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Biography [microform] (Typescript).

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Born in Merthyr-Tydvil New Bridge, South Wales, son of Meridith Rees and Mary Donis. Conversion to Mormonism; immigration to Nauvoo, Illinois, labors ther as a blacksmith; exodus west; departure from his family at Council Bluffs, Iowa, while working at St. John to get a set of blacksmith tools; arrival in Salt Lake Valley, 1852; settlement in Brigham City, Utah, where he was a director of the United Order, 1863, under Lorenzo Snow; political activities in Brigham City, Utah; mission to Wales; election as Mayor of Brigham City, 1875; LDS Church positions; family data.

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

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Rees, John D., 1815-1880.

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Snow, Lorenzo, 1814-1901

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