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ksdkjlf t1_j9520rs wrote

Reply to comment by DickweedMcGee in TIL as an alternative to Brigham Young’s wagon train trip to Salt Lake, Sam Brannan chartered a ship Brooklyn to take 238 passengers from New York, around the Cape Horn to Hawaii and then what is now San Francisco. Brannon then walked overland through Utah and met Young in what is now Wyoming. by triviafrenzy

This appears to be one of them. Can't figure out the second. While that guy appears to've returned purely for financial reasons, the first Mormon missionaries to Hawaii arrived from SF during the Gold Rush years, so the timeline works for one of them to've returned as a missionary. Mormonism is still pretty big in Hawaii and throughout the Pacific islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints_in_Hawaii

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