Ben E. Rich Southern States Mission scrapbook 1899-1902

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Ben E. Rich Southern States Mission scrapbook 1899-1902

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The Ben E. Rich Southern States Mission scrapbook (1899-1902) documents LDS missionary and proselyting in the Southern States Mission (Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia). Included are conference reports, pamphlets, anti-Mormon sermons, clippings, and personal correspondence. Rich was a native of Salt Lake City who served as head of the Southern States Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) from 1898 to 1908.

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J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah Manuscripts Division

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Southern States Mission

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2013200 (unit number) From the guide to the LR 8557 2 Southern States Mission manuscript history and historical reports 1832-1978 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Library) Mission for the Mormon Church in the Southern States. From the description of Papers, 1898-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122535590 Mission for the Mormon Church in the Southern United States. From the description of Records, 1937-1947. (Un...

Rich, Ben. E. (Benjamin Erastus), 1855-1913

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Benjamin Erastus Rich was born in Salt Lake City on November 7, 1855, as one of the fifty-two children of Charles Coulson Rich (1809-1883). His mother was Rich's first wife, Sarah D. Pea (1814-1893). Ben Rich married Diana Farr in 1877 and went into business in Ogden. He participated in a mission to Great Britain from 1881-1883, and upon his return became an advocate of statehood for Utah, although he and his family moved to Rexburg, Idaho, in 1893. In Idaho Rich purchased what he called the Sil...