Charles C. and Sarah D. Rich letters | Collections | The Huntington

Charles C. and Sarah D. Rich letters | Collections | The Huntington

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Charles C. (Charles Coulson) Rich letter to Sarah D. Rich
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Letter from Charles Rich in Little Salt Lake City to his wife Sarah D. Rich in Great Salt Lake City, Deseret. Rich writes that he has been ill but is recovering, describes his supplies and food, and asks Sarah to pay the taxes at home. He writes that he will send her something when he gets to the mines, gives instructions on building a storehouse, and implores Sarah to "take special care of the children." He also includes notes to his children telling them to behave properly.
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Ben E. (Benjamin Erastus) Rich letter to Sarah D. Pea
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Letter from Benjamin Rich to his mother Sarah Pea, written from Ogden City, Utah. Rich writes that he likes Ogden "better and better every day" and that Brother Watson's family has been very kind to him. He also assures his mother that he has not had anything "stronger than coffee" to drink and that he has been staying out of trouble. Written on Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution letterhead.
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Autobiography of Sarah D. Pea Rich [microform] : 1893
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Microfilm of a typescript of Sarah D. Pea Rich's autobiography, copied at the Church Historian's Office by A.M. Rich in 1933. Includes a brief forward by Sarah Rich dated 1885 (the autobiography was finished in 1893). It begins with stories about Sarah's family history and her childhood in Illinois and Tennessee, and goes on to describe her family's conversion to Mormonism in 1835, of her first meeting with Charles C. Rich, experiences during her early years of marriage, mob violence against Mormons in Missouri, living in Nauvoo, her positive reminiscences on polygamy, the family's 1847 travels to Iowa, living in Mount Pisgah, traveling overland to Utah, and life in Utah during her husband's seven year mission to California. Also includes some genealogy.
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Rich family photographs
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Modern reproductions of 25 black and white photographs showing members of the Rich and Hunter families. Individual portraits include several of Charles Coulson Rich in middle and old age, three photographs of Sarah DeArmon Pea Rich in her 60s and 70s, and a photograph of Sarah Jane Rich Miller in her early 80s. Other portraits show Joseph C. Rich at age 19 (taken during his work on his father's mission to England in 1860), as a young attorney, at about the time he became judge of the Fifth District of Idaho, and with his wife, Ann Eliza Hunter Rich. Additional photographs depict Ann as a young girl, Joseph and Ann's three children (Edward, Susanna, and Sarah Jane), Ann's father Edward Hunter (taken in Salt Lake City in 1881), and Ann's mother Ann Standley Hunter. Also included are six family tree style pages with photographs depicting Charles Rich's wives and children, including his first wife Sarah DeArmon Pea, second wife Eliza Ann Graves (1811-1879), third wife Mary Ann Phelps (1829-1912), fourth wife Sarah Jane Peck (1825-1893), fifth wife Emeline Grover (1831-1917), and sixth wife Harriet Sargent (1832-1915).
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Diary of Charles C. Rich [microform] : 1860-1864
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Microfilm of a diary and notebook kept by Charles C. Rich in 1860 and 1864. The volume opens with various saw mill and labor notes. The actual diary entries begin in 1860, when Rich was leaving New York for Philadelphia. The diary picks up again in 1864 when he was living in Salt Lake City. The volume also includes various notes on a schoolhouse and Rich's British mission, as well as miscellaneous account notes.
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Correspondence, photographs, and manuscripts related to the Rich family [microform] : 1854-1908
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Microfilm of photographs, letters, and typed manuscripts primarily related to Joseph Coulson Rich and Ann Eliza Hunter Rich. The first 48 frames of the microfilm include various photographs of Rich family members. The correspondence, consisting of 90 pieces, includes a letter from Charles C. Rich to his sons (1854); 19 letters from Edward Hunter to Joseph and Ann Eliza Rich dated 1872-1883; 5 letters from Sarah D. Pea Rich to Joseph C. Rich and James Brown dated 1859-1861; 6 letters from Ann Hunter to dear sister (1851), Hannah Pauley (1854), Annabell Cowperthuik (1857), and Edward Hunter (1848); 50 letters from Joseph C. Rich to his sister Sarah Jane Rich (1855-1868), mother Sarah D. Pea Rich (1855-1887), father Charles Coulson Rich (1861-1870), grandfather Joseph Rich (1862), the President of the Derby Conference 1862), wife Ann Eliza Rich (1868-1885), father-in-law Edward Hunter (1869-1872), daughter Susanna L. Rich (1884-1893), and son Eddie C. Rich (1884); and one letter from Edmund Hood to Joseph C. Rich (1872). The correspondence was written in Utah, San Bernardino, Kentucky, New York, Illinois, Idaho (including while Rich was working at the Crawford and Rich law firm), and during Joseph Rich's mission to England. The rest of the film consists of various typescripts, including Paris, Idaho, by Standley H. Rich; Joe Rich's Account of Launching His Steamer on the Bear Lake; Pioneer Joseph Rich, 1786-1866 by Zule R. Cole (1948); Copy of a Record Written by Edward Hunter; Early Days in Bear Lake Valley by S.H. Rich; Will of Charles Coulson Rich; Health Report of the Charles Coulson Rich Family by Dr.Edward I. Rich; Joseph C. Rich citizenship certificate; and Funeral Services Held Over the Remains of the Hon.Joseph C. Rich (1908).
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