Ethan Pettit journals, 1855-1881.

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Ethan Pettit journals, 1855-1881.

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Record of his life as a farmer and herdsman at Hot Spring Lake on the lower Jordan River in Salt Lake County, with occasional note of significant occurrences in Utah history; experiences in 1869 as pilot for a detachment of the King survey on Great Salt Lake; and data respecting the history of boating on the Jordan River and the Hot Spring and Great Salt Lakes.

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King Survey.

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Pettit, Ethan, 1810-1884.

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Ethan Pettit was born 14 January 1810 in Hempstead, Queens, New York, to James and May Ann Seeley Pettit. He was baptized into the LDS Church by Orson Hyde in 1840. Pettit married Margaret Ellsworth in 1835 in New York, then in 1848 they moved to Utah. Pettit was a farmer and stockraiser. He died 15 April 1884. From the guide to the Ethan Pettit diaries, 1855-1881, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) ...