Diary of Elder William Marsden of Provo City, Utah, covering events from 1814 to 1871

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Title Diary of Elder William Marsden of Provo City, Utah, covering events from 1814 to 1871
Creator Marsden, William, 1814-1890
Contributor Utah Humanities Research Foundation; Durham, G. Homer
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952
Date Digital 2014-02-13
Temporal Coverage 1814-1871
Spatial Coverage United States; Illinois; Nauvoo (Ill.); Utah; Utah County (Utah); Provo (Utah); Iron County (Utah); Parowan (Utah)
Subject Marsden, William, 1814-1890; Latter Day Saints--Utah--Utah County--Biography; Utah County (Utah)--History--Sources; Iron County (Utah)--History--Sources; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History; Frontier and pioneer life--Utah--Iron County
Description Typescript (75 pages), perhaps typed by donor G. Homer Durham, probably in mid-1940s. Account by Marsden of his conversion to LDS Church in 1839, immigration to America in 1840, residence in Illinois until 1855, and residence at Provo, Utah from 1855 on; family and genealogical details; Experiences in "Utah War," 1857; Settlement in Parowan, Utah
Type Text
Genre Autobiographies
Format application/pdf
Language eng
Rights
Relation http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv47195
Scanning Technician Halima Noor; Niko Amaya; Kendra Yates; Tim Arnold
Conversion Specifications Original scanned on Epson Expression 10000 XL and saved as 400 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in Adobe Acrobat Pro X as a pdf.
ARK ark:/87278/s64t80nk
Setname uum_uhrf
ID 1050929
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t80nk
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