The Jane Ballantyne Taylor diary. 1846-1872.

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The Jane Ballantyne Taylor diary. 1846-1872.

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Collection contains of the diary which begins with an entry on 16 February 1846, describing her departure from "the city of Joseph." The book contains both dated diary entries and descriptions of events written many years later. There are also financial entries for the 1850s and notations of birth and death dates written in 1872.

0.1 linear ft.

University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8180221

University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library

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University of Utah. Libraries. Manuscripts Division

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Taylor, Jane Ballantyne, 1813-1904.

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Jane Ballantyne (1813-1904) was born in Scotland to David and Ann Bannerman Ballantyne, the seventh of eleven children. After the death of her father, she entered domestic service. She, her mother, and some of her siblings joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1841, and emigrated to American shortly thereafter. She became the third wife of John Taylor in Nauvoo, Illinois, on 25 February 1844, at the age of thirty. The Taylor Family emigrated to Utah in 1846, where Jane's thre...