Memoirs of Jean Frederic Loba, 1899-1915.

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Memoirs of Jean Frederic Loba, 1899-1915.

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This typescript was dictated by Jean Frederic Loba beginning on January 3, 1899 and was completed just before his death in 1915. His memoir provides accounts of the following: his early childhood in Switzerland, growing up in Lausanne and Ouchy; his family's conversion to Mormonism; their emigration to the United States and the hardships of their travel to Utah; his dissatisfaction with and criticisms of the Mormon life they found there; details of his family's escape from Utah; his work life in Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois; his activities in the Missouri Veteran Volunteer Cavalry; his education at Olivet College; his travel to Switzerland in 1875; and his pastoral activities in Illinois and Michigan.

54 pages, 28 cm., typescript.

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