and John Augustus Sutter, Jr. in 1848 around an embarcadero that his father...
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    the gold discovery quiet failed when merchant and newspaper publisher Samuel Brannan returned from Sutter's Mill to San Francisco with gold he had acquired...
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  • Alabama. Member of Rising Virtue Lodge No. 4 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Samuel Brannan (1819–1889), American settler, businessman, journalist, and prominent...
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    the Napa Valley Rail Road Company which was founded and developed by Samuel Brannan December 23, 1869 renamed the California Pacific Railroad Company. January...
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    Golden Gate below the Cliff House. Anecdotal stories claim that in 1858 Samuel Brannan paid $1,500 for lumber salvaged from a ship that foundered on the rocky...
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    Haight, who was a great-niece of the early California Mormon leader Sam Brannan. Young started into films by writing comedy routines for Franklyn Farnum...
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    site uses. Henry A. Barrows, actor Liberty Billings, Florida senator Samuel Brannan, businessman and pioneer Amos Chase, Saco pioneer Justin Chenette, Maine...
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    rock band Weezer – alternative rock band X – alternative/punk band Samuel Brannan – newspaper publisher Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo – Spanish explorer César...
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    U.S. politician, soldier founder of the city of Chico, California Samuel Brannan 1819–1889 Saco, Massachusetts (now Maine), U.S. politician, businessman...
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    Col. Wilson was one of several to incorporate the Yuba Railroad, with Samuel Brannan as President. A year later, in December 1863, Yuba Railroad was completely...
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  • Heights named for Pilgrim Fathers; the other is Brewster Street. Brannan Street Samuel Brannan Brenham Place Charles James Brenham Brewster Street William...
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