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David Cox notebook
Manuscripts
The notebook contains David Cox's notes regarding his medical education and his experiences under the tutelage of Dr. Walter Buell. Along with medical notes, Cox records his thoughts, the weather, his travels, and poetry. There is also a note with a short history of Cox's family.
mssHM 74483
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Edwin Thomas Woolley diaries
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Series of six diaries kept by Edwin Thomas Woolley from 1884 to 1906. The first four volumes recount Woolley's experiences as a missionary in England from 1884-1886, and also describe a trip he made to Paris during that time. Another family journal was kept in Ogden, Utah, from 1900 to 1903, and includes entries from Woolley, his wife Emma Rumel Woolley, and their children Heber R., Florence, and Orlindo (Orlie). The final volume was kept by Woolley in Ogden from 1903-1906.
mssHM 31169-31173
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My journal in Canada and the United States
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Woodroffee details his travels throughout Canada, Michigan, Virginia, and Maryland. He talks about his visit to General McClellan's Union Headquarters and witnesses the Battle of Antietam. The diary includes some photographs, including two of dead Confederate soldiers at Antietam. With auction description.
mssHM 52574
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John Mills Woolley: his writings
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Collected writings of John Mills Woolley (1822-1864), transcribed, edited, and annotated by Richard Woolley Jackson. The transcriptions include Woolley's 1851 autobiography and selected passages from his 1853-1859 journal. The autobiography focuses on Woolley's early life, including becoming an orphan at the age of eleven, moving from his home in Pennsylvania to Ohio, his introduction to the Mormon Church, following the Mormons to Nauvoo, serving on missions throughout the eastern United States, and traveling westward in 1846, including stays at Council Bluffs and Winter Quarters, before arriving in Salt Lake City in 1847. The diary passages were taken from diaries kept by Woolley while he was living in the Salt Lake Valley from 1853-1859. The volume's supplementary material includes quotes from secondary sources, maps, and occasional commentary by Jackson.
mssHM 75877
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A history of the life of Grandfather Jesse Hobson
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Brief biography of Jesse Hobson (1812-1833). Begins with his birth in Randolph County, North Carolina, and outlines his early family life. Also traces Hobson's 1935 marriage to Catherine Daughtery in Cook County, Illinois; the couple's 1844 travels with the James Emmett Company up the Iowa River; their stay at Fort Vermillion (which Russell spells "Vermullion"), South Dakota, in 1845; their move to Council Bluffs in 1846 at the request of Brigham Young, who wanted them to assist Mormon immigrants; their 1847 stay at Winter Quarters and move to Pottawatamie County, Iowa; and their 1852 travels to Utah with the Benjamin Gardner Company. Russell also describes Hobson's travels to Nebraska with the George Miller Company to interact with Punca Indians and a detailed account of his travels from Utah to New York while on his way to a mission in England in 1856. Also references the death of Hobson's wife Catherine, includes a physical description of Hobson, and lists the birth dates and places of his children with Catherine and subsequent wives Nancy Henderson and Sarah Dowell. The full title of the biography is "A History of the Life of Grandfather Jesse Hobson, assembled from the Story given to Henry U. Russell by his mother, Lydia Ann Hobson Russell, eldest daughter of Grandfather Jesse Hobson; and from the diary of Grandfather Jesse Hobson."
mssHM 72842
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A sketch of Silas Harris's life, as written by himself [microform]: c.1880
Manuscripts
Microfilm of a typescript of Silas Harris' autobiography, written in about 1880 and completed by his daughter Sarah F. Cutler sometime after Silas' death in 1897. In the autobiography Silas writes very briefly of his childhood and conversion to Mormonism, his experiences in the Mormon Battalion, his overland travels back to Council Bluffs from California, his return to Utah, his mission work, and notes on his children. The final few paragraphs were written by his daughter Sarah, and contain reminiscences of her father.
MSS MFilm 00132