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Photocopy of microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Ann Adamson was born in England in 1841, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1862. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and married James Robbins in 1865. She lived in various towns in Utah, Colorado, and California. She died in 1912.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Annie Marie Jensen Armstrong was born in 1860 in Denmark, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1868. She settled in American Fork, Utah, married James Henry Armstrong in 1884, had seven children, and died in 1929. The item was co-authored by Fern Armstrong Gray, another daughter of Annie Marie Jensen Armstrong.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Charles Stagg was born in England in 1840, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1868, where he settled in American Fork. He married Eliza Gilbert in 1877 and died in 1910.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Jane Handcock Wood was born in England in 1811, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1861. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1891.

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Carbon copy of a typescript of the biography of John William Robertson, Mormon pioneer who lived in Spanish Fork, Utah and later settled Lovell, Wyoming.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Persis Moore Sweat was born in 1820 in Maine. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married Thomas McKee in 1841, and migrated to Utah in 1853. She lived in Spanish Fork, Utah. When she died, she had 245 descendants, including 8 children.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Rachel Ellen Peet was born in 1858. Her parents were converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England, and they settled in American Fork, Utah. She married Thomas Mayne, had seven children, and lived in Bingham, Utah.

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Photocopy of typescript. Although intended to be a biographical sketch of Lois Bushman, manuscript includes a great deal of information about her husband, John, and the author as well. Covers the conversion of Lois's family to the Mormon Church in 1844; their trek across the plains to Utah; their subsequent move to establish Mormon settlements in eastern Arizona in 1876; and life on the Utah and Arizona frontier.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of biographies of Henrie family members, correspondence of Myra Mayall Henrie (d.1893), a Henrie family bulletin (June 1959), four photographs of Henrie family members, and biographies of Robert (1823- ), and Elizabeth Johnston (1825- ) by Alice J. Nielson. Nielson also wrote the biography of Amanda Bradley Henrie (1829-1903). The Myra Henrie correspondence deals with family matters and was written between 1868 and 1879.All the subjects of these...

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Typewritten records. Jacobsen, working for the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, compiled a list of the names of early pioneers who were buried in the Provo City cemetery in Provo, Utah, from 1849 to 1859. Also included is a history of the first deaths and burials in Provo, Utah. The old city cemetery was first located on the hill where Brigham Young University was later built.