Joseph Edward Taylor papers 1849-1877

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Joseph Edward Taylor papers 1849-1877

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The Joseph Edward Taylor papers (1849-1877) consists of a record book or diary. The entries are brief, but cover certain events in Taylor's, and his family's, life. The diary covers events in Taylor's life such as converting to the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints (LDS), in England, his trip aboard a steamer to New Orleans, his travels from Council Bluffs across the plains to Salt Lake City, and the and the impact of the army at Fort Bridger and Camp Floyd. Utah War

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J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah Manuscripts Division

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Taylor family

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Taylor, Joseph E. (Joseph Edward), 1830-1913

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Joseph Edward Taylor (b. 1831), when Taylor was twenty-two, married seventeen year old Louisa Rebecca Capener. Their first son, Joseph William, was born in 1855, and they had a child roughly every two years after that: Louisa Maria, 1857; Elinor Grove, 1861; Sarah Isabell, 1863; Alvin Verender, 1965; Elizabeth Margaret, 1867; Josephine Lowella, 1869; Jennie Eliza, 1871; and Fannie Augusta, 1847. In 1875, Joseph Taylor married his wife's younger sister, Jane Maria Capener, and then in 1876 he mar...