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Member of General Stephen W. Kearny's company, June 22, 1847 News of the Donner Party's fate was spread eastward by Samuel Brannan, a journalist and elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who ran into the salvage party as they came down from the pass with Keseberg. Accounts of the ordeal first reached New York City in July 1847. Reporting on the event across the U.S. was ...
James Reed was the only adult survivor of the Donner Party to publish an extensive account, beginning with J. Merryman’s newspaper article based on Reed’s notes in the December 9, 1847 Illinois Journal, and Reed’s own article The Snow-Bound, Starved Emigrants of 1846 published in the Pacific Rural Press in 1871. Reed died in 1874.
May 10, 2024 · Breen’s account of the winter of 1846–47 would provide the only contemporary written record of the Donner party’s ordeal. On December 15 Baylis Williams, an employee of the Reed family, died of malnutrition at the lake camp; his was the first recorded death in the camps, although many others would soon follow.
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Aug 18, 1996 · James Reed III is a former mayor of San Anselmo. The post now is held by Peter Breen, great-great grandson of Donner Party member Patrick Breen. The Breen and Graves families held reunions in conjunction with the event. Family historians praised their ancestors during programs, calling them heroes for their courage.
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About James F. Breen, Donner Party. Survived, age four. James graduated from Santa Clara College and became an attorney. He established his practice in San Juan Bautista about 1863 and was a prominent local citizen. He served as district attorney, assemblyman, and county judge for Monterey County; when San Benito County split off from Monterey ...
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Oct 29, 2020 · But in 1878, a historian and newspaper editor in Truckee named Charles McGlashan had a chance encounter with a Donner Party survivor. This was James Breen — who, like Eliza Donner, had only been a tiny child when his family lived through the disaster.
Dec 24, 2021 · Snow covers the Sierra Nevada mountain range at Donner Pass, the pass named for the ill-fated Donner Party that was stranded over the winter of 1846-1847 en route to the Sacramento Valley. James L ...
