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John B. Haas autobiography
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John Jefferson Cooper autobiography, transcription, and photograph
Manuscripts
John Jefferson Cooper's autobiography is 360 pages and the edited transcript, completed by Cooper's granddaughter, is 189 pages. Cooper's autobiography covers his early life in Tennessee, overland journey to California during the Gold Rush, business ventures including the introduction of camels in Nevada, and involvement with the order of Knights of Pythias. Also part of this autobiography is a letter to his son, Frank J. Cooper, regarding the Visalia Water Company, a silhouette cameo, a photograph of Cooper, and a Knights of Pythias insignia.
mssHM 80969
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Milo Andrus autobiography
Manuscripts
A carbon copy, created in 1938, of a typescript transcription of the autobiography of Milo Andrus. The 14-page, bound manuscript covers the period from 1779 to 1875, touching on Andrus' early life, his conversion to Mormonism, his work in Florence, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois, his marriages, his various positions of leadership in the Mormon Church, and his travels as a missionary and pioneer. Andrus also mentions his father's opposition to his participation in Mormonism, incidences of cholera among early Mormons, and the assassinations of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.
mssHM 69948
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Sarah Studevant Leavitt autobiography
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This autobiography is the original handwritten manuscript of Sarah Studevant Leavitt, dated April 19, 1875. It describes her life including her childhood days in New Hampshire; the many visions and spiritual manifestations that she experienced; her conversion to Mormonism; and frontier and pioneer life as she and her family traveled from New Hampshire to Kirtland, Ohio, to Nauvoo, Illinois, to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and to Pine Canyon, Utah. Additional topics that Leavitt covers are the murder of Joseph Smith (1805-1844), her opinion of polygamy, and the persecution of Mormons.
mssHM 66386
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John T. B. McMaster ledger of the medical practice of John T. B. McMaster and John L. Hearn
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This bound-volume is a ledger kept by Dr. John T. B. McMaster and his partner Dr. Hearn regarding their medical visits to citizens of New Town, Worcester County, Maryland from 1850 to 1852. The doctors include name of patient (some of the time), reason for visiting, treatment, date of visit, and the fee paid to them for services. The doctors treated both whites and blacks (free blacks, fugitives and slaves). In their ledger, if the patient was black, they would write "Negro" after the patients' name (although it is expected that not every black is identified as such). The patients include a slave at Beverly, a large estate owned by John Upshur Dennis.
mssHM 71482
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Edwin Eells autobiography
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HM 80829: Autobiography of Edwin Eells, Book I (copy). This notebook appears to have been copied from Edwin's original diary and the remainder of the volumes were edited by his daughter, Ida Myra Eells (b. 1872) using his original accounts, now apparently lost. Eells begins his autobiography by mentioning the gift of a pocket diary from his father, Cushing Eells, and states that it has helped him to recall events from his past. Following his introduction, as a backdrop, is a history of Dr. Marcus Whitman's visits to the Nez Perce people in the early 1830s. This provides an explanation of how his father came to the territory in 1838. Eells recalls a monotonous early life. He had fond memories of horseback riding and yearly trips to Walla Walla County, Washington. During the family's absence, "...we left our houses in the care of the Indians, who were faithful and honest, and nothing was lost" (p. 17). He provides lengthy accounts, which include how they built their settlement, changes in the Mission of the American Board, "The Great Migration of 1843", the harsh winter at Tshimakain of 1846-1847, and how Whitman was eventually massacred by the Indians on November 29, 1847. Eells cautions that the subject of the Whitman killings was the topic of fireside conversation by others as he was too young to understand at the time.
mssHM 80829-80834