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Notes Primary Work ((Salt Lake City}: George Q. Cannon and Sons Company, 1898); Orson Spencer, Letters Exhibiting the Most Prominent Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ... in Rephj to the Rev, William Crowel, AM. (Liverpool; O. Spencer, 1848); obituary,"A Noble Woman Passes Away: In Memoriam of Mrs. Ellen Curtis Spencer Clawson," Deseret Evening News, August 25, 1896; funeral report, Deseret Evening News, August 28, 1896; "Mrs. Ellen C. S. Clawson," in Notable Utah Women series, Deseret News, September 8, 1900; Seymour H. Spencer, Life Summary of Orson Spencer (Salt Lake City: Mercury Publishing Company, Inc., 1964) and Orson Spencer Descendants Addendum (n.p., n.d.}; "In Memoriam," unidentified newspaper clipping, August or September 1896, in U/U, HBC Papers, Box 3, folder 10. Richard W. Sadler, "The Life of Orson Spencer" (master's thesis, University of Utah, 1965), represents the latest research on a biography of Ellen's father, Orson Spencer was in England from January 23, 1847, to January 24, 1849. H's term °f office as president and editor extended from January 1847 to August 1848. Notices of his children and his own movements, together with tributes to him, are found in the Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, volume 10 (April 15, 1848), pages 114-16; volume 10 (Jxme 15, 1848), pages 185-88; volume 10 (August i, 1848), page 234; volume 10 (November i, 1848), pages 335-36; volume 10 (December i, 1848), pages 361, 367-68; volume 10 (December 15, 1848), page 369; volume 11 (January i, 1849), pages 1-4; volume 11 (February i, 1849), pages 42-43; volume 11 (April i, 1849), Page ]11; volume Ji (June 15, 1849), pages 182-85; volume 11 (August 15, 1849), page 254; volume 11 (November 15, 1849), pages 346-48; volume 12 (February 14, 1850), pages 62-63. For biographical information on Margaret Gay Judd Claw-son, see obituary, Deseret Evening News, February 10, 1912, and funeral notice, Deseret Evening News, February 13, 81 |
