Microfilm of Harvey Coe Hullinger's autobiography and family record, kept sometime after 1923. Hullinger provides brief accounts of his family history, childhood, travels to Utah, and Civil War service. He specifically writes about his work on the Salt Lake Temple and his medical practice during the 1917-1918 influenza crisis. Typed pages in the back of the volume focus on the animosity between him and members of the Mormon Church, and included is a statement by Hullinger that he never had "one word of encouragement"in his medical practice from Church Presidents Bannion, Smart, or Coulton (1923) a typed list of church buildings he helped construct and record of his other works in the Church (1909) a typed account of his temporary excommunication from the Mormon Church over issues regarding a woman he had allowed to stay with his family (1909) and a prayer for his 90th birthday (1913). All inquiries about this item should be addressed 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. Dr. Harvey Coe Hullinger (1824-1925) was born in Champaign County, Ohio. In 1833 his family moved to Illinois, and Hullinger was orphaned as a teenager. After the death of his parents he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1842. He received his degree from a medical college in Columbus, Ohio, in 1852. He lived in Clinton County, Iowa, from 1853-1859, when he started for Utah by way of Nebraska. Hullinger served as a medic in the Union Army during the Civil War and later set up his medical practice throughout Utah, including in Mill Creek, St. George, Uintah Couny, and Vernal. He practiced medicine continually from 1852 until his death in 1925 and at one point was known as the oldest practicing physician in the United States. He died in Vernal in 1925.
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