St. George's Temple Association by-laws [microform] :

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  Southern Mission Memo Book [microform]: 1871-1872

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  Diary of George Laub [microform]: 1874-1877

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  Microfilm of the third volume of George W. Laub's diary, identified as Journal of St. George and covering the years 1874-1877. The inside of the front cover is inscribed "journal prefaced & bound in this city [Salt Lake City] 1858" and notes that the volume belonged to George W. Laub of Logan, Utah, in 1916. The first page of the diary includes an incomplete entry on the Civil War. The second page picks up on January 1, 1874, when Laub was living in St. George. He writes throughout of working at a cart house, doing agricultural labor, hauling lumber, selling livestock, working on the Santa Clara ditch, visiting Pine Valley and Diamond Valley, camping along the Santa Clara River, and working on the St. George Temple. Laub often attended the Tabernacle, where he listened the George A. Smith and Brigham Young, who spoke of the necessity of building a temple, as well as discussing the inscription for a monument stone to Joseph Smith to be placed at the Kirtland Temple (January 11, 1874). Laub also writes of interaction with Navajos in Pine Valley and with what he describes as "Lamonites of the Sebech Nation" (March 1875), and worries about the state of affairs in the United States, writing that he continually reads in the newspapers of "fires, murders, shipwrecks, and treachery of all kinds," as well as violence between former slaves and the "white population" in the South (1875). The diary ends in August 1877. Included at the end of the volume is some family information.

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  Letterbook of the Rio Virgen Manufacturing Co. [microform]: St. George, Utah, 1898-1910

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  Microfilm of a letterbook of the Rio Virgin Manufacturing Co., kept by superintendent D.H. Morris from 1898-1910 (the majority of the letters date from 1898-1902). Most of the letters relate to business operations including receipts to customers and orders for supplies from a storehouse in Philadelphia. Some of the letters were written by Secretary James G. Bleak. One letter was sent by Morris in his capacity as county attorney to the U.S. Attorney at Salt Lake City. It describes an incident involving local Indians who became intoxicated, smashed the windows of the Indian School House, and got into a fight which resulted in a stabbing. Morris writes that since the Indians are "recognized by the Government," he felt the "U.S. Official should see that our citizens are protected from their lawlessness" (December 26, 1898).

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  Letterbook of the St. George Stake [microform] : 1874-1887. Reel 1

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  Microfilm of a letterbook kept by James G. Bleak at St. George, Utah, from 1874-1887. The first reel includes letters dated 1874-October 1881, while the second reel dates from October 1881 through 1887. Included throughout are references to operations in the St. George Stake, including the procurement of supplies, descriptions of land in Washington County, records of ordinance work, records of quarterly stake conferences, and work on the St. George Temple. The St. George United Order is also referenced throughout, including a letter urging conciliation over minor disagreements as per "the interests and spirit of the United Order" (May 6, 1874). Individual letters discuss Indian affairs (see for examples letters dated March 26, 1874, April 6, 1874, and April 14, 1874), including a letter from Jacob Hamblin (Indian agent in Kane County) following the death of several Navajos in which he asks that their goods be returned to their relatives (March 20, 1874) and a letter signed by Brigham Young, George A. Smith, and Erastus Snow noting that the "Indians have expressed a repugnance at being baptized in water that is not clear" (February 9, 1875). Other letters describe plans for an expedition from Harmony and Kanarra to Black Rock Canyon to work on a "Hurricane Edge" (May 1874), the completion of a wagon road to Mt. Trumbull (May 5, 1874), relations with local Lamonites (1875), letters from Brigham Young to his sons Ernest J. Young, who was serving on a mission to England (February 4, 1875), and Willard Young, a cadet at West Point (February 6, 1875), the return of St. George brethren from the Manti Temple (October 27, 1877), a list of articles inherited from the estate of Brigham Young (February 23, 1878), a comparative statistical statement of the Salt Lake and St. George Stakes (1879, p. 352), a biography of Richard Moore Bleak (p.250), a report on the exploration of the head waters of the Cottonwood in 1878 (p.295), an history of the establishment of the St. George Ward (p.425), a letter from John D. McAllister to John Taylor asking for the definition of adultery and whether offenders should be excommunicated after the first offense ( February 13, 1882), and an account of the funeral service of Artisima Beaman Snow 1882 (p.701). Authors of the letters include Brigham Young, George A. Smith, John W. Young, Robert Gardiner (President of the United Order of St. George), James Nixon, and John D. McAllister. Addressees include Jacob Hamblin, Thales Haskell, Ammon Tenney, William Snow, Wilson D. Pace, Edward Bunker, Edward Hunter, Williard and Ernest Young, Thomas Judd, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, George Q. Cannon, Franklin D. Richards, and a "Moqueak [Indian leader] and his men" (March 24, 1874).

