 Latter-day Saints (Mormons) have played important roles in the settlement of California throughout the state's history.For example, a group of a few hundred Latter-day Saint converts from the Northeastern United States and Europe arrived at what would become San Francisco in the 1840s aboard the ship "Brooklyn", more than doubling the population of the small town.A group of Latter-day Saints also established the city of San Bernardino in Southern California in 1851.