Item Detail
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17582
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English
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Journal (1819-1887)
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History of Robert Gardner Jr.
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Salt Lake City
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n.p.
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"1. Autobiographical sketch, pp. 155. Born at Kilsyth, Stirling, Scotland, 1819. Family went to Dalhousie, Upper Canada, 1820s. Moved to Warwick Township, Kent, Canada West, 1830s. Methodist. Married Jane McKeown, 1841. Baptized into Mormon Church, 1845. Visited Nauvoo, 1845. Family sold farms in Canada, c. 1846. To Nauvoo. At Winter Quarters. Crossed plains, 1847. Built sawmills. Mistake in planting seed, 1848. Crickets. Married Cynthia Lovenia Berry as plural wife, 1851. Moved to Jordan River to operate sawmill, c. 185153. Built grist mill on Mill Creek. Broke after failure of his canal. President of branch of Mill Creek Ward. Married Mary Ann Carr, 1856. Logging accident, 1856. Handcart mission to Canada, 185758. Called home. Family had gone to Spanish Fork during Big Move. Miller at Cottonwood. To Mill Creek, 1861. Counselor to Bishop Reuben Miller. Called to Dixie mission, 1861. Located at St. George. Ordained a bishop of St. George and four other settlements, 186169. Trouble with ditches. Laid out townsite at St. George, 1862. First counselor in stake presidency, 1869. Sold Salt Lake property to Brigham Young. Worked at Pine Valley to increase lumber output, 1863. Married Leonora Cannon, 1863. Mayor of St. George, 187280. Sort of business manager during St. George Temple construction. Nominated to be president of United Order. Anxiety of Brigham Young and other elderly leaders to have temple finished. Sent to get lumber production going again. Bishop of Price (near St. George) Ward. Moved back to St. George. Separation from third wife. Mission to work in temple, 188487. Note at beginning'written at St. George, 7 January 1884. 2. Handcart mission journal, 22 April 1857 to 9 May 1858, pp. 5685." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies , 1977]