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Provo (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Mary Elizabeth Coursey Hoover : pioneer, came to Utah in 1849

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230324268]
Identifier: MSS SC 2507
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography. The item was originally presented to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers meeting in 1925. Mary's father joined the Mormon Church and moved his family to Nauvoo, Illinois and later to Utah. Mary married John Witmer Hoover in 1855, had twelve children, and spent most of her adult life in Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1925

Maria D. Taylor diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2767
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries. Taylor writes about going on a camping trip in 1894 and accompanying her husband, Arthur Nicholls Taylor, on a mission for the Mormon Church in England in 1902.

Dates: 1894-1902