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Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History

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Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:

Alonzo Winters diary

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349091]
Identifier: MSS 523
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary. Winters writes about his missionary activities for the Mormon Church. He worked in Nauvoo, Illinois, in other areas of that state, and in Iowa.

Dates: 1876-1877

James W. Woods memoirs

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308477]
Identifier: MSS SC 1060
Scope and Contents Photocopied typescript of an autobiography. In 1882 when Woods was "upwards of eighty years of age" he was interviewed for several weeks probably by Edgar R. Harlan with a stenographer present who wrote down the conversations. These materials were later condensed and pertinent portions were woven into a narrative. As a lawyer in Iowa, Woods was involved in many legal actions of that state. Woods was hired by Joseph Smith (1805-1844) to serve as his counselor when he and his brother Hyrum...
Dates: 1882

Margaret Pierce Whitesides Young autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306430]
Identifier: MSS SC 882
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript. Originally written to be read at a 1903 meeting of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Mrs. Young describes her life in Nauvoo and her early years in Salt Lake City, Utah. She also comments on life as a polygamous wife of Brigham Young.

Dates: 1903