Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Madeline R. McQuown papers (1803-1976) is divided into two main sections. The first contains personal materials, correspondence, and manuscripts. The majority of the correspondence is from Dale L. Morgan. His numerous letters to Mrs. McQuown, spanning the years 1940 to 1968, are filled with information on Mormon history and advice for the biography on Brigham Young that she was writing. Also included is correspondence between Dale Morgan and Fawn Brodie, Juanita Brooks, Wallace Stegner,...

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B. 11 September 1806.

M. 11 December 1825 to Stephen Joseph Abbot; d. 19 October 1843, 38 years.

M. to Captain James Brown, plural wife.

D. 23 July 1889.

Joined the LDS church 1839, arrived in Utah 1849.

Biographical sketch containing some Abbot family genealogy. 17 pp.

Scope and Contents B. 8 January 1822. M. October, 1842 to Mary Ann Leech. M. 9 January 1864 to Mary B. Bolanz, plural wife. Joined LDS church 26 March 1842. Autobiographical. Content and name index. Parowan area. Born in Ireland, summary of childhood. Left Liverpool, England, for Nauvoo January 1844, summary of trip there, notes harassment. Life in Nauvoo, including turmoil in finding a new church leader at death of Joseph Smith. Sent on mission after arrival in...

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B. 14 October 1840.

M. ca. 1858 to Martin Aldrich; d. 1919.

No. 1-Life sketch. Born in Sjelland, Denmark.

Crossed plains by handcart with the Martin Company in 1856. Settled in Mt. Pleasant. Seven children.

No. 2-Life sketch. Includes list of children and birth dates. 6 pp.

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B. 25 March 1852 at Manti, Utah, to James T. S. and Eliza B. M. Allred.

M. 19 September 1870 to Samuel Allred; b. 3 June 1851; d. 19 January 1932.

Biographical sketch from an interview and family records. First wife in a polygamous family. Relates experiences with Indians. Genealogical notes on family of James Tillman Sanford Allred, Sr., and Eliza Bridget Manwaring Allred, her parents. 6 pp.

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B. 5 May 1861.

M. 20 December 1883 to John Granklin Allred; d. 4 June 1938.

Autobiographical or abstracted from a journal. Left England in March 1866, settled at Plum Creek between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Green Island, Nebraska. Father a foreman for the railroad. Details life on the plains and experiences with Indians. Arrived in Utah in 1868 and settled in Fillmore. 6 pp.

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B. 30 March 1865.

M. April 1887 to Miss Camp, he calls her "the red haired girl."

Autobiographical. Born in Wallsburg, Wasatch County. Story of hard winter of 1879. Moved between Colorado and Utah to work and live. After marriage, wife ran a boardinghouse in Sagers. Thirteen children.

Lived in Vernal in old age. 11 pp.

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B. 20 August 1857 at Draperville to William and Mary

Ann Manhard Draper.

M. August 1879 to Ephraim Anderson; d. 25 August 1924.

Biographical sketch from an interview. Grew up in Moroni, Utah. Attended Ellis R. Shipps School of Obstetrics and received a license to continue practice after Utah became a state. Includes an original poem in honor of her horse. Six children. 6 pp.

Scope and Contents B. 2 August 1863. M. 10 October 1887 to Offer Hansen; d. 1903. M. January 1909 to William Andrews. Biographical notes from an interview. Lived at Camp Corners (Soda Springs, Idaho). After marriage to Andrews, lived in Logan. Andrews, William B. 2 September 1854. M. December 1873 to Valeria Reese. M. January 1909 to Elizabeth Jensen Hansen. Biographical notes from an interview. Came to Salt Lake...

Scope and Contents B. 14 June 1835. M. March 1857 to Laura Altha Gibson. M. 1861 to Manomas Lovina Gibson, plural wife, sister to first wife. D. 8 December 1914. Life sketch. Born in Florence, Ohio. Came to Utah in 1848 with Heber C. Kimball Company. Crossed Plains by handcart in 1857, from Salt Lake City to the Missouri River, as a missionary. Lengthy account of expeditions to Pipe Springs and around Kane County against Indians, including lists of members of the...

