Autobiography [microform] (Typescript).

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Autobiography [microform] (Typescript).

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Born in Spafford, Onondaga County, New York, son of Zera Pulsipher and Mary Brown. Experiences in Kirtland, Ohio; departure to Missouri; Missouri persecutions; labor on the Nauvoo Temple; exodus west, February 1846; location of settlements in Garden Grove and Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, 1846; warnings of Jim Bridger, 1847; hunting experiences on the plains, 1848; arrival in Salt Lake Valley, 1848; marriage to Ann Beers, 1849; member of the Nauvoo Legion; encounter with the Ute Indians, 1850; mission to Green River, Utah, 1852; missionary experiences of his father Zer Pulsipher; episodes with Johnston's Army, 1857, under Porter Rockwell and Lot Smith; marriage to Sarah Robbins, 1856; participation in the Black Hawk War, 8165-1867; part of expeditions under Colonel R.J. Burton; surveying of St. George; counselor to Bishop Crosby in Hebron, Utah; experiences as a traveling agent collecting money for the St. George Temple; care of the church property at Windsor Ranch; marriage to Julia A. Johnston; move to Sink Valley, Utah; removal to Castle Valley, Utah, 1882; set apart as a high councilor by Apostle F.M. Lyman, 1885; assistance in the building of Huntington, Utah; ordination as Bishop of the Huntington Ward of the Mormon Church by Apostle Wilford Woodruff, 1886; ordination as patriarch by F.M. Lyman, 1896; persecution because of his practice of polygamy; removal to Colonia Diaz, Old Mexico, 1900, then to Colonia Dublan; removal to Huntington, Utah, 1908; death, 1915.

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

Harold B. Lee Library

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