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Mary Minerva Dart Judd autobiography, (bulk 1879-1885)

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Description: This is the original handwritten manuscript of Mary Minerva Dart Judd. The bound volume consists of Judd's reminiscences of her life; family records such as births, deaths, and baptisms; and poetry and songs. The subjects covered include Judd's recollections of her move to Utah, her marriage to Zodak Knapp Judd, their movement between various Mormon settlements, and her descriptions of her life as a woman pioneer. She also provides accounts of the births and deaths of her children, relationships with Native Americans, frontier and pioneer life, the purchase of Native American children, and the various activities of Jacob Hamblin (1819-1886)
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1879-1926.
Call number: mssHM 66416
Creator: Judd, Mary Minerva Dart (1838-1909)

Sketch of the life of Mary Minerva Dart [Judd] [microform]: c.1840-1881

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Microfilm of Mary Minerva Dart Judd's autobiography, covering the years from approximately 1840-1865 (some brief notes and genealogical accounts continue into the 1880s). The account opens with reminiscences of Mary's childhood in New York and Connecticut, and with an account of her family's wagon travels to Council Bluffs in 1849 and to Utah in 1850. It recalls the Dart family's settlement in Parowan, where they had an encounter with Indian Chief Walkera (c.1808-1855), and Mary's marriage to Zadok Knapp Judd in 1852. Mary subsequently describes moving to Santa Clara in 1856, traveling near St. George, living in Harmony in 1857, and settling in Eagle Valley in 1865 (a genealogical note includes reference to the family's life in Kanab in the 1880s). Mary also writes of her father's mission to San Bernardino, of her cotton manufacturing, of the 1862 Santa Clara River flood, and of the death of George A. Smith, Jr. (1842-1860), who was apparently shot to death by a Navajo Indian. The account also references Indian children purchased by the Judds, including a boy named Lamoni who died while in their service, an unnamed girl who was purchased in 1858 and died in 1861, and a second girl named Nellie who was purchased in 1862 and in 1867 married a "wild Indian" and left to live with his family (she returned to the Mormon settlement as a washer woman). Also included is some genealogy and hymn lyrics.

MSS MFilm 00106

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Autobiographies of Zadok Knapp Judd, Mary Minerva Dart Judd, and Wandle Mace [microform]: approximately 1881-1892

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Microfilm of typescript autobiographies by Zadok Knapp Judd and Mary Minerva Dart Judd, along with the manuscript autobiography of Wandle Mace. The second reel contains a copy of the Zadok Knapp Judd autobiography.

MSS MFilm 00413

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The Descendants of Thomas Judd

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Genealogical history detailing the experiences of the Judd family from the 17th-19th centuries. The manuscript begins with Thomas Judd in 1633, but concerns most particularly the lives of Mormons Zadok Knapp Judd Jr. (1855-1952) and his wife Ada Marie Howell Judd (1867-1953).

mssHM 70169

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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews letter to Judd Stewart

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Reply to Judd Stewart's invitaion to join the newly founded Lincoln club. Mrs. Andrews declined the invitation: "my little book about Mr. Lincoln is all I know and I am sure you would drop me shortly if I want in."

mssHM 68687

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Mary Ann Hafen reminiscences

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This small group consists of three letters Mary wrote to her children and relatives as well as two versions of reminiscences of her family's voyage from Switzerland to New York City and then on to Utah in a handcart company. In these accounts she describes the harsh conditions of their journey to Utah and the struggles of frontier and pioneer life. With the help of her son, Le Roy Reuben Hafen (1893-), his wife Ann W. (Ann Woodbury) Hafen (1893-1970), and granddaughter, Juanita Brooks (1898-), Mary was able to publish her life story, "Recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860: with some account of frontier life in Utah and Nevada" in 1938.

mssHM 66379-66383

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Mary Ann Standlee's reminiscences of life in Southern California

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The author's recalls life in Southern California where she first lived on the Ballona or Malaga Ranch where her father was a sheep and cattle rancher. When she was four years old, they moved to San Gabriel and lived on the estate of De Barth Shorb when her father was appointed overseer of the Benjamin D. Wilson Ranch. She describes the ranch, its inhabitants and the San Gabriel Valley. In 1868 her parents bought land from John G. Downey in Los Nietos Valley near what is now Pico Rivera. Their ranch home was on the banks of the Rio Hondo River across the river from one of the Able Sterns ranchos. Standlee describes pioneer life; agriculture including orange, lemon and walnut orchards; dairy farming; stock ranching, schools and the coming of the railroads. Mrs. Standlee documents her marriage to Joel W. Standlee and the birth of her children. Some place names mentioned are: Los Angeles, Wilmington, San Gabriel, [Pico] Rivera, El Monte, Pasadena, Montebello and Downey.

mssHM 27978

Mary Minerva Dart Judd autobiography, (bulk 1879-1885)

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