October 3, 2022 by Ryan K. Lee •
Arizona,
autobiography,
California Mission,
diaries,
Henry Green Boyle,
mission presidents,
missionary diaries,
Mormon Battalion,
notebooks,
Payson,
polygamy,
San Bernadino,
Southern States Mission,
Utah,
Virginia
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a newly digitized collection: Henry Green Boyle diaries (MSS 156). This collection contains a handwritten autobiography and diaries related to Boyle’s life and experience as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The autobiography was written beginning in 1844 …
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On this day in 1850, Elizabeth Salthouse Daniels, a widow from England, entered the settlement of Peteetneet Town, later to be known as Payson, Utah, with many of her children. The first families in the settlement–the Pace, Stewart, and Searle families, had only arrive roughly eight weeks prior in October 1850, making the Daniels family …
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