Meeks, Priddy, 1795-1886

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Dates:

Birth 1795

Death 1886

Biographical notes:

Mormon pioneer who settled in southern Utah.

From the description of Correspondence, 1854-1892. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122351596

Priddy Meeks (1795-1886) was a Mormon pioneer who settled in southern Utah.

From the guide to the Priddy Meeks correspondence, 1854-1892, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

Converted to the LDS church, moved to Nauvoo, crossed plains to Utah in 1847, settled in Parowan, Orderville and Harrisburg. Was a polygamist and a doctor.

From the description of Autobiography. (Utah Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122639503

Mormon pioneer who settled in Orderville, Utah.

From the description of Record Book, 1879-1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699864

Priddy Meeks was born on August 29, 1795, in South Carolina. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840 while living in Brown County, Illinois, and lived in Nauvoo from 1842 until he departed for Salt Lake City in 1847. Meeks was a self-educated herbalist doctor and was the first president of the Society of Health, a Mormon organization dedicated to improving medical practices. He also served as town doctor for the settlements of Parowan, Leeds-Harrisburg, and Glendale, Utah. In 1879 he joined the United Order at Orderville, where he died on October 7, 1886.

From the description of Autobiography and essays of Priddy Meeks, 1879-1886. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 690638596