Manuscripts
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
