Microfilm of typescript copies of Roanna Naegle Lunt's biographical sketches of her parents, John Conrad Naegle and Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle. The sketch of John Conrad Naegle recounts his running away from home to join the Mormons in Nauvoo his travels with the 1846 company to Utah his time in the Mormon Battalion his experience at Sutter's Mill his decision to go to San Francisco to buy new shoes before departing for Utah, which led to him becoming an extensive landowner and agriculturalist in the San Jose Valley his 1853 trip by boat through the Isthmus of Panama to New York City and overland to Indiana his return overland journey to Utah with his wife, parents, and younger brother (his parents and brother never joined the Mormon church) his land interests in California attacks by Indians near Lehi his funding of George Q. Cannon's printing of the Book of Mormon in Hawaiian in 1855 his move to Washington, Utah, to be in charge of the wine industry and cotton growing his 1873 mission to Germany and Switzerland (his son George C. Naegle became president of the German mission in 1895) his flight to Mexico to avoid polygamy charges and his purchase of 108,000 acres of land in Sonora in partnership with "Parson"Williams. The sketch of Rosanna Zimmerman Naegle (b.1841) describes her genealogy, including references to her grandfather Lawrence Hoke her father George Gottlieb Zimmerman's decision to join the Mormons and move to Nauvoo in 1844 the family's overland journey to Utah with Henry Walton's company in 1851 and personal reflections of Roanna's family and character. On the same reel (frames 54-63) as MSS MFILM 00239 (item 1) and MSS MFILM 00239 (item 3). 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. 1951. 1 microfilm reel 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. John Conrad Naegle (1825-1899), a Mormon convert and wealthy California land owner, was born in Bavaria. At age seven he immigrated with his family to Indiana, and at nineteen he ran away from home to join the Mormons in Nauvoo. He traveled to Utah with the first company of Mormon pioneers in 1846 and joined Company A of the Mormon Battalion under Jefferson Hunt. Following his military service he went to Sutter's Mill, and was in the area when gold was first discovered in January 1848. He purchased a large tract of land in the San Jose Valley, and lived in both California and Utah until 1856, when he sold his investments in California and settled permanently in Lehi. In 1873 he served on a mission to Germany and Switzerland. In 1889 he fled to Mexico to avoid polygamy charges, and died in Sonora in 1899.
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