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This collection contains yearbooks, research materials, books, and newspaper clippings.

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MS 22 contains Xerox copies of a news article in the Deseret News Series. This incomplete text is copied from news clippings found in a scrapbook, which was compiled by Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hurst.

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

Abstract This collection contains a manuscript, “Preacher From Kirtland: The Early Missions of JedediahGrant” by Gene A. Sessions, Ph.D., Department of history, Weber State College. Presented at theannual meeting of the Mormon Historical Association, April 13, 1977, Kirtland, Ohio. Donatedby Dr. Sessions. It also contains a manuscript written by Dr. Gene A. Sessions, Weber State College, andpresented at the Mormon History Association session,...

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This collection consists of a Weber State College research paper by Kathleen Newman.