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Hannah Hough reminiscences

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Description: Typed four-page manuscript by Hannah Hough about her trip from New York to San Francisco. She talks about the troubles she had on her journey, her arrival in California and her family's difficult life there, and their return to Illinois.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: before 1904.
Call number: mssHM 84376
Creator: Hough, Hannah (1825-1904)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Sarah A. Bianco, August 1997.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Hannah Penney Green letters to John Witham Penney

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In her letters to her brother, Green talks about her difficult life: she does a variety of jobs to earn money, she often worries about money and obtaining her husband's pension (she hired a lawyer), family problems, moving often for work, etc. She also talks about vising a tin mine near Perris and, in her last letter, she describes her experience with the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

mssGreen letters

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Hannah Milhous Nixon letter to Elisabeth F. Payne

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In this letter, Hannah Nixon describes Seattle and the backyard of her son (Edward) and daughter-in-law's (Gay Lynne Nixon) house. She mentions her grandchildren and notes that Gay is taking a teaching course and "Eddie" must log a certain amount of flight hours in addition to his teaching and lecturing.

mssHM 30951

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Autobiography of Hannah Hood Hill Romney [microform]: 1922

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Microfilm of a typescript of Hannah Hood Hill Romney's autobiography, written in 1922. The typescript was made from the original by Jasmine Romney Edmunds in 1936. In the autobiography, Hannah covers her husband's mission to England (which began about a year after their marriage), her accompanying him to meetings as home missionaries , their decision to enter into polygamy and her relationships with Miles' other wives, their experiences in St. George and St. Johns, the births of her children and notes on their various life events, her journey to Mexico and her life in Juarez, and her subsequent travels throughout California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah.

MSS MFilm 00147

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Margaret Jane Cooper diary

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Cooper's diary begins January 1, 1862 while she was living in Pennsylvania. In March 1862, her husband Adam left for the mining town Lincoln City, Colorado. In 1863, she joined him in Colorado. She talks about Denver and mining some. She specifically talks about Indians possibly attacking Denver and martial law being enacted in February 1865. In 1867, she talks about her family's trip back to Pennsylvania (although it seems they later returned to Colorado). She also talks about Lincoln's assassination and funeral. Throughout the whole diary she talks chiefly about her personal life: visits with family and friends; the weather; church going; etc. The diary ends in April 1873. With the diary are six loose pages of writing by Cooper. These include information about her family and some diary entries. There is also a program for "Centennial Federal Reception" in 1876 as well as a letter by J. F. Lewis, MD, to Adam Cooper, also from 1876.

mssHM 80588

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Mary Ann Hafen reminiscences

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This small group consists of three letters Mary wrote to her children and relatives as well as two versions of reminiscences of her family's voyage from Switzerland to New York City and then on to Utah in a handcart company. In these accounts she describes the harsh conditions of their journey to Utah and the struggles of frontier and pioneer life. With the help of her son, Le Roy Reuben Hafen (1893-), his wife Ann W. (Ann Woodbury) Hafen (1893-1970), and granddaughter, Juanita Brooks (1898-), Mary was able to publish her life story, "Recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860: with some account of frontier life in Utah and Nevada" in 1938.

mssHM 66379-66383

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Experiences and reminiscences of Raymond William Milnor

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In this manuscript, Milnor reminiscences about his life. He talks about his childhood in Iowa where he played around railroad tracks and attended a school with a graduating class of 14 students. He talks about his work with the railroads and trips he took. He talks briefly about his time in the war and time spent at Yellowstone Park on his journey to California. Milnor ends his reminiscences with several pages covering his life in southern California - his varying jobs, the many times his family moved around, his daughters' education, family vacations, his retirement, etc.

mssHM 73895

Hannah Hough reminiscences

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