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  Letterbook of the St. George Stake [microform] : 1874-1887. Reel 2

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  Microfilm of a letterbook kept by James G. Bleak at St. George, Utah, from 1874-1887. The first reel includes letters dated 1874-October 1881, while the second reel dates from October 1881 through 1887. Included throughout are references to operations in the St. George Stake, including the procurement of supplies, descriptions of land in Washington County, records of ordinance work, records of quarterly stake conferences, and work on the St. George Temple. The St. George United Order is also referenced throughout, including a letter urging conciliation over minor disagreements as per "the interests and spirit of the United Order" (May 6, 1874). Individual letters discuss Indian affairs (see for examples letters dated March 26, 1874, April 6, 1874, and April 14, 1874), including a letter from Jacob Hamblin (Indian agent in Kane County) following the death of several Navajos in which he asks that their goods be returned to their relatives (March 20, 1874) and a letter signed by Brigham Young, George A. Smith, and Erastus Snow noting that the "Indians have expressed a repugnance at being baptized in water that is not clear" (February 9, 1875). Other letters describe plans for an expedition from Harmony and Kanarra to Black Rock Canyon to work on a "Hurricane Edge" (May 1874), the completion of a wagon road to Mt. Trumbull (May 5, 1874), relations with local Lamonites (1875), letters from Brigham Young to his sons Ernest J. Young, who was serving on a mission to England (February 4, 1875), and Willard Young, a cadet at West Point (February 6, 1875), the return of St. George brethren from the Manti Temple (October 27, 1877), a list of articles inherited from the estate of Brigham Young (February 23, 1878), a comparative statistical statement of the Salt Lake and St. George Stakes (1879, p. 352), a biography of Richard Moore Bleak (p.250), a report on the exploration of the head waters of the Cottonwood in 1878 (p.295), an history of the establishment of the St. George Ward (p.425), a letter from John D. McAllister to John Taylor asking for the definition of adultery and whether offenders should be excommunicated after the first offense ( February 13, 1882), and an account of the funeral service of Artisima Beaman Snow 1882 (p.701). Authors of the letters include Brigham Young, George A. Smith, John W. Young, Robert Gardiner (President of the United Order of St. George), James Nixon, and John D. McAllister. Addressees include Jacob Hamblin, Thales Haskell, Ammon Tenney, William Snow, Wilson D. Pace, Edward Bunker, Edward Hunter, Williard and Ernest Young, Thomas Judd, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, George Q. Cannon, Franklin D. Richards, and a "Moqueak [Indian leader] and his men" (March 24, 1874).

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  Autobiography of George Washington Brimhall [microform] : c.1888-1889

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  Microfilm of a typescript of George Washington Brimhall's autobiographies. The first part, entitled History and Biography of the First Part of the Life of George Washington Brimhall, includes anecdotes about Brimhall's childhood and young adult life in New York state, including stories about his family's lumber freighting business. The account ends with his travels through the Northeast in the late 1830s and his eventual settling in Knoxville. The second part, entitled A True History and apparently begun at Spanish Fork, Utah, on December 15, 1888, primarily recounts Brimhall's experiences in Utah. It begins with an allegorical description of his family life in Illinois and his call west. Brimhall then recounts volunteering with Zadok Knapp Judd to help found a new colony (probably the Iron Mission near Parowan); encounters with Indians near in the area of Sevier; his service in the state legislature; continuing famine conditions and hard winters; experiences in Ogden, Cedar City, and Salt Lake City; being sent to colonize Grafton, in Kane County near the Rio Virgin, in 1864; difficult travel conditions and his reluctance to relocate to St. George and Spanish Fork; 1873 Indian peace treaty negations involving Judge John Cox and Chiefs Poikneapah, Ungutsup, and Tamerat; and his treatment for Brights Disease in San Francisco 1877. The accounts end in 1889.

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