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1872 February 21 Letter to H. H. Napier

Title

1872 February 21 Letter to H. H. Napier

Description

Napier provides answers to questions about the pioneers' settlement in 1847 and gives background on President Young's ancestry, including his grandfather's role in the English Army and his own birth in Vermont.

Type

Correspondence

Sender

Brigham Young's Office

Recipient

H. H. Napier

Date

1872 February 21

Location

Osborne, Kansas
Salt Lake City, Utah

Subject

Inquiry
Personal

Salt Lake City, U. T.
Feb. 21. 1872.

H. H. Napier, Esqr.
Osborne City, Kansas.

Dear Sir,

Yours to Prest. Young of the 18. Jan. was detained in the snow bloackade on the U. P. Railroad, and not received here until the 19th. inst., to which I have been instructed to reply.

The pioneers entered the valley of the Great Salt Lake and founded this settlement, July. 24, 1847.

Prest. Young's grandfather was a surgeon in the English Army during the French Revolutionary wars, and his ancestors came to England from Germany.

As these are categorical answers to your questions I presume they are all that you require, but I will merely add that the Prest. was born in Whittingham, Windham Co. Vermont, on the 1st day of June 1801.