Life sketches of Lydia Ann Smith Johnson, Martha Jane Stratton Johnson, and Seth Guernsey Johnson [microform]: after 1910

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  Life sketch of Sariah Louisa Chamberlain Redd [microform]: 1935

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  Microfilm of a typed autobiography of Sariah Louisa Chamberlain Redd, written by her daughter Terresa Atremesia Redd Romney. The account describes Sariah's childhood, her life with her ill father in Santa Clara, her move to live with her mother after his death in 1862, her work as a housekeeper and marriage to Lemuel Redd, her work sewing and embroidering gloves to earn money, her keeping out of sight to avoid polygamy charges (including a description of a search by U.S. Marshals in 1890), the family's 1890 move to San Juan County and 1891 settlement in Mexico, and Sariah's life in Mexico. It concludes with a list of her children with birth dates.

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  Life sketches of John Conrad Naegle and Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle [microform]: after 1899

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  Microfilm of typescript copies of Roanna Naegle Lunt's biographical sketches of her parents, John Conrad Naegle and Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle. The sketch of John Conrad Naegle recounts his running away from home to join the Mormons in Nauvoo; his travels with the 1846 company to Utah; his time in the Mormon Battalion; his experience at Sutter's Mill; his decision to go to San Francisco to buy new shoes before departing for Utah, which led to him becoming an extensive landowner and agriculturalist in the San Jose Valley; his 1853 trip by boat through the Isthmus of Panama to New York City and overland to Indiana; his return overland journey to Utah with his wife, parents, and younger brother (his parents and brother never joined the Mormon church); his land interests in California; attacks by Indians near Lehi; his funding of George Q. Cannon's printing of the Book of Mormon in Hawaiian in 1855; his move to Washington, Utah, to be in charge of the wine industry and cotton growing; his 1873 mission to Germany and Switzerland (his son George C. Naegle became president of the German mission in 1895); his flight to Mexico to avoid polygamy charges; and his purchase of 108,000 acres of land in Sonora in partnership with "Parson" Williams. The sketch of Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle (b.1841) describes her genealogy, including references to her grandfather Lawrence Hoke; her father George Gottlieb Zimmerman's decision to join the Mormons and move to Nauvoo in 1844; the family's overland journey to Utah with Henry Walton's company in 1851; and personal reflections of Roanna's family and character.

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  Autobiography of Charles Hopkins Allen [microform]: after 1916

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  Microfilm of the autobiography of Charles Hopkins Allen, written sometime after 1916. The volume includes brief accounts of Allen's family history, their conversion to Mormonism and move to Springfield, Illinois, a visit to Carthage after the death of Joseph Smith, life in Nauvoo and Kanesville, their journey to Utah, Allen's missions at Blacksmith Fork and San Bernardino, his move to Arizona, and an Allen family reunion in Utah in 1898.

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  History of Joan Walker Fotheringham [microform] : after 1877

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  Microfilm of the autobiography and biography of Joan Walker Fotheringham, written sometime after 1877. Joan recalls her illegitimate birth and unsettled childhood, including her temporary adoption by Robert and Agnes Burns and moving between their various relatives, her discovery of her adoption at age 11, of going into factory work at age 13, of going blind in one eye from measles and catching "brain fever," of going to work at a mill in 1849 and meeting Mormon girls there, of her baptism and living with neighbors when her adoptive uncle would not let a Mormon live in his house, and of her falling in love with William Richardson, whose family initially objected to her. Much of the manuscript from this point is written in first person of William Richardson, and recalls the couple's financial troubles and work in the mill and mines, of their marriage in Glasgow in 1851, of their travels to Liverpool and sailing to New York in 1856, of their life in Mount Vernon and Scranton, of their overland journey when William was offered work driving a team of cattle to Utah in 1863, and of their life in Utah, including William's work in the mines and at a grist mill, as well as the births and life events of the Richardsons' ten children.

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  Biographical sketch of Caroline Eliza Haight Arthur [microform]: after 1874

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  Microfilm of a typescript biography of Caroline Eliza Haight Arthur, written by her granddaughter Sarah Arthur Jones Crosby. The brief biography recounts Caroline's childhood, her family's moves to Nauvoo and Utah, her participation in plays at Cedar City, and her death at the age of 36. Also includes some genealogy.

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  Life sketch of Simon Baker [microform]: 1952

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  Microfilm of the typed life history of Simon Baker by Melba Dolores Hogenson. The brief autobiography traces Baker's childhood, his conversion to Mormonism, the death of his wife and his marriage to Charlotte Leavitt in 1845, his move to Utah, his trade with gold miners in 1849-1850, his various mission and colonization trips in Utah and Nevada, and many notes on his personality and personal anecdotes. The autobiography is preceded by five manuscript pages identified as "journal before 1848" (it is not clear if these pages refer to Baker).

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