Who Was Jacob Donner

Jacob Donner was involved in the westward expansion of the USA. Jacob Donner was one of 81 pioneers in the Donner Party wagon train to California that became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in 1846.

Who were George and Jacob Donner?

1781–March or April 1847 (Jacob) George and Jacob Donner, western immigrants for whom the Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California was named, were born in Rowan County, probably in the part that is now southern Davidson County, the sons of George Donner, of German descent.

Who was the Donner Party and what happened to them?

George and Jacob Donner, both of their wives and four of their children all perished. Pioneer William Eddy, meanwhile, lost his wife and his two kids. Nearly a dozen families had made up Donner wagon train, but only two—the Reeds and the Breens—managed to arrive in California without suffering a single death.

Marcus Vance

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