Autobiography [microform] (Typescript).

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Autobiography [microform] (Typescript).

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Born in Attica, Wyoming County, New York, son of Samuel Miles and Prudence Marks. Family history; conversion to Mormonism of his parents at Freedom, Cattaraugus County, New York, in 1834; information on the Freedom Branch of the LDS Church; migration to Missouri in 1835 by way of Kirtland, Ohio; life in the vicinity of Far West, Missouri; expulsion of the Mormons from Missouri; settlement of Nauvoo, Illinois, and activities in Illinois until the exodus west; enlistment in the Mormon Battalion; march of the Battalion; travel in California; Samuel Brannan's Colony; arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in the fall of 1848; settlement near Mill Creek, Utah; unprofitable trip to California to dig for gold; pioneer life in the Salt Lake Valley; school teaching at Bingham's Fort, near Ogden, 1854, and at the Holladay settlement, 1856; mission to California, 1856; construction of a dam on the Virgin River; reunion of the Mormon Battalion members in Salt Lake city, 1863; school teaching in Pine Valley, Utah, and St. George, Utah, 1864; call to the LDS High Council in St. George, 1867, and as Superintendent of the Sunday School; journey with Erastus Snow to visit the Mormons in Pine Valley, Pinto, Mountain Meadows, Shoal Creek, Panoca, Eagle Valley, Harmony, Kanarah, Cedar and Parowan, Utah, 1867; farming in Heberville; visits of Brigham Young to southern Utah; the United Order, 1874; his Church activities; temple work in the St. George Temple.

29 p. ; partial reel : microfilm ; 35 mm.

Harold B. Lee Library

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