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Biography of Alexander Melville
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3314
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobiography. Melville was born in Scotland in 1821, worked on a ship that hunted whales, lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, and migrated to Utah in 1852. He lived in Provo, Utah, campaigned against Utah Indians in 1853, and settled in Fillmore, Utah. He died in 1911.
Dates:
1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Edward Partridge, Jr. diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1004
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of handwritten diaries. Partridge writes about his mission to Hawaii from 1854 to 1858 and from 1882 to 1885 for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the latter when he served as mission president. He writes about incidents during the Utah War (1857-1858), and settling in Farmington and in Fillmore, Utah, where he served as bishop. Patridge also writes about his work as a probate judge in Millard County, as a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature in the 1870s,...
Dates:
1854-1899
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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