Biographical sketch [microform] (Typescript).

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Biographical sketch [microform] (Typescript).

Born in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, son of Thomas Draper and Lydia Rogers. Early life and marriage to Lydia Lathrop; conversion to Mormonism, 1853, due to the efforts of Brigham Young; migration to Kirtland, Ohio; mission to Upper Canada with John E. Page, 1836; participation in the Kirtland Safety Society Antibanking Company and the Kirtland Camp; activities in Nauvoo, Illinois; exodus west; death of his wife due to exposure; ordination as a patriarch to serve the branches of the church in the Pottawattamie area of Iowa; arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, 1852; settlement at Draper, Utah.

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

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