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Autobiography of Peter Putnam, of Middleton
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Autobiography of Peter Wilson Conover [microform] : before 1892
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Microfilm of a typescript of Peter Wilson Conover's autobiography. Conover writes of his ancestry, his childhood in Kentucky, his father's decision to move north "on account of slavery," his life in Illinois, his experiences in the Illinois Militia under General Whitesides, with whom he marched to Wisconsin and along the Mississippi to capture an unidentified man and send him to Washington, and of his conversion to Mormonism. Conover also writes of working on the Nauvoo Temple, of joining the Nauvoo Legion, of meeting Joseph Smith at Rock River in 1843 and escorting him back to Nauvoo, of mob violence in Illinois, of moving to Iowa and Missouri, of the death of his wife in childbirth in 1847 and his decision to travel west, of becoming a captain in the Jefferson Hunt Company, and of his experiences in the Black Hawk and Walker Wars.
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