Eyewitness account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, by Orson W. Huntsman, 1926.

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Eyewitness account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, by Orson W. Huntsman, 1926.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228738145

This is a photostat copy of the eyewitness account of Orson W. Huntsman relating to the Mountain Meadows Massacre. It was taken by John M. Whitaker while he was in Enterprise, Utah in 1926.

1 photostat.28 cm.2 pages.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Whitaker, John Mills, 1863-1960

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John Mills Whitaker (1863-1960) was born in Centerville, Utah. His parents were Thomas William and Elizabeth Mills Whitaker. At an early age he studied the Isaac Pitman system of shorthand. While going to school at the University of Deseret he began working for Franklin Dewey Richards (1821-1899). In 1886 Whitaker married Ida Oakley Taylor, the daughter of John Taylor (1808-1877). Whitaker helped establish the first public library in Utah, was secretary to John Willard Young (1844-1924) while he...

Huntsman, Orson W.

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Orson W. Huntsman was a witness to the Mountain Meadows Massacre. At the age of ten, Huntsman along with another man twenty years of age, hid in the sagebrush and witnessed what occured there. From the description of Eyewitness account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, by Orson W. Huntsman, 1926. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228738145 Orson Welcome Huntsman was a settler in the Hebron area in southern Utah. Fr...