Autobiography, [19--].

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Autobiography, [19--].

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Typed transcript, carbon, of an autobiography written by Joseph Orton, prepared in two parts in 1937 by Floyd L. Eisenhour and Lorin Spendlove during the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project and Utah Historical Records Survey. This copy was prepared from a typescript copy of the original made in 1934 during an Emergency Relief Administration project. Most of the autobiography concerns Orton's missionary and genealogical work in England; he also discusses his early life in England, immigration to New York and to Utah, and his life in Salt Lake City and Saint George. A table of contents and an index of names are included.

1 v. ([1], 3, 96, [1], 33 leaves) ; 29 cm.

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