The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah.
The territory was organized by an Organic Act of Congress in 1850, on the same day that the State of California was admitted to the Union and the New Mexico Territory was added for the southern portion of the new Mexican land. The creation of the territory was part of the Compromise of 1850 that sought to preserve the balance of power between slave and free states.
In contrast, the Nevada Territory, although more sparsely populated, was admitted to the Union in 1864, only three years after its formation, largely as a consequence of the Union's desire to consolidate its hold on the silver mines in the territory.
Stephen Friel Nuckolls served in the Nebraska Territorial Legislature in 1859. S.F. When the Civil War broke out he was in a dispute with the Federal Government for not upholding the
"Bloodhound Laws" and giving him his escaped slaves back. His attempt to retrieve them caused a riot in Chicago and they were going to kill Nuckolls for trying to take the escaped slaves (teenage negro girls) he had tracked there. The Nuckolls case was every bit as big as the Dred Scott case but went away with the outbreak of the Civil War. It was in all of the newspapers and the turmoil had reached the white house. President James Buchanan was taking the heat for trying to support Nuckolls to the extent that they made excuses for his pro-slavery opinions that reached the press. Nuckolls moved to the Territory of Colorado in 1860 where he continued to manipulate the Government in favor of the K.G.C./O.A.K. during the formation of the local government with his counterparts A.A. Bradford and Hiram Pitt Benet. There he and his
"Brothers of Lasting Faith" engaged in
banking and mining. In 1864 he moved to New York City and took with him gathered funds from Southern Rights Activist in Colorado to
support the Southern Cause(Kill Lincoln?). It was at that time he engaged in the K.G.C.'s attempt to defraud the Mexican Government and use the U.S. Government as their strong arm to get the Mexicans to pay for the
La Abra Silver Mining Comany a case that would carry on into the 1890's. He moved to the Territory of Dakota in 1867 and settled in Cheyenne. In Cheyeyenne he engaged in mercantile pursuits and other secret operations he was involved in from afar. Upon the organization of the Territory of Wyoming he was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress and served from December 6, 1869, to March 3, 1871. Once again the K.G.C. manipulated the U.S. Government in the formation of Laws and regulations and anything else that paved the way for the desired K.G.C. / O.A.K. effect. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress. Nuckolls served as a member of the second legislative council of Wyoming in 1871 and served as presiding officer. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1872 and 1876. He moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in July 1872 and engaged in milling. In Salt Lake City he died on February 14, 1879. He was interred in Mount Olivet Cemetery in an unmarked grave with no monument.
Why would a man of this caliber be buried in an unmarked grave? So all of you Utah treasure hunters out there be on the look out for any of his old mines!
L.C. Baker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Friel_Nuckolls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Pitt_Bennet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Alexander_Bradford
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