Box 7
Container
Contains 20 Results:
Brookbank, Thomas W., 1847-1939
File — Box: 7, Folder: 1
Identifier: VI
Scope and Contents
An autobiography in three parts, bound volume.
(I) "Travels and Threads of Experience." At nineteen years of age, Brookbank was teaching school and clerking in a store in Pennsylvania. A feeling of restlessness led him to Iowa in 1869 and to Illinois in 1870 where he enrolled in a biblical institute hoping to become a minister. Poor health drove him back to Pennsylvania. In 1876, after brief sojourns...
Dates:
1847-1939
Lake, George, 1838-1898
File — Box: 7, Folder: 2
Identifier: VI
Scope and Contents
"The Life of George Lake," bound typescript. A note in the Preface of the manuscript indicates it was written by George Lake. The original manuscript is in the possession of Lawrence Lake, of El Segundo, California. The typescript copy was made for members of the Lake family. George Lake, born September 15, 1838, at Scott Company, Illinois, was one of ten children. In 1844 his family moved to Nauvoo where his father helped build the temple and the Nauvoo House. In February 1846, with about six...
Dates:
1838-1898
Porter, Samuel U.
File — Box: 7, Folder: 3
Identifier: VI
Scope and Contents
The autobiography of Samuel Porter begins with page 16 and ends on page 24. Only the portion concerned with the Arizona expedition is included. This is a xerox copy of the handwritten autobiography. On October 19, 1878, Porter started to Arizona and arrived at Sunset, December 1878. He was impressed with the large table where everyone ate meals and described the building which included a kitchen and bakery. His first assignment in the United Order was a trip to the sawmill to pick up lumber. He...
Dates:
1857-1986
Call, Israel
File — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Identifier: VI
Scope and Contents
Family stories, one volume. 51 pages. Contains the biographies and autobiographies of Israel Call, his wives Medora White Call and Jane Lucinda Judd Call, and their children. Included are short biographies of the following children of Israel Call: Israel Bowen Call (1875-1961), John Anson Call (1876-1958), Medora Adelaide Call Bergeson (1878-1968), Vasco Call (1880-), Lydia Call Hancock (1881-), Schuyler Call (1882-), Newell Call (1883-1968), Chester Monroe Call (1884-1934), Hettie Jane Call...
Dates:
1857-1986
Lake, George, 1838-1898
File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Identifier: VI
Scope and Contents
A brief biographical sketch that tells of James and Philomelia Smith Lake and their fourteenth child, George. He was born in 1838 in Kane County, Illinois. His father joined the church in 1832 so George grew up in the church. He was eleven years of age when the family crossed the plains and arrived in Salt Lake Valley in 1850. They settled in Ogden and at a young age George became an interpreter and a friend of the Indians. George's first wife was the widow of his brother. His second wife was...
Dates:
1838-1898
Rogers, Andrew Locy, 1854-1943
File — Box: 7, Folder: 6
Identifier: VI
Scope and Contents
"Sketch of the Life of Andrew Locy Rogers," by Lenora S. Rogers, written in 1946. Andrew Locy Rogers was born in 1854 to Thomas and Aurelia Spencer Rogers in Salt Lake City. He grew up in Farmington, Utah. In 1876 Locy was called by Brigham Young in Captain Lot Smith's company with two hundred other Saints to help settle northern Arizona. The trip took three months and proved to be one of the most difficult...
Dates:
1854-1943
Smith, Lot
File — Box: 7, Folder: 7
Identifier: VI
Scope and Contents
Charles S. Peterson, "'A Mighty Man Was Brother Lot': A Portrait of Lot Smith--Mormon Frontiersman," Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 1 (October 1970). Xerox copy of published article. 22 pages.
Dates:
1857-1986
Smith, Lot
File — Box: 7, Folder: 8
Identifier: VI
Scope and Contents
"Lot Smith in Life and Death." This article, undated and unsigned, was published by the Deseret News after Lot Smith was shot. Typescript. 4 pages.
Dates:
1857-1986
Smith, Lot
File — Box: 7, Folder: 9
Identifier: VI
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous biographical notes concerning Lot Smith's death and estate by P. T. Reilly. 44 pages.
Dates:
1857-1986
Watson, Thora Bergeson
File — Box: 7, Folder: 10
Identifier: VI
Scope and Contents
"Ancestors of Thora Bergeson Watson" (bound together in one volume).
Bergeson, Joseph (1840-): Joseph was born in Logan in 1872 to Niels and Olive M. Jensen Bergeson. In 1873 they moved to Lewiston, Utah, where they lived in a dugout. The following year Niels built a two-room log house. At fifteen years of age Joseph worked on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad at Price, Utah. In 1894 he was called on a mission...
Dates:
1857-1986