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Sketches of my life :

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Description: Memoir by James William Nixon recalling events of his life from the time of his youth in St. George, Utah. He recounts attending Martha Cox's school, his baptism by William Empy, the family's move to Mt. Trumbull, his childhood occupations (including caring for cattle and horses, running his father's mill, and driving oxen), lumber hauling, the death of his father, his work on Tobe Whitmore's cattle ranch, his travels throughout Utah, his romance with Effie Woolley, his mission work in the midwestern United States and California, and his travels throughout California including San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1933-1936.
Call number: mssHM 16951
Creator: Nixon, James William (1866-1949)

David Cox notebook

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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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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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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."

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A sketch of Silas Harris's life, as written by himself [microform]: c.1880

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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.

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Life sketches of John Conrad Naegle and Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle [microform]: after 1899

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Microfilm of typescript copies of Roanna Naegle Lunt's biographical sketches of her parents, John Conrad Naegle and Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle. The sketch of John Conrad Naegle recounts his running away from home to join the Mormons in Nauvoo; his travels with the 1846 company to Utah; his time in the Mormon Battalion; his experience at Sutter's Mill; his decision to go to San Francisco to buy new shoes before departing for Utah, which led to him becoming an extensive landowner and agriculturalist in the San Jose Valley; his 1853 trip by boat through the Isthmus of Panama to New York City and overland to Indiana; his return overland journey to Utah with his wife, parents, and younger brother (his parents and brother never joined the Mormon church); his land interests in California; attacks by Indians near Lehi; his funding of George Q. Cannon's printing of the Book of Mormon in Hawaiian in 1855; his move to Washington, Utah, to be in charge of the wine industry and cotton growing; his 1873 mission to Germany and Switzerland (his son George C. Naegle became president of the German mission in 1895); his flight to Mexico to avoid polygamy charges; and his purchase of 108,000 acres of land in Sonora in partnership with "Parson" Williams. The sketch of Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle (b.1841) describes her genealogy, including references to her grandfather Lawrence Hoke; her father George Gottlieb Zimmerman's decision to join the Mormons and move to Nauvoo in 1844; the family's overland journey to Utah with Henry Walton's company in 1851; and personal reflections of Roanna's family and character.

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Life sketch of Simon Baker [microform]: 1952

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Microfilm of the typed life history of Simon Baker by Melba Dolores Hogenson. The brief autobiography traces Baker's childhood, his conversion to Mormonism, the death of his wife and his marriage to Charlotte Leavitt in 1845, his move to Utah, his trade with gold miners in 1849-1850, his various mission and colonization trips in Utah and Nevada, and many notes on his personality and personal anecdotes. The autobiography is preceded by five manuscript pages identified as "journal before 1848" (it is not clear if these pages refer to Baker).

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