Mormon Battalion - Notable Members of The Battalion

Notable Members of The Battalion

  • Jefferson Hunt, father of San Bernardino County, Brigadier-General of California Militia
  • William Prows, first man to wash gold on the Comstock Lode
  • William S. S. Willes
  • James C. Sly
  • George Stoneman, Governor of California 1883
  • Stephen Clark Foster (1815–1898), first American mayor of Los Angeles, California

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