Notes for Aurora Shumway

Notes for Aurora Shumway

At age 17, he went to eastern Iowa, then the border of civilization. A few years later he went to Santa Fe, NM with a company of
cavalry and was connected with the baggage train accompanying the command of Col. John C. Fremont, with Kit Carson as guide,
both of whom he became well acquainted. He was a veteran of the Mexican War, drawing a pension from the govt.; He was in
California when the first discovery of gold produced such an excitement throughout the country and he did a prosperous
merchandizing business in mining camps; In 1858 he went to Oregon, settling the Dalles and served two terms as Wasco Co.
sheriff.He embraked on a stock raising business with a partner and tried several locations, before going to Camas and there
they added a butchering business to other interests. In this vicinity he served as County Commissioner and Judge of the
Probate Court. He held high office in the Oregon State Grange and was eminently a man of affairs. The throng of citizens
who attended his funeral testified to the esteem this sturdy pioneer was held.- A.A. Shumway

Shumway (Aurora), 1847, Co. C, N. Y. Vol. (v. 469)
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. California Pioneers, 1542-1848 [database online]. Orem, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc., 1997. Original data: Bancroft, Hubert Howe. California Pioneer Register and Index 1542-1848, Including Inhabitants of California, 1769-1800 and List of Pioneers, extracted from Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of California. San Francisco, CA: History Company, 1884-1890.
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MORMON BATTALION
ROSTER of COMPANY C
PRIVATES
Shumway, Aurora

"Original Circular to the Mormons"
(Presented by Brigham Young and Captain James Allen
on July 1, 1846 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa)

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"I have come among you, instructed by Col. S.F. Kearney of the U.S. Army, now commanding the Army of the West, to visit
the Mormon camp, and to accept the service for twelve months of four or five companies of Mormon men who may be willing
to serve their country for that period in our present war with Mexico; this force to unite with the Army of the West at Santa Fe,
and be marched thence to California, where they will be discharged.
"They will receive pay rations, and other allowances, such as other volunteers or regular soldiers receive, from the day they
shall be mustered into the service, and will be entitled to all comforts and benefits of regular soldiers of the army, and when
discharged as contemplated, at California, they will be given gratis their arms and accoutrements for which they will be fully
equipped at Fort Leavenworth. This is offered to the Mormon people now. This is an opportunity of sending a portion of their
young and intelligent men to the ultimate destination of their whole people, and entirely at the expense of the United States,
and this advanced party can thus pave the way and look out for the land for their brethren to come after them.

"Those of the Mormons who are desirous of serving their country, on the conditions here enumerated, are requested to meet
me without delay at their principal camp at Council Bluffs, whither I am going to consult with their principal men, and to
receive and organize the force contemplated to be raised.

"I will receive all healthy, able-bodied men from eighteen to forty-five years of age."

J. Allen, Captain 1st Dragoons

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