Parowan (Utah)
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Samuel Hollister Rogers diary, volume 1, 1841-1855
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231043552], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1134
Scope and Contents
Volume includes an autobiographical sketch for Rogers, from his birth in 1819 to life in Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois, as an early member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Includes copies of patriarchal blessings for Rogers and some of his family members, including his parents, received in Kirtland and Nauvoo. More frequent entries start in 1843, during Rogers' mission to New Jersey from April 1843 to December 1844. Includes details about the exodus from Nauvoo to...
Dates:
1841-1855
Samuel Hollister Rogers diary, volume 2
Digital Record
Identifier: MSS1134_B1_F2
Dates:
1855-1886
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Samuel Hollister Rogers diary, volume 2, 1855-1886
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231043552], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 1134
Scope and Contents
Volume includes details on Rogers life in Parowan, Utah. Includes patriarchal blessings for Rogers and some family members. Includes information about early temple work in the Saint George Utah Temple. Also includes details about the United Order in Parowan. Includes Rogers' experiences in helping settle colonies in Snowflake, Arizona, and Chihuahua, Mexico. Dated October 1855-February 1886.
Dates:
1855-1886
Life story of David Ward
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329754]
Identifier: MSS SC 3081
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm of a typewritten document. The item is a biography of David Ward who was born on 13 January 1834 in Leicester, England. He was the youngest of nine children born to William Ward and Susanna Webster Ward. David was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 22 February 1846. He migrated to the United States in 1847 with his mother and father. They settled near Council Bluffs, Iowa. David Ward and his family came to Salt Lake City, Utah, in...
Dates:
approximately 1930
Life story of Aunt Emma Webb
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329762]
Identifier: MSS SC 3080
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten manuscript. The item is a biography of Mary Emma Lowder Webb, who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1863. Her family moved to Parowan, Utah, in 1863 and then to Panguitch, Utah, in 1864. The family moved to Paragoonah, Utah, in 1866 because of the Black Hawk War with Ute Indians. At the end of hostilities, the family returned to Parowan. Most of the account is told in the words of Mary Emma Lowder Webb which was probably edited by Luella...
Dates:
circa 1952
Clarissa Alger Whitney : wife of Francis Tuft Whitney, daughter of Samuel and Clarissa Hancock Alger
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329804]
Identifier: MSS SC 3084
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm of a typewritten manuscript. The item is a biography of Clarissa Alger Whitney by an unknown author. The date of composition is uncertain. Clarissa was born on 2 June 1830 in "The East and grew up in the environment of danger, mobbings, journeys attendant to the removal of the Saints from Nauvoo [Illinois], the Morley and Hancock settlements, Winter Quarters [Nebraska], and the crossing of the Great American desert to the Great Salt Lake Valley." One of her...
Dates:
approximately 1930
History of New Samuel Whitney
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329796]
Identifier: MSS SC 3085
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. The Item was "Compiled and written by Olene Hanks Kingsbury October, 1940." The item is a biography of New Samuel Whitney, who was born in a wagon on 1 March 1851 in Parowan, Utah. "He was called 'New' all his life because of the fact that he was the first white child born in Iron Country." Francis Tuft Whitney was a poet and penned an enclosed poem at the birth of his son, New. "New was reared amid conditions incident to...
Dates:
1940
History of Sarah Elizabeth Gurr Whitney
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329788]
Identifier: MSS SC 3086
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten document. The item is a biography of Sarah Elizabeth Gurr Whitney. Sarah's earliest memories were when she was on board the Janiford, a ship sailing from Sidney, Australia, to San Francisco, California. The journey took 103 days. She came with the "Australian Company" to Parowan, Utah, late in 1857. "Sarah E. Gurr was born in Sidney Australia, February 13, 1855 and was only two years old when she arrived in Parowan, Utah." At age fourteen "she...
Dates:
1940
Interesting incidents from the life of William Wilcock
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329812]
Identifier: MSS SC 3083
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten manuscript. The item is a biography of William Wilcock "as Related by Simon A. Matheson of Parowan And As Samuel Wilcock Remembers His Father." William was born in Ince, England, on 10 October 1830. He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 22 September 1857. He migrated to the United States in 1857 and to Parowan, Utah, in 1859. He was a member of the Parowan choir. He married Elizabeth Sharp on 5...
Dates:
approximately 1930