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Diaries and autobiography of William Wallace Flanigan [microform]: 1875-1925

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Description: Microfilm of a total of thirteen diary and autobiographical volumes kept by William Wallace Flanigan from 1875-1925. The reel opens with a three volume autobiography and diary, which was begun at Kane County, Utah, in 1875 and covers Flanigan's life in Utah through 1903. The diary volumes, which are not in chronological order on the reel, are dated 1899, 1901, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1917, 1921, 1923, and 1925. They chronicle Flanigan's daily life in Utah, including at Rockville, Washington, Springville, Provo, and St. George. He writes frequently about his daily activities and labors, agricultural work, attendance of meetings, the weather, and his work at a school house. The reel also contains some loose pages with autobiographical writings to about 1895.
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Date: 1875; 1876; 1877; 1878; 1879; 1880; 1881; 1882; 1883; 1884; 1885; 1886; 1887; 1888; 1889; 1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899; 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925
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Diaries of Frihoff Godfred Nielson [microform] : 1874-1935. Reel 1

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Microfilm of the diaries of Frihoff Godfred Nielson, covering the years from 1874-1935. The diaries primarily consist of brief entries describing Nielson's daily life in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, including local news, trading with Indians, Church affairs, and agricultural work. The diaries also chronicle his mission to the Northern States and his work on the Temple in Mesa, Arizona. The diaries are arranged on three reels as follows: Reel 1 - 1875-1876 diary identified as "Peters and U.P.R.R., Morgan County, Utah;" a diary dated 1874-1875; and two diaries identified as Sunset, Yavapai County, Arizona, and dated 1876-1879 and 1879-1886; Reel 2 - continuation of the same diary from 1886-1897; a diary dated 1898; a diary dated 1899-1900 and identified as Ramah, New Mexico; and a diary begun at Marshall, Illinois, and dated 1900-1902; Reel 3 - diary dated 1902-1935 and a brief, chronological autobiography.

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Diaries of Frihoff Godfred Nielson [microform] : 1874-1935. Reel 2

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Diaries of Frihoff Godfred Nielson [microform] : 1874-1935. Reel 3

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Diaries and autobiography of Anthony W. Ivins [microform] : 1875-1899

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Microfilm of diaries and an autobiography kept by Anthony Ivins between 1875 and 1899. The first diary volume, dated 1875-1882, focuses on Ivins's travels throughout Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. The second and third diaries, dated 1882-1883 and 1883-1884, describe Ivins's mission work in Mexico. The fourth (1896) and fifth (1897) diaries were also kept during a later trip to Mexico. The fifth diary is in a notebook imprinted with "U.S. Indian Service" and has the handwritten notation "Oaxaca Land Adjustment." The sixth volume contains Ivins's autobiography, which is a mix of prose and diary entries through 1897. The seventh and final volume is another diary kept in Mexico from 1897-1899.

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Autobiography, diaries, and sketches of Frederick William Hurst [microform] : 1858-1885

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Microfilm of an autobiography, diaries, and sketches by Frederick William Hurst and spanning the years from approximately 1858-1885. The first volume consists of an autobiography Hurst wrote in Utah in 1858, and which also contains a few diary entries from 1864 and notes labeled Camp Deseret, 1858. The second volume was kept from 1855-1856 while Hurst was serving as a missionary in Hawaii; the third volume, dated 1857-1858, was begun at San Francisco and describes his missionary work in California and travels to Utah; the fourth, dated 1875-1877, opens in Utah and goes on to describes sailing to Auckland and Hurst's mission work in New Zealand; and the final volume is identified as Memorandum of Missionary Labors Commencing January 12, 1879, and appears to have been kept in Millville and Hyde Park, Utah. Portions of all of the volumes are very faint and partially illegible. The reel also contains fifty sketches done by Hurst between 1855-1885, and which include scenic and structural drawings from California (including San Francisco), Utah, New Zealand, Australia, and Hawaii; sketches of ships, portraits mainly showing women in various forms of historical dress; and a variety of drawings of plants and animals.

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Autobiography and diary excerpts of William D. Johnson [microform]: approximately 1872-1886

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Microfilm of annotated extracts from the diary and autobiography of William D. Johnson, Jr. Includes a daily record of his accompaniment of the Major Powell Company down the Colorado River in 1872, as well as autobiographical descriptions of his life in Utah, his travels to Mexico in 1885 (at the urging of Erastus Snow, who told Johnson to go "on account of polygamy"), and his appointment as a Bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico in 1886.

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Diaries and autobiography of William Wallace Flanigan [microform]: 1875-1925

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