Farmer, James, 1825-1908
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1825 - 1908
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Biographies of ancestors
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233170]
Identifier: MSS SC 53
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biographies of ancestors of Rawlinson which relate life in numerous Utah communities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included is an excerpt from the 1857 diary of James Farmer.
Dates:
approximately 1962
James Farmer autobiography and diaries
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231063956]
Identifier: MSS 1433
Scope and Contents
Two holograph volumes in three parts with accompanying carbon and ribbon copy typescripts; typescript and draft of typescript of 1881-1882 diary. Describes his early life in England, missionary work for the Mormon Church in England, his immigration to Utah and accounts of ship passage, overland travel to Salt Lake City, Utah and settlement and life in Sanpete County, Utah. The 1881-82 diary deals with a mission to England. Also includes patriarchal blessings.
Dates:
1851-1882
Filtered By
- Type: Collection X
Additional filters:
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- Carbon County (Utah) -- History 1
- City and Town Life 1
- Ephraim (Utah) -- History 1
- Immigration and American Expansion 1
- Kanosh (Utah) -- History 1
- Latter Day Saint converts 1
- Manti (Utah) -- History 1
- Monroe (Utah) -- History 1
- Ogden (Utah) -- History 1
- Overland Journeys to the Western United States 1
- Payson (Utah) -- History 1
- Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1
- Salem (Utah) -- History 1
- Sanpete County (Utah) -- History 1
- Sevier County (Utah) -- History 1
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