Microfilm of a typescript of Goudy Hogan's autobiography, typed by Muriel Hogan Hunter in 1935. This copy was owned by Margaret Hogan Traveller. Included are descriptions of Hogan's life from the time of his arrival in the United States from Norway until his travels to Dixie, Utah, in 1874. Hogan writes of his family's life in Illinois and Iowa and their journey westward to Utah, his experiences driving a government oxen team from Council Bluffs to Salt Lake City, his desire to joint the Mormon Battalion, and his involvement in several grist mills, including those at High Creek and Mink Creek. Hogan frequently details aspects of his daily life such as the raising of crops, the building of log cabins, and the types of clothing required for overland travel. He also describes his sorrow at the news of Joseph Smith's death, the debts acquired from his grist mills, his years of crops lost to grasshoppers, and the deaths of many of his children from illnesses. The microfilm also contains a portion of Hogan's original handwritten manuscript and a typescript portion of his biography/autobiography, written with his daughter Josephine Hogan Adair. All inquiries about this item should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Microfilm. San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library Photographic Dept., 1948. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Goudy Hogan was born in Tensprestijeld, Norway, on September 16, 1829. In 1837 he travled to the United States with his parents and four younger sisters, two of whom did not survive the journey. The family intially settled in Lasal County, Illinois, where Hogan was sent to work briefly on a neighbor's horse and cattle farm, where he suffered mistreatment and illness. In 1841 the family resettled in Iowa, in an area not far from Nauvoo, Illinois. In 1843 a Norwegian Mormon named Gudmon Hougus preached to the family, and they were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the same year. In 1846 the family heeded Brigham Young's call for the Mormons to enter the "wilderness," and traveled to Council Bluffs, where they remained for a year and a half. In 1848 they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, settling in Bountiful in 1849. That same year Hogan journeyed to California hoping to make his fortune in the gold rush, but returned home penniless in 1850. He was involved in multiple Mormon missions during his life, including building mail stations between Salt Lake City and the Missouri River in 1857, to Missouri to lead immigrants westward in 1862, working on the Utah Northern Railroad in 1871, and an extended mission to Norway from 1877-1880. He also helped settle Richmond, Cache County, Utah. He had three plural wives : Bergetta, Christiana, and Anna Nelson. Hogan died in Richmond, Utah, on January 30, 1898.
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