Salt Lake City (Utah) -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Job Smith autobiography and letters received
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230320589]
Identifier: MSS SC 2202
Scope and Contents
Typewritten autobiography and photocopies of handwritten letters received by Smith. Also included are typescripts of Job Smith's "Recollections" of the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith (1805-1844), and photocopies of handwritten and typewritten certificates. The letters are from prminent Mormon Church leaders. Also included is a photocopy of a handwritten patriarchal blessing received by Smith.
Dates:
1860-1902
Job Smith diary and autobiography
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232489010]
Identifier: MSS 881
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary and autobiography. Smith writes about his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England, his immigration to the United States in 1843, and life at Nauvoo, Council Bluffs, and Winter Quarters. The account is retrospective until 1849 and some of the early materials are written in Pitman shorthand. Smith returned to England in 1849 and served as president of the Bedfordshire Branch for five years. Smith concluded his mission in 1854 and made the...
Dates:
1849-1877