Item Detail
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English
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Daily Diary
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Mormon Diaries, Journals, and Life Sketches (Transcriptions) [Microfilm]
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Washington, D.C.
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Library of Congress
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Reel 2, Item 12
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1 January 1899 to 25 October 1912. Davis gives a brief geological sketch and is set apart as one of the seven presidents of Seventy at Brigham City, Utah. His diary starts with a record of family births, deaths, baptisms, marriages and ordinations, the majority taking place at Three Mile Creek (later Perry) in Box Elder County, Utah. Davis attends a Stake Conference where Apostles Francis M Lyman, and Rudger Clawson speak. Davis spends much of his time shooting birds, frequently over one hundred ducks a day, and is otherwise engaged in a variety of manual farm labor. He sells his home, buys a new farm and has to focus his efforts on irrigation. He builds a silo, and operates a flatboat which has frequent engine trouble. After winning a shooting contest in Ogden, Utah, Davis has dinner with J M Browning. Davis visits the dentist and gets a tooth drilled, killing a nerve. A man named Little Pete tries to steal water from Davis and his neighbors. He works as a hunting guide, follows the fortunes of the Perry, Utah baseball team and plays the violin for dances in Brigham City. Davis helps survey and build a reservoir and maintains the town of Perry's water and electrical systems.