In good condition.
1854. Antiquated gentleman in same slip, well preserved, but somewhat wrinkled.—Weekly Oregonian, Dec. 9.
1855. A blooming dowager, who may have been forty, but better preserved than most American ladies of seven-and-twenty.—D. G. Mitchell, ‘Fudge Doings,’ i. 172–3.
1864. A white-haired old man, well preserved, and a stickler for law and precedent, and a Hunker.—Boston Commonwealth, June 3.
1865. He [Brigham Young] is six feet high, portly, weighing about two hundred, in his sixty-sixth year, and wonderfully well preserved.—Richardson, ‘Beyond the Mississippi,’ p. 352 (1867).
1869. He [Brigham Young] is a well-preserved man of sixty-six years, of medium height, rather corpulent, with an abundant growth of light, auburn hair, and a heavy crop of sandy whiskers, excepting on his upper and lower lips.—A. K. McClure, ‘Rocky Mountains,’ p. 156.
