Papers, 1837-1894.

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Papers, 1837-1894.

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Diaries, correspondence, financial records, and biographies dealing with personal, business, Mormon Church, and Brigham Young Academy matters. Smoot kept diaries from 1837 to 1838 and from 1844 to 1845 while serving as a missionary for the Mormon Church in the Southern States. Also included are diaries for 1856 and from 1885 to 1893. Also with the collection are biographies of Smoot's wives, Margaret Smoot and Diana Eldridge Smoot.

2 boxes (10 linear inches).

Harold B. Lee Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6807963

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Smoot, Margaret T. (Margaret Thompson), 1809-1884

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Mayor of Provo, Utah, president of the Utah Stake, and a member of the board of trustees of Brigham Young Academy. Abraham Owen Smoot was born February 17, 1815, in Owenton Franklin County (later Owen County), Kentucky, son of George Washington and Ann Rowlett Smoot. He had two brothers, William Rowlett and Reed, and three sisters, Nancy Beal S. Freeman, Marstisha S. Smith and Jemimah S. Peck. When he was nine years old his father died. His mother later married Levi Tayl...

Smoot, Diana Eldridge, 1837-1914.

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Mayor of Provo, Utah, president of the Utah Stake, and a member of the board of trustees of Brigham Young Academy. Abraham Owen Smoot was born February 17, 1815, in Owenton Franklin County (later Owen County), Kentucky, son of George Washington and Ann Rowlett Smoot. He had two brothers, William Rowlett and Reed, and three sisters, Nancy Beal S. Freeman, Marstisha S. Smith and Jemimah S. Peck. When he was nine years old his father died. His mother later married Levi Tayl...

Brigham Young Academy

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Brigham Young Academy was founded in 1875 in Provo, UT as a school for teacher education. It became Brigham Young University in 1903. From the description of Photographs, ca. 1900. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 54080571 From the description of Certificates, 1891-1893. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 70765998 Brigham Young University traces its roots to Utah's rich pioneer heritage. The original school, Brigham Young Academy, was est...

Smoot, A. O. (Abraham Owen), 1815-1895

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Abraham O. Smoot was born 17 February 1815 in Owenton, Franklin County (later Owen County), Kentucky. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1835, when twenty years old, and led a group of Saints from the south to Far West, Missouri in 1837. He later served as captain of the second company to enter the Salt Lake Valley, arriving in September of 1847. He served approximately nine different missions for the Church, acted as president of the Perpetual Emigrating Fun...