Item Detail
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MSS SC 3213
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Andrew Jackson Allen Autobiography and Diary
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Allen, Andrew Jackson
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1857-1884
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Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript of an autobiography and diary. Allen writes about his youth in Kentucky and move to Missouri after he joined the Mormon Church. He later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and joined the Mormon exodus to Utah in 1847. He tells about the hardships of early settlement in Salt Lake City, Utah. His diary starts in 1857. It has many gaps and entries were often months apart. He writes about the "Utah War;" his work on the railroad in 1868 and 1869; his contact with Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church; his mission to the Indians of Arizona in 1873; and gives his opinion of the establishment of the United Order.