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English
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Journals of Newton E. Noyes, 1896-1909
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University Library
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"Brief autobiographical sketch written in 1896. Diary, 1896-1909. Born in Fillmore, Utah, 1864. Summary of early life. Worked on railroad. Attended Brigham Young Academy. Tribute to Karl G. Maeser. Instructor at LDS College, 1890. Head of Gunnison Seminary, 1892. President of Sanpete Stake Academy at Ephraim, 1893. Stake Sunday School superintendent, 1894. Spent summer in Provo, 1896. Worked with bees. Visited insane asylum. Studied Spanish. Toured Johnson coal mines near Orangeville. Returned to Ephraim. Gave entrance examinations to academy students. General conference in Salt Lake City. Various guest lectures at academy. Jubilee honoring Scandinavian handcart company. Scarlet fever epidemic in Ephraim. Patriarchal blessing. Learned to ride bicycle. News of Spanish-American War. Swam in Great Salt Lake. Church withdrew financial support from academy. Reunion of Black Hawk War veterans. Republican political activities. Occasional student discipline problems. Four students who violated Word of Wisdom allowed to make public confession. (Young men and women were melted to tears.) Approval of new academy building. Attended special meeting in Salt Lake Temple, 1899. Flood in Manti. Received B. D. degree (Bachelor of Didactics). Excitement over B.H. Roberts case. President Jordan of Stanford visited academy. Missionary course established. Teacher complaints about pay. Two boys suspended for visiting a saloon and playing pool. Sanpete Stake Academy changed to Lorenzo Snow Academy. Grasshopper plague in Ephraim, 1901. Trip to Chicago, including visits at Nauvoo, Independence, etc. Talked with Hedrickites Attended funeral of President Lorenzo Snow. Earthquake. Teacher institute on real causes of the university Revolutions. Attended summer school at University of California. Wrote article for Juvenile Instructor. Introduction of basketball into school athletics. Ordered a victor talking machine, 1904. Marriage to Mary Beal, 1904. Honeymoon to Yellowstone Park. Opera house opposed academy s starting an orchestra. B.A. degree, Central University, Indianapolis. Correspondence study from Columbia University. Births of children. Other data supplied, although diary itself stopped with 1909. M.A. degree, Columbia University, 1918. First principal of Ephraim Seminary, 1921-22. South Sanpete Stake presidency, 1924-1937. Owned a farm and raised stock." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiograpies]