Correspondence, photographs, and manuscripts related to the Rich family [microform] : 1854-1908

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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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  Diaries of Joseph Coulson Rich [microform] : 1860-1869

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  Microfilm of five diary volumes kept by Joseph C. Rich between 1860 and 1869. The first diary, dated 1860-1861, begins in Utah and follows Rich's overland travels to New York, his voyage to England, and his experiences during his British mission, primarily in the area around Nottingham. The second diary, dated 1861-1862, was also kept at Nottingham. Between the second and third diaries is a typed essay entitled "Joseph C. Rich in Memoriam" by S.A. Kenner. The third and fourth diaries were also kept in England in 1862, and the third volume also includes miscellaneous notes and poems primarily related to American Indians, as well as some receipts. The final diary volume was begun in 1869 when Rich was departing Uintah with an emigrant train to "perform a mission to our relatives and friends in the United States." It follows his rail travels through Omaha, Chicago, and Nauvoo, and ends while he was at Louisville.

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  Heritage of valor: the life story of Joseph C. Rich and Ann Eliza Hunter Rich [microform]: approximately 1950

  Manuscripts

  Microfilm of the typescript manuscript of "Heritage of Valor," Ezra J. Poulsen's novelized life story of Joseph C. Rich and his wife Ann Eliza Hunter Rich. The story unfolds from approximately 1841-1930 and gives parallel accounts of the two protagonists' lives. Much of the story focuses on Joseph and Ann's experiences growing up Mormon and relating to their families, although it also includes stories of major life events such as Joseph's experiences crossing the plains to Utah, as a missionary in England and Wales, and in Bear Lake County, Idaho. The story appears to have been based on letters and family stories, and the microfilm includes a letter from Poulsen to Standley H. Rich laying an outline for the book and asking him various questions about his family's life.

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  Diaries of William Farrer [microform] : 1849-1854

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  Microfilm of six diaries kept by William Farrer from 1849-1854. The first volume, dated 1849, recalls Farrer's travels from Utah to California with Charles Coulson Rich. The 1850-1851 diary begins when Farrer was preparing to depart California for Hawaii, and recounts his sea voyage and missionary work through 1851. The remaining four diaries were kept while Farrer was serving on his Hawaiian mission, and are dated 1851-1852, 1852-1853, 1853, and 1854. Also included on the reel is "A Short Account of My Mission to the Sandwich Islands," sent by Farrer to "Pres. Clawson and Tibbetts" in 1855, and a brief excerpt on Farrer from the Deseret News, dated 1897 and written by Ramona Farrer Cottam.

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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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  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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