Background
John Williams Gunnison was born at Goshen, New Hampshire, United States on November 11, 1812, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Williams) Gunnison.
His father was a farmer, of colonial stock.
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John Williams Gunnison
Edit ProfileEducation
John had his early education in Hopkinton Academy, New Hampshire. On July 1, 1833, he entered West Point, from which he graduated with high honors four years later, as a second lieutenant of the 2nd Artillery.
Career
John Williams Gunnison served in the Seminole War as an ordnance officer during the winter of 1837-38.
In the spring of 1838 he was detached to aid in the transfer of the Cherokees to the Indian Territory, and on the completion of this service he returned to the Seminole campaign as a second lieutenant of topographical engineers.
From 1840 to 1849 he was engaged in surveys in Georgia and the lake region of the North and Northwest. In the latter year, as a first lieutenant (appointed May 9, 1846) he was assigned to Captain Howard Stansbury’s party directed to explore a central route to the Pacific and to survey the Great Salt Lake region.
The unusual severity of the winter compelled him to remain for much of the time in Salt Lake City, where he made a study of the Mormon religion and people that resulted in the publication in 1852 of a book, The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake.
He returned to Washington in 1850, and from 1851 to the early part of 1853 he was engaged in surveys in the northern lake regions.
On March 3, 1853, he was made a captain and shortly afterward was assigned to the exploration and survey of a westward route by way of the Huerfano River, Cochetopa Pass, and the Grand and the Green valleys to the Santa Clara, in southwestern Utah.
Leaving St. Louis about the end of June, his expedition reached the Sevier River, near Sevier Lake, southwest of Great Salt Lake, in October. On the morning of the 23rd, while at breakfast in their camp, his party of ten was attacked by a band of Pahvant Indians. Gunnison and six others were killed and their bodies horribly mutilated.
Charges were made that a party of Mormons had aided in the crime, and they were supported by Federal Judge W. W. Drummond, in a letter resigning his office and again, more elaborately, in a letter of April 25, 1857, to Gunnison’s widow.
These charges were, however, discredited by further investigation, and it is generally conceded that the act was committed solely by the Indians in revenge for certain aggressions by parties of emigrants.
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John Williams Gunnison was made a captain and shortly afterward was assigned to the exploration and survey of a westward route by way of the Huerfano River, Cochetopa Pass, and the Grand and the Green valleys to the Santa Clara, in southwestern Utah. He took part in the Cherokee removal and the Seminole War. He explored, surveyed and mapped areas of the West in what became the states of Colorado and Utah. The town of Gunnison and Gunnison County in Colorado are named after him.
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Personality
John Williams Gunnison was highly regarded both for his character and his professional attainments, and the news of his death and the desecration of his body was received with sorrow and indignation throughout the land.
Connections
Gunnison was married, April 15, 1841, to Martha A. Delony, of St. Marys, Georgia, who with three children survived him.