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B. 10 March 1842.

M. September 1861 to James Andrus, plural wife.

Autobiographical. Arrived in Salt Lake City in 1848, settled in Washington County. Husband's first wife was her sister so she had no problems with polygamy. Eighteen children. Tells briefly of her life and Living quarters and problems with the Indians. 3 pp.

Scope and Contents B. 6 March 1814, M. 21 February 1833 to Abigail Jane Daley; left husband January 1851. M. 1848 to Sarah Ann Miles, plural wife; d. November 1851. M. June 1851 to "widow Tuttle." M. 1852 to Mary Ann Webster. M. December 1855 to Elizabeth Brooks, Ann Brooks, and Jane Monday. M. February 1857 to Margaret Boyce. M. February 1858 to Emma Corvet. Autobiographical. Content and name index. Born in New...

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B. 9 March 1832.

M. ca. 1854 to Caroline Eliza Haight.

M. n. d. to Ann E. Perry, Marion Brown, and Jane Condie.

D. 13 January 1918.

Biographical sketch. Born in South Wales. Left Liverpool 25 February 1853, baptized crossing the ocean. Arrived in Salt Lake City in 1853.

Settled in Cedar City, March 1854. May 1889 convicted of unlawful cohabitation under the Edmunds-Tucker law. Eulogizing sketch of his life. 5 pp.

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Journal, part 5 March 1885 to February 1899. Content index, name list. Original spelling and punctuation retained. Journal during period of trouble for polygamists. Tells of experiences hiding from government deputies and his time in prison.

Lists of people who were in the penitentiary at the same time. Lists of his temple work, marriages, and sealing. 72 pp.

Scope and Contents Autobiography, 1832-1918. Includes a list of contributors to the mercantile store in 1873. Break in the narrative to give brief history of Christopher Abel Arthur, his father. Autobiography covers 1832 to 1918, repetitious of first section and some contradictions. Summaries of life in Wales and Utah. Tells of marriages, births, and deaths. Leaves period of polygamy trouble and prison to be found in his other journals. Brief summary of life after 1900. Letters to wife Caroline, 1869 from Salt...

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Memoirs written 1877 and 1890. Content index, name list. Covers time between birth and 1890. It is, in many ways, a repetition of the autobiography and journal entries. Relates many dreams viewed as premonitions of future events in his life. Briefly tells story of John D. Lee's trial in Beaver and his role therein. 44 pp.

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B. 10 March 1845.

M. 26 May 1878 to Mary Elizabeth Shepherd.

Autobiographical sketch. Content and name index. Two sections: first, 1857-1876, the Mountain Meadows Massacre as recalled by Ashworth who was living in Beaver at the time. The second, 1876-?, relates Ashworth's experience with polygamy and his time in prison for that offense. 11 pp.

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Autobiography, Vols. I and II, 1845-1879. Name index and table of contents. Born Grawhabboth, Lancashire, England. To Utah in 1848 and baptized about 1854. Not chronologically organized but has some items of interest such as grain hauling for the Salt Lake to Auston, Nevada, mail line and the building of the Deseret Telegraph. The account comes to an abrupt end as he is being sent to England as a missionary. Continued in Vol. III. 10 pp.

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Autobiography, Vol. III, 1877-? Major portion is missionary journal from England. After his return to Utah he tells of things happening with the polygamy issue and the "underground." Also much discussion of the Beaver Woolen Mill and various flour mills in the state that he helped build. Ends after his release from prison for polygamy and his move to San Francisco. 169 pp.

Scope and Contents B. 27 March 1835. M. 18 December ca. 1854 to Rachel Thompson; b. 31 March 1835; joined LDS church April 1842. Autobiographical. Content and name index. Born in Empingham, England. Joined LDS church 12 September 1852. Left Liverpool last day of February 1855. Left Florence for Salt Lake City 10 June 1859 by handcart with two children. Relates experiences crossing the plains by handcart, not daily but with some detail, including deaths and hunger but mentions no...