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Alexander Badlam Sr.

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Alexander Badlam Sr.

Birth
Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
1 Dec 1894 (aged 85)
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA
Burial
Saint Helena, Napa County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 22, Lot 19 B
Memorial ID
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Coachmaker, realtor, inventor, author. Born at Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. Son of Ezra Badlam & Mary Lovis. Married ca. 1833, near Saco, York Co., Maine. Mary Ann Brannan, sister of Samuel Brannan California's first millionaire. Father-in-law of Joseph Webb Winans. Was one of the pioneer settlers of Lake Co.,OH and CA. Participated in Camp of Israel expedition to Missouri, 1834. Appointed to the First Quorum of Seventy, 28 February 1835. Ordained an elder and a seventy, 1 Mar. 1835. Lived at Daviess Co. and Caldwell Co., Missouri. Member Missouri high council, Aug. 1835. Fled Missouri to Illinois, 1839. Resided in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, 1842. Presided over Boston branch of the Church, 1846-1848. Migrated to Utah, 1850. Mission to California, 1852; studying Chinese in Sacramento, 1853-1855. President of Sixth Quorum of Seventy. By 1872 he had left the Mormon Church. Moved to Sacramento, by 1860. Moved to Hot Springs Township (area of present-day Calistoga and St. Helena), Napa Co., California, by 1870. Moved to San Francisco, by 1880. Died at San Francisco.

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Photo Winans Vault Calistoga, Napa Co., CA Winans Vault was built on the property of Samuel Brannan in 1870 from stone brought from China by Joseph Webb Winans. In 1913 the City of Calistoga passed an ordinance prohibiting housing of non-cremated remains above ground. Records of the St Helena Cemetery Association indicate that in June, 1913, and Sept of 1919, the remains of ten individuals were removed from the Vault and re-interred in the St Helena Cemetery.
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Coachmaker, realtor, inventor, author. Born at Dorchester, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. Son of Ezra Badlam & Mary Lovis. Married ca. 1833, near Saco, York Co., Maine. Mary Ann Brannan, sister of Samuel Brannan California's first millionaire. Father-in-law of Joseph Webb Winans. Was one of the pioneer settlers of Lake Co.,OH and CA. Participated in Camp of Israel expedition to Missouri, 1834. Appointed to the First Quorum of Seventy, 28 February 1835. Ordained an elder and a seventy, 1 Mar. 1835. Lived at Daviess Co. and Caldwell Co., Missouri. Member Missouri high council, Aug. 1835. Fled Missouri to Illinois, 1839. Resided in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, 1842. Presided over Boston branch of the Church, 1846-1848. Migrated to Utah, 1850. Mission to California, 1852; studying Chinese in Sacramento, 1853-1855. President of Sixth Quorum of Seventy. By 1872 he had left the Mormon Church. Moved to Sacramento, by 1860. Moved to Hot Springs Township (area of present-day Calistoga and St. Helena), Napa Co., California, by 1870. Moved to San Francisco, by 1880. Died at San Francisco.

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Photo Winans Vault Calistoga, Napa Co., CA Winans Vault was built on the property of Samuel Brannan in 1870 from stone brought from China by Joseph Webb Winans. In 1913 the City of Calistoga passed an ordinance prohibiting housing of non-cremated remains above ground. Records of the St Helena Cemetery Association indicate that in June, 1913, and Sept of 1919, the remains of ten individuals were removed from the Vault and re-interred in the St Helena Cemetery.
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