Letterbook, 1867-1868.

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Letterbook, 1867-1868.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/772470159

Letterbook kept by Fred Thomas Perris while he worked as an agent for Cronyn and Perris, general merchandise of Salt Lake City. The volume references Perris' Mormon customers, including Brigham Young. It includes entries from New York, St. Louis, and North Platte, Nebraska, among other cities.

1 bound volume, 80 pages.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Young, Brigham, 1801-1877

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Perris, Frederick Thomas, 1837-1916

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Fred Thomas Perris (1836-1916) grew up in England and Australia and joined the Mormon colony at San Bernardino, California, as a teenager. In 1863 he was hired to survey land near what is now Perris, Idaho. This helped get him a position as a surveyor for the transcontinental railroad, a job he lost in a labor dispute with Brigham Young. Perris worked at a variety of odd jobs before helping to found the Liberal Party of Utah and the Salt Lake Tribune. In 1874 he returned to San Bernardino, and w...