Microfilm of a typescript autobiography by George Thomas Rogers, written at Joseph City, Arizona, in 1950. Rogers recalls his birth in Utah and childhood in Arizona, including at St. Joseph, Show Low (where he was rescued after falling in a well), Lot Smith's United Order, and Flagstaff. He describes goings on at a log saloon in New Town, Arizona (including a tale of how Flagstaff got its name), living on the San Francisco Mountains in Arizona, spending winters in Utah, working for the Babbitts Brothers grocers in Flagstaff, and being whipped by other children in school for being a Mormon. He later recalls his marriages and the births of his children, as well as mentioning his work on the Hopi Indian mission. On the same reel as MFILM 223 (1), MFILM 223 (2), MFILM 223 (4), MFILM 223 (5), and MFILM 223 (6). All inquiries about this item should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Microfilm. 1950. 1 microfilm reel 35 mm;Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. George Thomas Rogers was born in Salt Lake City in 1874, a son of William Auson Rogers and Jane Fant. His parents separated when he was a baby and his mother married George Bucklar. They moved to Arizona in 1876 with a company called to settle on the Little Colorado River near what became St. Joseph. They then moved to Show Low, Arizona, and later to Flagstaff. Rogers worked on the Hopi Indian mission from 1939-1941.
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