Item Detail
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2441
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3
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0
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English
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Journal and Diary of Albert King Thurber
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Treasures of Pioneer History
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1954
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3
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253-320
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"Born at Foster, Rhode Island, 1826. Lived several other places in New England. Dorr War, 1842. Millerite meetings, 1843. Religious anxieties. Worked in comb factories, as well as in other things. Gold fever, 1849. Lingered in Salt Lake City to investigate Mormonism. Converted and baptized. Called to go "prove" the California mines, 1849. Ordained elder. Journey to San Francisco via Los Angeles. Unsuccessful prospecting. Advised to return to Utah. Trip to Salt Lake City via Carson. Invited by Amasa Lyman to go to San Bernardino. Brigham Young's opinion that Lyman asserting himself too much. Married Thirza Malvina Berry, 1851. Putting the couple to bed a Utah wedding custom. Managed a farm. Joined Nauvoo Legion. Ordained seventy, 1851. Moved to Spanish Fork, 1851. To Palmyra, 1852. Walker War. Farmer. Journal ends in 1862. Diary entries 14 January to 4 July 1863. Ordained bishop of Spanish Fork, 1863. Member of legislature. Building of meetinghouse. Copied procedure for laying temple cornerstones. Trouble with Indians. Entries from missionary diary, 1865-66. British Mission. Apparently wrote a later brief account covering years 1857-77. Counselor in bishopric, Spanish Fork, c. 1857-59. Bishop, 1859-74. Called to Prattville, Sevier County. United Order. First counselor in Sevier Stake presidency, 187475. President pro tem of stake after death of Joseph A. Young. Delegate to legislature. Selectman from Sevier County. Stake president, 1877. UHi typescript covers 1826-62. Melange of materials: reminiscence, annals, diary entries, material out of chronological order and subject order." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies, 1977]