Newspapers, newspaper articles and obituaries of early Davis and Weber County, Utah residents. Also, legal papers pertaining to early Weber County pioneers, William and Timothy Kendell.

Overland Journal article, “’The Limitless Plain’: The Great Salt Lake Desert –

The Trail Location and the Trials and Tribulations of the Emigrants While Crossing this Desert

on the Hastings Cutoff, Part I” by Roy D. Tea, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2005. Photocopy.

“John Anson Waite, Senior, An Appreciation” written by Charles R. Mabey,

March 30, 1952. Funeral speech about John Anson Waite, Sr. of Bountiful, Utah, and the pioneer

lifestyle he lived in the 1800s.

Autobiography, “Life of Job Pingree written by Himself at the Age of 88 Years.”

Account of Mormon pioneer, Job Pingree, who emigrated from England and settled in Ogden,

Utah, in 1857. Photocopy of original handwritten account and photocopy of transcript. Oversize

manuscript drawer.

The collection consists of an original paper and Xerox copy of a biographical sketch of a

Mormon pioneer.

This collection contains original copies and galley proofs of newspaper articles on the pioneer

history of northern Utah written by Marilyn Karras for the Ogden Standard-Examiner

Bicentennial Historical Art Colllection series, 1976 – 1977. This collection is restricted for use

unless written permission is received from Marilyn Karras.