Ogden (Utah) -- History
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Biographical sketch of the life of Luman Andros Shurtliff
Typewritten condensation of the original journal of Shurtliff, a businessman, politial and religious leader, Mormon missionary and patriarch, which tells of his early life in Ohio, religious revivals, conversion to Mormonism, marriages, missionary work, mobs in Far West, Missouri, expulsion from Nauvoo, Illinois, immigration to Utah, life in Weber County, Utah, and military preparations against Johnston's Army.
Biographies of ancestors
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.
Castle Hadlock Murphy papers
Collection includes holographs, typescripts, bound volumes, printed materials (some photocopies), and microfilm. Includes correspondence, a journal (1909-1910), an oral history interview (1973), and personal writings with associated research materials relating to Murphy's activity in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly events in Hawaii where Murphy served as a missionary and president of the Hawaiian Mission and temple.
Earl Stanley Paul diaries
William Henry Wright diary
Photocopy of a handwritten diary. Wright writes about his activities as a missionary for the Mormon Church serving in Wisconsin and England. The original is in possession of James W. Petty in Ogden, Utah.