Parowan (Utah) -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Karl G. Maeser and Joseph Young letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3931
Abstract
Five letters, written primarily by Joseph Young and Karl G. Maeser, dated 1853-1889.
Dates:
1853-1889
Charles H. Oliphant and Orson Bennett Adams autobiographies
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234368]
Identifier: MSS SC 155
Scope and Contents
Coverless notebook containing handwritten autobiographies of Oliphant and Adams. Oliphant writes of his childhood, meetings with Brigham Young, his work as a horticulturalist, and the Deseret Horticultural Society. Adams' autobiography is written back to front in the same notebook. He writes about his joining the Mormon Battalion along with his wife who worked as a laundress, his settlement in Parowan, Utah, his fighting the Indian Wars, and exploration during the Utah War during which he...
Dates:
approximately 1800s