Microfilm of an autobiography and diary kept by John Clark Dowdle and identified as Nampa, Idaho. The autobiography begins in approximately 1845, and in a mix of reminiscences and diary entries describes Dowdle's family background, traveling overland in 1852, an 1864 trip to California, his mission to aid emigrants traveling overland from Missouri in 1866, and his daily activities in Utah, including school supervision in and around Logan and Willard, through 1894. 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. 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. John Clark Dowdle (1836-1913) was born in Franklin County, Alabama. In 1843 his family moved to Mississippi and his parents were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1844. The family moved to Council Bluffs in 1846 and Dowdle was baptized in 1848. That same year they moved to Little Pigeon in Pottawattamie County. In 1852 they crossed the plains to Utah, arriving in Provo in 1853. Dowdle, who was actively involved in local schools, later lived in Echo Canyon, Cache County, Lewiston Ward, and Willard City. He died in Logan, Utah, in 1913.
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