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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Giles autobiography

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230316389]
Identifier: MSS SC 1812
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typed autobiography of Thomas Giles taken from his journals and other sources. The item includes detailed accounts of the voyage to America, the campaign against Johnston's Army (1857-1858), and the weather and farming in Utah.

Dates: 1854-1903
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Thomas Giles autobiography

Short history of Abraham Hunsaker

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330885]
Identifier: MSS SC 3217
Scope and Contents

Phtocopy of a micrifilm copy of a handwritten autobiography. Hunsaker was born in Illinois and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840. Hunsaker lived in Utah County, Utah, and writes about troubles with Indians. He was sent to settle in Carson Valley, Nevada, and returned to Brigham City, Utah. He metions the "Utah War" in 1857 and 1858.

Dates: approximately 1860
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Short history of Abraham Hunsaker

The early settlement of South Weber

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345354]
Identifier: MSS 983
Scope and Contents

Contents include four typewritten transcriptions of Thomas Peek's history of South Weber, Davis County, Utah. Peek records the history of the establishment and hardships of the Latter-day Saint people in South Weber, including brief descriptions of the Morrisite War of 1862, the Utah War of 1857-1858, and the activities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The history was written in approximately 1900.

Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / The early settlement of South Weber

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