Microfilm of a typescript of Sarah Frances Harris Cutler's autobiography, written in 1941. Sarah includes notes on genealogy, childhood reminiscences, her parents' experiences with persecution against Mormons in Illinois and Missouri and her father's service with the Mormon Battalion, her family's travels in California and Utah, her marriage and the births of her children, her trip to the dedication of the Salt Lake City Temple in 1893, her husband's businesses and their moves to the Big Horn Basin and Texas, her husband's death in 1934, her visits to California to visit her children, her life in Salt Lake City after 1934, and her grandchildren's military enlistments during World War II. The autobiography (frames 1-7) is on the same reel as MSS MFILM 132 and MSS MFILM 133. 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. Sarah Frances Harris Cutler (1862-1952) was born in Washington County, Utah. Her family later lived in Glendale from 1872. In 1883 Sarah married Royal James Cutler, Jr. and the couple owned a sheep ranch north of Glendale. In 1908 they moved to the Big Horn Basin to raise cattle, and in 1924 settled in Texas. Following Royal's death in 1934 Sarah returned to Utah and died in Salt Lake City in 1952.
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