Taylor family histories [microform] : 1933 | Collections | The Huntington

Taylor family histories [microform] : 1933 | Collections | The Huntington

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Stout family correspondence [microform] : 1836-1859
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Microfilm of 29 letters sent to or by Hosea Stout and his brother Allen Stout between 1836 and 1859. Recipients of letters from Hosea Stout include his wife Louisa Stout, his sisters Surmantha and Anna Stout, and his brother Allen Stout. Letters to Hosea Stout were written by Brigham Young, Allen Stout, Willard Richards, and Stout's cousins Daniel B. Capps in Grainger County, Tennessee, and Thomas Smith. There is also correspondence between Allen Stout and Benjamin Jones, William Fowler, John and Lydia Larkey, and John and Sarah Capps. The letters, which are not in chronological or alphabetical order on the reel, were sent from Illinois, Utah, Arkansas, California, Missouri, Tennessee, and Iowa. Some notable items include a letter from Hosea to his sister Anna in which he writes that he had failed in getting a school and that "it appears that misfortune comes upon me at every attempt to make an honest living" (Apr.5, 1832). A letter to Hosea from his cousin Daniel B. Capps asks for a description of the Mormons, as Capps had heard some disconcerting stories about them, although he concludes that "I do not want you to think this is a reprimand against you for joining their society, for it is not" (June 6, 1839). A series of letters to Louisa Stout from 1852-1853 describe Hosea's mission to Iron County, include portions of a journal he kept while traveling to Los Angeles and sailing to Monterey Harbor and ultimately San Francisco to arrange for passage to Hong Kong, and his dissatisfaction with the Mormon mission work in San Francisco ("We can do nothing here among the Chinese"). There is also a letter from Allen Stout informing Hosea of Louisa's death in childbirth while he was serving on a mission in Hong Kong (Apr.11, 1853), and a letter from Brigham Young to Stout while he was still in Hong Kong in which Young writes of troubles in Utah with "Walker and his band of Utes," who had murdered Brother Kill, John Dixon, John Quayle, and William Walton, terrorized the populations of Springfield and settlements in Sanpete County (including causing the abandonment of Salt and Summit Creeks) and fled into the mountains. Young also writes that many new Mormon immigrants have been arriving, of the Temple Block wall construction, and of Stout's family living with Allen Taylor after Louisa's death (Sep.30, 1853).
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Diaries and family history of Elias Smith [microform] : 1836-1888
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Microfilm of a family history and twelve diary volumes kept by Elias Smith between 1836 and his death in 1888. The reel opens with a will written by Smith's grandfather Asael Smith for his wife and children (1799). That is followed by a volume of family history and genealogy kept by Elias Smith. The first diary volume, dated 1836, was kept while Smith was traveling to Kirtland, Ohio. The 1837 volume was kept while Smith was living at Kirtland; the 1838-1839 volume describes his life in Far West, Missouri; the 1843-1851 volume commences when Smith left Nashville, Iowa, for a postal job in Illinois, and also includes commentary on anti-Mormon sentiment; and the 1851-1854 diary covers his overland journey to Utah and work as a probate judge in Salt Lake City. The remaining seven diaries detail Smith's life in Utah from 1859-1888, focusing on his court and agricultural work. The manuscripts are on two microfilm reels as follows: Reel 1 - Asael Smith letter, family history and genealogy, and diaries dated 1836-1872; Reel 2 - continuation of 1836-1872 diary through 1874, and diaries dated 1874-1888.
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Jarvis family life histories [microform]: c.1943
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Autobiography and diary of William McIntosh [microform]: c.1857-1889
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Family records and diary of Delaun Cox Mills [microform]: approximately 1873-1900
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