Louisa Barnes Pratt research, 1802-1999.

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Louisa Barnes Pratt research, 1802-1999.

Research notes, drafts, typescript journals, and books used to write The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Mormon missionary widow and pioneer by S. George Ellsworth.

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Pratt, Louisa Barnes, 1802-1880

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Pratt family.

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Pratt, Addison, 1802-1872

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Addison Pratt was born in Winchester, New Hampshire, on February 21, 1802, and spent more than ten years as a whaler in New England. He married early feminist Louisa Barnes, and under the influence of Caroline and Jonathan Crosby joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and settled in Nauvoo, Illinois. Pratt had lived in Hawaii and learned the Hawaiian language during his time as a whaler, and in 1843 requested that Joseph Smith allow him to serve as a missionary in Polynesia. Prat...

Ellsworth, S. George (Samuel George), 1916-1997

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Samuel Claridge was born on 5 December 1828 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshaire, England. As a young man he ran a bakery in Hemel Hempstead. On 9 December 1849 he married Charlotte Joy (born 28 September 1819). Claridge joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in June 1851 and emigrated to Utah in 1853. He established a farm and home in Nephi, Utah. He married his second wife, Rebecca Hughes, in 1865. At a conference in 1868 he was called by Brigham Young to settle the Moapa Valley ...