Item Detail
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6229
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English
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Millard County, 1851-1875
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Utah Humanities Review
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January-October 1947
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1
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4-part series
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"Retrospective account, 1847-73. Diary covers 1873-1903, 1919-22. Born at Winter Quarters, Nebraska, 1847. To Utah, 1851. Settled at Fillmore. Seventy in forty-second quorum, 1866. Sent to Salt Lake City to learn telegraphy, 1865-66. Worked at Cove Creek. Called to go with team to Laramie to meet emigrants, 1868. Married Carlie Lyman, 1871. Wife dissatisfied and divorced him. Attended University of Deseret briefly. Worked on co-op farm. Taught school at Kanab. British Mission, 1873-74. Home missionary. Lived in United Order at Circleville. Moved to Kingston, also living there in United Order. Taught day school and night school. Routine entries of a farmer. Always mentions the weather; sometimes nothing else. In general entries quite brief in later years. Entries also become less frequent. 1891-1903 volume more an account book than a diary. Following it are minutes from October conference, 1902." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies, 1977]