Jean Frederic Loba memoirs

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  mssHM 31162

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  Memoirs and letters of Frederic E. Lockley [microform] : 1875-1904

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  MSS MFilm 00054

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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.

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  mssHM 66673

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  Autobiography of James McBride [microform] : 1876

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  MSS MFilm 00192

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  Biographical sketch of George Orin Pitkin

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  mssHM 52673