Scope and Contents An autobiography in three parts, bound volume. (I) "Travels and Threads of Experience." At nineteen years of age, Brookbank was teaching school and clerking in a store in Pennsylvania. A feeling of restlessness led him to Iowa in 1869 and to Illinois in 1870 where he enrolled in a biblical institute hoping to become a minister. Poor health drove him back to Pennsylvania. In 1876, after brief...

Scope and Contents "The Life of George Lake," bound typescript. A note in the Preface of the manuscript indicates it was written by George Lake. The original manuscript is in the possession of Lawrence Lake, of El Segundo, California. The typescript copy was made for members of the Lake family. George Lake, born September 15, 1838, at Scott Company, Illinois, was one of ten children. In 1844 his family moved to Nauvoo where his father helped build the temple and the Nauvoo House. In February 1846, with about...

Scope and Contents The autobiography of Samuel Porter begins with page 16 and ends on page 24. Only the portion concerned with the Arizona expedition is included. This is a xerox copy of the handwritten autobiography. On October 19, 1878, Porter started to Arizona and arrived at Sunset, December 1878. He was impressed with the large table where everyone ate meals and described the building which included a kitchen and bakery. His first assignment in the United Order was a trip to the sawmill to pick up lumber....

Scope and Contents Family stories, one volume. 51 pages. Contains the biographies and autobiographies of Israel Call, his wives Medora White Call and Jane Lucinda Judd Call, and their children. Included are short biographies of the following children of Israel Call: Israel Bowen Call (1875-1961), John Anson Call (1876-1958), Medora Adelaide Call Bergeson (1878-1968), Vasco Call (1880-), Lydia Call Hancock (1881-), Schuyler Call (1882-), Newell Call (1883-1968), Chester Monroe Call (1884-1934), Hettie Jane Call...

Scope and Contents A brief biographical sketch that tells of James and Philomelia Smith Lake and their fourteenth child, George. He was born in 1838 in Kane County, Illinois. His father joined the church in 1832 so George grew up in the church. He was eleven years of age when the family crossed the plains and arrived in Salt Lake Valley in 1850. They settled in Ogden and at a young age George became an interpreter and a friend of the Indians. George's first wife was the widow of his brother. His second wife...

Scope and Contents "Sketch of the Life of Andrew Locy Rogers," by Lenora S. Rogers, written in 1946. Andrew Locy Rogers was born in 1854 to Thomas and Aurelia Spencer Rogers in Salt Lake City. He grew up in Farmington, Utah. In 1876 Locy was called by Brigham Young in Captain Lot Smith's company with two hundred other Saints to help settle northern Arizona. The trip took three months and proved to be one of the most difficult...

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Charles S. Peterson, "'A Mighty Man Was Brother Lot': A Portrait of Lot Smith--Mormon Frontiersman," Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 1 (October 1970). Xerox copy of published article. 22 pages.

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"Lot Smith in Life and Death." This article, undated and unsigned, was published by the Deseret News after Lot Smith was shot. Typescript. 4 pages.

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Miscellaneous biographical notes concerning Lot Smith's death and estate by P. T. Reilly. 44 pages.

Scope and Contents "Ancestors of Thora Bergeson Watson" (bound together in one volume). Bergeson, Joseph (1840-): Joseph was born in Logan in 1872 to Niels and Olive M. Jensen Bergeson. In 1873 they moved to Lewiston, Utah, where they lived in a dugout. The following year Niels built a two-room log house. At fifteen years of age Joseph worked on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad at Price, Utah. In 1894 he was called on a...

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To Erastus Snow, Brigham Young, and George Teasdale, March 19, 1888. Report of the Sunset United Order drawn up by the committee with John Bushman as chairman. Also a letter appointing the committee and outlining the investigation of property.

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To John Taylor, October 23, 1877. Tells of the settlement they had to abandon because of stagnant water which gave many of the settlers "chills and fever." They were taken into other settlements.

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To Apostle Erastus Snow, September 9, 1886. Report from the committee on their encounter with Lot Smith when they met with him to settle accounts of the Sunset United Order.

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Seven letters of family news and assurances that things are going well with him.

Scope and Contents To Brigham Young, June 16, 1862, from Pacific Springs. Has interviewed Brigadier General Craig. Smith's company is building houses and a corral at Devil's Gate. To Brigham Young, July 13, 1862, from Fort Bridger. Writes that Lieutenant Knowlton and party had returned from searching for deserters. To Brigham Young, June 9, 1875, from Farmington. Hopes Brigham Young has not lost...

Scope and Contents To John Taylor, July 19, 1886, from LaAscension, Arizona. Tells of Erastus Snow's criticism of the settlement of accounts of the United Order. To Wilford Woodruff, January 23, 1889, from Tuba City, Arizona. Relates the settlement with Bishop Brinkerhoff. To Wilford Woodruff, December 9, 1889, from Tuba City, Arizona. Pays Brinkerhoff 1,073.75 dollars. To Wilford...

Scope and Contents To President John Taylor, December 19, 1878, from St. George, Utah. Regarding complaints against Sunset (Lot Smith' camp). To George Q. Cannon, December 29, 1878, from Parowan, Utah. To Frihoff Nielson, July 20, 1886, from Juarez near Casas Grandes, Mexico. Writes of the organization of the committee to make final settlement of Sunset United Order. Lot Smith refuses to serve on the...

Scope and Contents To John T. Caine, September 15, 1886, from Woodruff, Arizona. Requests information on an act of Congress forfeiting a portion of the land grant of the Arizona and Pacific Railroad Company, and if said act applies to any of the lands of the railroad company west of Albuquerque. Are lands between Holbrook and Flagstaff included in the act of forfeiture? To John Bushman, October 11, 1886, from...

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To Lot Smith, April 30, 1862, from Salt Lake City, Utah. Advises him that he has been mustered into the service of the United States for ninety days by President Lincoln "to be employed in protecting the property of the Telegraph and Overland Mail companies in or about Independence Rock."

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The letters from the Sunset United Order Letterbook are written by the secretary for the members of the committee appointed to settle accounts of the Sunset United Order. Each account was figured for the amount of property put into the company; the amount drawn out; and the amount of labor performed at a price arrived at. Each person was then notified as to whether he had drawn out too much or too little, and each was assessed accordingly.