Manuscripts

E.R. Plummer diary

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Description: Eugenio Plummer's 1891-1893 diary, which focuses on accounting notes for dealings in agriculture, livestock, and land. Also includes notes on court cases, some family genealogy, and entries on Plummer's daily activities.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1891-1893.
Call number: mssHM 74643
Creator: Plummer, Eugenio Rafael (1852-1943)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jack Preston, February 12, 1945.
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Charles Plummer diaries

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Two diaries kept by Charles Plummer, one while he was traveling from Boston to San Francisco in 1849 and one while he was sailing from Boston to Brazil in 1863-1864. The 1849 diary begins with Plummer's preparations to leave Boston and his joining of the New England and California Trading and Mining Association. He departed from Boston on the ship Lenore in February 1849 and while on board recorded notes on brigs he has seen (including his tracking of the brig Charlotte), a minstrel's concert on board, his stop at the Port of Talcahuana (Chile), and notes on the flying fish and birds he has seen, including the capture of an albatross. He also writes of difficulties with the Association, noting that various members had been tried on board for "deception, falsehood, neglect of duty, intemperance &c." In July the Lenore put down anchor near Benicia and Plummer was chosen to join a "pioneer party to the mines" which traveled up the Sacramento River to the Feather River and set up a "gold washer." The trip was ultimately disappointing, and things did not improve upon the party's return to the Lenore, where on September 10 "a mutiny...result[ed] in the dissolution of our company." In November the Lenore was sold and Plummer stayed for a few months in San Francisco, which was "truly a dark time," as his companion Morris had dysentery and Plummer suffered from a "bad cough [and] two very sore fingers." He wrote that their only opportunity for the winter might be to "go to the mines," which he hoped to avoid at all costs. In December Plummer came down with dysentery and began taking opium pills, and made few further entries in the diary until he gave it up completely on December 18.

mssHM 75054-75055

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Charles Plummer journal

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This journal is an account by Charles Plummer documenting his travels and gold mining experiences California, which took place in 1850-1851. The majority of the volume concerns the trip, which lasted from 1850, May 2 to 1851, October 1. While Plummer was digging outside Stockton, there were several instances of theft and murder in the town and the surrounding mining claims. He describes digging for gold as "very poor business." Bound leather volume. Journal entries begin in 1842; most of the early entries are financial notes, such as bills paid.

mssHM 2017

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Orson W. Huntsman diary

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Typescript of Orson W. Huntsman's diary spanning 1868-1890. The diary appears to be more of an autobiography that may have been compiled at a later date. It covers Huntsman's early life in Iowa, the whipping of his father by a mob in Illinois, his arrival at Salt Lake City and settlement at Lake Point, a subsequent move to Beaver County, the coming of Johnston's Army and the Utah War, a list of settlers at Shole Creek, his work on a telegraph line, comments on polygamy, notes on the Pulsipher family, his experiences with a United Order, his travels throughout Utah, and a Huntsman family genealogy. The majority of the daily entries focus on Huntsman's home and community life at various settlements in Utah.

mssHM 27979

Diaries of Allen Frost [microform] : 1874-1901. Reel 1

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Microfilm of nine diary volumes kept by Allen Frost between 1874 and 1901. The first volumes begins as an autobiography, kept while Frost was living at the United Order at Mt. Carmel in Long Valley in 1874. He describes his childhood in England, his journey to New York to live with an uncle, his work in machine shops in New York and as a farmer in Maine, his frequent illnesses, his conversion to Mormonism, his traveling primarily by steamer and rail through New York and Pennsylvania and on to Missouri on his way to Utah in 1861, and his settlement in Bountiful. The volume includes diary entries from 1874-1878 that focus on his life at the United Order at Mt. Carmel and also contains a list of names officiated for in the St. George Temple (January 15, 1878), some genealogy, account notes, a property appraisal, and various notes on the United Order. The diaries dated 1878-1890 primarily recount Frost's daily activities and labors in and around the United Order, St. George, Orderville, and Round Valley, as well as his travels through Utah and Arizona. The diary dated 1890-1893 commences when Frost had moved to Snowflake, Arizona, and the remaining volumes trace his experiences there through his death in 1901. The diary volumes are arranged on three reels of microfilm as follows: Reel 1 - autobiography/diary dated 1874-1878 and diary volumes dated 1878-1880 and 1880-1882; Reel 2 - diary volumes dated 1883-1893; Reel 3 - diary volumes dated 1893-1901.

MSS MFilm 00130