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Kanosh (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Bement and Alice Bement Fletcher correspondence

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225532875]
Identifier: MSS 3255
Scope and Contents Twelve letters written between Charles and his half-sister Alice. Also contains one letter from Maria Josephine Hill Searle to Sarah Julia Hill Bement, Alice's mother. Most of the letters are written by Charles in Kanosh, Utah, and sent to Alice in Salt Lake. However, two of the letters were written by Charles while he was on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Illinois. The letters deal primarily with family and local matters. Some letters are fairly detailed...
Dates: 1869-1889

Biographies of ancestors

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSSSC53

Biographies of ancestors

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233170]
Identifier: MSS SC 53
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographies of ancestors of Rawlinson which relate life in numerous Utah communities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included is an excerpt from the 1857 diary of James Farmer.

Dates: approximately 1962

Christen Frank Christensen autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230235266]
Identifier: MSS SC 179
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiographical sketch. Christensen writes about settling in Kanosh, Utah, his experiences as a missionary for the Mormon Church in the Southern States, and his marriage to Clara A. Kimball in 1886.

Dates: 1940

George Crane Missionary Journal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225522280]
Identifier: MSS 3182
Scope and Contents

The journal describes George Crane's activities as a missionary between 1879 and 1880. It also includes a list of livestock he owned in 1890 and a brief biographical sketch of President John Taylor.

Dates: 1879-1880

Abraham Alonzo Kimball diaries

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3209
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of three handwritten diaries. Kimball kept these diaries from July 1878 to April 1881. Kimball served on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 1878 to 1879 and writes about his activities at that time. After he returned to Utah, Kimball was called to be the bishop of the Kanosh, Utah, ward of the Mormon Church. He writes about his work as a bishop and about his political activities at that time.

Dates: 1878-1881