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American Fork (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

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Biography : Emeretta Phillips Thornton

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341858]
Identifier: MSS 2571
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Emeretta Phillips was born in 1854 in New England. She was a member of the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1861. She settled in American Fork. She married Oliver E. Thornton in 1873 and died 1934. Much of the account is in the words of Emeretta.

Dates: approximately 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biography : Emeretta Phillips Thornton

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