What was the average cost of the trip to
the Salt Lake Valley from Europe Via sail, rail, and trail in 1856 (This would
be the cost in 1856 dollars)?
A)
$130
B)
$10
C)
$86
D)
$47
Yesterday’s
answer
(D)
During the 1st World War
February
9, 1919: The U.S. Congress awards Private Thomas C. Neibur the Medal of Honor,
making him the first Latter-day Saint and the first private in the U.S. Army to
receive the award.
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel et al., On This Day In The Church (Salt
Lake City: Eagle Gate, 2000), 30.
A
little more information to the story:
In May of 1898, Thomas C. Neibaur, later a
World War I army private awarded the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor for
defending fellow soldiers from attack and taking eleven enemy soldiers as
prisoners, all after being wounded in battle, is born in Sharon Idaho.
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel et al., On This Day In The Church (Salt
Lake City: Eagle Gate, 2000), 98.
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