Scope and Contents Contains biographical materials on Russel Benson Backus' ancestors, Albert Galliton Earl and Elvira Egbert Carson. Carson's autobiography covers 1821-1898 and discusses her life as a Mormon pioneer. Earl's biography, written by his daughter Elizabeth Elvira Earl Cordner, covers 1846-1909 and discusses his experiences in the Civil War and as a businessman in Utah. The collection includes original documents as well as photocopies, and both biographies are available on DVD. Materials dated...

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This collection contains the Blaisdell family papers, consisting of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, programs, articles, family history notes and papers, genealogy books, articles, and other miscellaneous papers, dated circa 1800-1984.

Scope and Contents Diaries and memoir tell of Church's life's work, the weather, his accounts of the U.S. Civil War including events at Fort Sumpter (South Carolina), Secession of the Southern States and the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln. One diary contains a brief entry by Church's son, John A. Church, in 1889. The four diaries describe the day-to-day occurrences encountered by Church, including deaths of loved ones and acquaintances (which are described frequently). The fourth item, a...

Scope and Contents Contains letters between immediate and extended family members of Elizabeth Touchstone Clayton, which come from various states including Texas, Alabama, Washington, New York, and New Jersey. A majority of the letters are between husband, William D. Craig, and wife, Bessie Graham Craig. Also includes letters from Gavin Drummond Hunt to his sister, Mary Craig, and letters from Allie G. Hunt. The letters date before, during, and after the American Civil War, and some letters include...

Scope and Contents Photocopies of the handwritten diary of Reverend Benjamin Fry, a prominent Methodist minister, written between September 28, 1861, and August 4, 1863, while serving as a military chaplain to the 22nd Regiment of the Ohio Voluntary Infantry during the Civil War. At the end of the diary, Fry includes two pages of dates and corresponding scripture references, which seem to be topics for sermons he (and sometimes others) gave in three different camps during the war. Materials dated 1861 to...

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Civil War correspondence of Edward M. Hayhurst to and from his family, including typescripts; as well as photographs, genealogical papers, and other family materials.

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Contains two journals. One journal, written by E. B. Hubbel, during the Mexican American War. The second journal includes a continuation of E. B. Hubbel's writings, some Mexican Treasury records, and the journal of Frank. D. Hubbel during the American Civil War. Materials dated 1836-1862.

Abstract The Thomas L. and Elizabeth W. Kane family collection, 1835-1931, contains a series of materials relating primarily to Thomas, Elizabeth, and three of their four children: Harriet Amelia Kane, Elisha Kent Kane, and Evan O'Neill Kane. Among these is an American Civil War pocketbook kept by Thomas L. Kane; an original patriarchal blessing given to Thomas at Council Bluffs by Mormon patriarch John Smith and recorded by Wilford Woodruff; a letter sent from Brigham Young to Thomas when the latter...

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Materials include a letter from Francis John King to his wife Martha King while working for the Findlay Oil Refining Company. This letter was written during his first week working for the company. Topics include his health, his new office, and hotel room. Dated October 7, 1886.

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Letters from Davidson to her father, Fielding Garr, her mother, Pauline Turner Garr, her sister, Nancy Garr Badger Stringham, and her nephew, Rodney C. Badger, written from Richmond, Indiana concerning family, the Civil War, polygamy and the persecution of the Mormons. Also includes genealogical information and a letter from Virginia B. Cutler to R.L. Ashby concerning the Davidson letters.