Microfilm of Joab Collier's honey record book, kept in and around Vernal and Washington, Utah, from April to August 1916. The notebook includes entires on the conditions of local hives and charts showing the number of bees found alive, dead, or "foul.";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., 1949. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Joab Collier (1855-1918) was born in Cheshire, England, the son of a coal miner and a cotton weaver. He worked in a wool factory as a child and immigrated with his widowed mother to Utah in 1870. In Utah Joab worked on the railroad, herded sheep, did agricultural work, and raised bees. He married Theodocia Keeler in 1877 and lived on a farm in Provo, Utah. Joab died in Vernal, Utah, in 1918.
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