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Diary and photocopy. Covers the activities of the author while serving with the Utah Militia in resisting the US Army during the "Utah Expedition, 1857-1858." He also records activities in Ogden, Utah, at the same time.

Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries kept in 10 volumes from 1912 to 1979. There are many gaps. Paul writes about his mission to Samoa from 1912 to 1916, his service in the United States Army from 1918 to 1919 in France, his marriage, Mormon church activities, and his second mission to Samoa. He also includes autobiographical materials with the diary entries. Also included area typewritten autobiography, a family history, a volume of miscellaneous correspondence and certificates, and drafts of his writings....

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Photocopies of a typescript of a diary. Pearce migrated to Utah in 1851. She went by way of New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Louis, Missouri. She gives details on the trek to Utah. She lived in Ogden, Utah. There is a gap in the diary from 1852 to 1868. Pearce moved to California in 1869.

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Typewritten and notarized affidavits. The materials purport that the second president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young (1801-1877), visited Provo, Utah, on numerous occasions and predicted that there would be a Mormon temple built on a bench of land northeast of the town. He also predicted that a railroad line would go west from Ogden, Utah, across the Great Salt Lake. These items are stories handed down by word of mouth through family members in Provo, Utah.

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Photocopies of a handwritten diary and short biographies of Shupe family members. The diaries were kept from 1898 to 1901 when Shupe was serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Southern States, primarily in Tennesee, Kentucky, and Virginia.

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Photocopy of a typescript. The history of Stowell's family is presented by another person. Stowell tells her own story for the years from 1857 to 1892. Cynthia lived in Ogden, Utah; describes activities during the Utah War of 1857 to 1858; writes of her life as a polygamous wife; and relates her move to Juarez, Mexico, in 1892. Also included is a patriarchal blessing.

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Handwritten diary with photocopies. Tracy writes about his activities as a missionary for the Mormon Church in the East of the United States and in Great Britain. He also writes about his life after returning to Ogden.

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Typescript of autobiography. Nancy was born in New York and raised by her grandparents. She married Moses Tracy in 1832 and joined the Mormon Church in 1834. She lived in Kirtland, Ohio; Far West, Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; "Winter Quarters"; and Ogden, Utah. She witnessed and experienced some of the persecutions of Mormons in Missouri and Illinois. She went with her husband on a mission to New York and was a member of the Mormon Relief Society in Nauvoo. She covers her life until 1860.

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Typewritten list of books (photocopy) owned by Oman Tracy and a series of handwritten historian's notes arranged chronologically about the early history of Ogden, Utah and Weber County, Utah.

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Photocopies of handwritten diaries. Waldron writes about his life on a farm at Samaria, a small town near Malad, Idaho. He records his farming and Mormon Church activities and tells about his travels. He regularly hauled goods to Ogden, Utah, 1878-1883. The diaries cover the years 1889-1896, 1906-1918, and 1922-1933.