Keeseo arrived in Beaver, fine young men who might have done much good, but the natural aversion of the average young women to being assisted at childbirth by a man physician was as widespread and deep-seated among the early Mormons as if the...
Others were implicated and indicted with Lee, but on his conviction and execution, they were discharged. The record of this famous trial is found in Minute Book No. 1 of Second Judicial Court of Utah, record of 1874-77. JUDGE HAWLEY WRITES THE WAR...
present highway bridge. Bullion made in the crude smelter was made into bullets, in rough molds, for the rifles of the settlers of this entire area.
The ore was soft in nature, with gold assays running as high as one-half ounce to the ton, silver...
Copper Gulch, including the New Years, Belmont and Purity claims, adjoining the Cactus. CHARCOAL BURNING Thirty-six beehive charcoal kilns supplied the furnaces of the San Francisco District with fuel. They were in eight groups, under separate...
time while he returned to Nephi to close his affairs. He then came back to Milford and took over the active management of his store, adding a large feed lot with stables, a large barn, and camp houses. His business was supplying the freighters,...
Thurs. April 20, 1905: Ther. Pleasant., Wea. Thin clds S.W. wind. We left Cache about 9-15 this morning, followed the Rail Road track east to Lawton Elders Cox and Alred came in on the train, we all got a room till morning at the Alamo Hotel, for...
Tues. June 27, 1905: Ther. Sultry Wea. Cloudy. cleared off pm We ate dinner with Mr. J.A. Burt about a quarter south of the school house. Stopped in the shade of a vacant house and took a shave this afternoon. Went another mile west along the Base...
Mon. Aug. 21, 1905: Ther. Hot again., Wea. Clouds Done some more canvassing this pm Were in a house conversing with a lady when her husband a dirty insulting wretch came in and began raking the Church over the coals, said he had two uncles that...
Mon. Dec. 11, 1905: Ther. Cold., Wea. Light clds After going to Hastings for our mail, we commenced looking for the directors in the Texas school district. Mr. Cassady was anxious for us to preach but Mr. Woodson said it was the agreement that...
Johnson, George Washington; Nauvoo Temple Janitor; Huntington (Utah)
A photograph of George Washington Johnson later in his life. He had been the janitor of the Nauvoo Temple and was the last one to lock it up. They keys were given to the new Nauvoo Temple and hang there with his photograph. After moving west with...
Brigham Young in July of 1847. He made a round trip to California by way of Cedar Valley in the winter and spring of 1847-48, returning with cattle and wagons--the first such conveyances to cross the Old Spanish Trail. Jefferson Hunt returned again...
Henry was twelve years old when his father died, September 19, 1836.~ burial record in Wybunbury stated that Randle Lunt was The 70 years old and was of Bagnall in Eccleshall, Staffordshire. At that time, Henry's older brothers were ages 29 and 27....
Henry worked in the store with the idea of saving his earnings, not to be a merchant, but to travel to America to be with other Mormons. Jeter Clinton was in charge of organizing the 402 Saints who boarded the ship Argo. They left England Jan. 10,...
found such a concentration of steamboats. They stretched for four or five miles, curving with the river itse& sometimes two and three deep. By night, the procession of boats on the lower river was one of magical splendor. Hundreds of lights glanced...
years before.I9The city of Winter Quarters (now Omaha, Nebraska), where some of the people from Nauvoo settled, was across the Missouri River on the west bank. Weakened by the long trek, the Inhabitants were plagued by disease but were still able...
the same ship as Henry, was Captain of the first company. The last company left on July 4, and took until sometime in October to reach Salt Lake City. It was unwise to leave Kanesville any later because of bad weather that late in the season. There...
saving weeks in travel and the hard labor of blazing a new trail. They had in mind the moving of the people who would come after them. The route they chose was somewhat shorter than the other trail, with a better grade. Further, the greater part of...
dangerous. No less dangerous was the task of removing the yokes fiom the impatient creatures and of the unloosing the chains. The romance of being out in the wilds was terribly chilled by an inclement sky. A few days of drizzling rain tried the...
than thuty in the hall. I took the hymn book you gave t o me and think I never sang with so much freedom and sincerity of heart in my life. One, William Simpson, preached. His text was 'Search the Scriptures.' He made a most excellent discourse. We...
for a state road from Peteetneet to Iron Springs, one for an exploration to find a new route from Tooele County to this place via Sevier Lake, and one for a railroad from the Great Salt Lake City to Iron spring^.^ To avoid the wind which blew out...