Blogs from Genoa, Nevada, United States, North America

JUDGE JOHN CRADLEBAUGH John was from Circleville, Ohio. He got loaded up with book learning and became a lawdog, and eventually a judge. In 1858 President Buchanan appointed him to the Federal Bench in the Territory of Utah. The Mormons were in an uproar over what they mistook as their sovereignty when federal troops were sent to Utah to enforce federal law. The Mormon War, as it came to be known, was finally settled diplomatically but no federal presence was allowed in Salt Lake City. The troops, when they arrived in the spring of 1858, were posted to Camp Floyd which was 40 miles southwest of town on the emigrant trail. When Cradlebaugh arrived he was assigned a bench in Provo. The only casualties of the Mormon War were a hapless train of emigrants bound for ... read more