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Henry Thomas Atkin biography

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Description: This is a typescript of a biography of Henry Thomas Atkin written by his daughter Jetta Atkin Snow Hyatt. She describes the life of her father, covering his family life in Saint George and Atkinville; his sheep business; and his work in politics and the Mormon Church.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1947.
Call number: mssHM 66667
Creator: Hyatt, Jetta Atkin Snow(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Hector Lee, 6/28/1947.
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Civil War letters of Charles Atkin

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Letters that Charles Atkin wrote to his wife Sarah Hickock Atkin and their children Hortense and Ernest between August 27, 1863 and May 7, 1865. There is a gap in the correspondence between Nov. 8, 1864 and Feb. 10, 1865.

mssHM 71682-71716

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Biography of James Madison Flake biography

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This typescript is a brief biography of James Madison Flake written by his son Joseph Marion Flake. It contains anecdotes from his life and describes his work for the Mormon Church while living in Snowflake, Arizona and on his mission to England and Scotland

mssHM 66580

Letters to William Atkin [microform]: 1884-1889

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Microfilm of 29 letters sent by Lewis Allen to William Atkin between April 24, 1884, and January 30, 1889. The majority of the letters are on letterhead from the President's Office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. Allen writes primarily of Mormon leadership and church events ("never been in deeper water in my life in Church Matters than today," he wrote in 1884), local residents, and family issues. Also includes one letter from Wilford Woodruff to Atkin dated April 23, 1888, in which Woodruff replies to Atkin's letter describing a visit from Marshals at St. George and subsequent arrests (frames 39-40).

MSS MFilm 00378 item 01

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Life story of William Henry Streeper

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This is a typescript of the life story of William Henry Streeper as dictated by him in 1923. He discusses his family's life in Saint Louis, Missouri providing room and board for Mormon missionaries and those Mormons who were broke; his family's emigration from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Salt Lake City, Utah; his work hauling wood and other freight; and details of his life in Saint Joseph, Nevada.

mssHM 66717

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Erastus Fairbanks Snow autobiography

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Bound typescript of the autobiography of Erastus Fairbanks Snow, covering the years from approximately 1818 to 1847. The text essentially begins with Snow's baptism into the Mormon Church in about 1833 and traces his travels to Kirtland, Ohio. The rest of the autobiography focuses on Snow's itinerant preaching of the Mormon religion, particularly in the Virginia area.

mssHM 27974

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C.P. (Charles Percy) Snow letters to John Halperin

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In these 27 letters by Lord Snow to John Halperin, who is the author of C. P. Snow: An oral biography (1983), Snow talks about his new book A Coat of Varnish, and answers some of Halperin's questions regarding his life and career. Snow also talks about letters of his and access to them, particularly at the Humanities Research Centre at Texas. He also talks about his failing health. The last letter was written about a month before his death in July 1980. All of the letters are typewritten.

mssHM 77913-77939

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