Brigham Young was an American religious leader and politician. He was the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. During his time as church president,Young led his followers,the Mormon pioneers,west from Nauvoo,Illinois,to the Salt Lake Valley. He founded Salt Lake City and served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young also worked to establish the learning institutions that would later become the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. A polygamist,Young had at least 56 wives and 57 children. He formalized the prohibition of black men attaining priesthood,and led the church in the Utah War against the United States.
Columbia County is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census,the population was 156,010. The legal county seat is Appling,but the de facto seat of county government is Evans.
Grovetown is a city in Columbia County,Georgia,United States. It is part of the Augusta metropolitan area and the Central Savannah River Area. The 2019 population estimate was 15,152. The mayor is Gary Jones.
Brigham City is a city in Box Elder County,Utah,United States. The population was 19,650 at the 2020 census,up from the 2010 figure of 17,899. It is the county seat of Box Elder County. It lies on the western slope of the Wellsville Mountains,a branch of the Wasatch Range at the western terminus of Box Elder Canyon. It is near the former headquarters of ATK Thiokol,now Northrop Grumman,the company that created the solid rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle.
The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of attacks during the Utah War that resulted in the mass murder of at least 120 members of the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train. The massacre occurred in the southern Utah Territory at Mountain Meadows,and was perpetrated by settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints involved with the Utah Territorial Militia who recruited and were aided by some Southern Paiute Native Americans. The wagon train,made up mostly of families from Arkansas,was bound for California,traveling on the Old Spanish Trail that passed through the Territory.
Augusta is a city on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia. The city lies directly across the Savannah River from North Augusta,South Carolina at the head of its navigable portion. Georgia's third most populous city,Augusta is located in the Fall Line section of the state.
Augusta Regional Airport is a city-owned public airport six miles (11 km) south of Augusta,in Richmond County,Georgia,United States.
John Doyle Lee was an American pioneer,and prominent early member of the Latter Day Saint Movement in Utah. Lee was later excommunicated from the Church and convicted of mass murder for his complicity in the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. He was sentenced to death and,in 1877,was executed by firing squad at the site of the massacre.
James Creel Marshall is an American attorney who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2011. Marshall,a Democrat from Georgia,represented a district based in Macon that also included much of rural Central Georgia. His district was numbered the 3rd district from 2003 to 2007 and the 8th district from 2007 to 2011.
Charles Whitlow Norwood Jr. was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until his death in 2007. At the time of his death,Norwood was the representative of the 10th District of Georgia.
Jonathan Norcross was elected in 1850 as the fourth Mayor of Atlanta,Georgia,serving the customary term at the time of one year. Dubbed the "Father of Atlanta" and "hard fighter of everything" by publisher Henry W. Grady,he followed three mayors elected from the Free and Rowdy Party.
Abraham Owen Smoot was an American pioneer,businessman,religious leader,and politician. He spent his early life in the Southern United States and was one of seven children. After being baptized a member of the Church of Christ,predecessor to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,Smoot served as a missionary in Kentucky,Tennessee,South Carolina,and England. He received no formal education,but learned to read as a child and later attended the School of the Prophets in Kirtland,Ohio. Like other early members of the LDS Church,Smoot practiced plural marriage,eventually marrying six women and having 24 children. After migrating west to Utah Territory,he was elected as the second mayor of Salt Lake City and maintained this position from 1857 to 1866. He was then assigned by Brigham Young to move to Provo,where he served as stake president and mayor from 1868 to 1881. He assisted financially in the construction of the Provo Tabernacle—today the Provo City Center Temple—as well as that of the Utah Southern Railroad. Smoot was the first president of the board of trustees of Brigham Young Academy (BYA)—which later developed into Brigham Young University (BYU). He was an early financial supporter of the institution and was nicknamed the "foster father" of the academy. His goal was to make education available to young Latter-day Saints. Today,the Smoot Administration Building at BYU is named after him.
Alfred Cumming was an American politician who served as the governor of the Utah Territory from April 12,1858,to May 17,1861. Cumming succeeded Brigham Young as governor following the Utah War.
Media outlets in the Augusta,Georgia market include eight television stations,24 FM radio stations,nine AM radio stations,one Internet radio station and numerous print media.
The following is a timeline of the history of Savannah,Georgia,United States.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Atlanta,Georgia,United States.
Brigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877. He founded Salt Lake City and he served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young also led the foundings of the precursors to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Augusta,Georgia,USA.
The Augusta-Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) Vietnam War Veterans Memorial is a granite and bronze monument placed in Augusta,Georgia,March 29,2019,to honor the CSRA's 169 Vietnam War dead,three Ex-Prisoners of War (Vietnam),and one former Missing in Action (MIA) as well as the region's 15,000 surviving Vietnam War Veterans. The memorial is located in the "Olde Town" section of Augusta,Georgia,on the Broad Street median between Third and Fourth Streets. The monument was designed,purchased,and placed by the Augusta Chapter of the Military Order of the World Wars (MOWW) and the chapter's 17 community partners who made up the Augusta-CSRA Vietnam War Memorial Initiative (VWMI) Steering Committee.
George D. Shea was a career officer in the United States Army. A veteran of World War I,World War II,and the Korean War,Shea attained the rank of major general,and was a recipient of the Army Distinguished Service Medal,two awards of the Silver Star,two awards of the Legion of Merit,and two awards of the Bronze Star Medal,as well as several foreign awards.
