Microfilm of nine diary volumes kept by Allen Frost between 1874 and 1901. The first volumes begins as an autobiography, kept while Frost was living at the United Order at Mt. Carmel in Long Valley in 1874. He describes his childhood in England, his journey to New York to live with an uncle, his work in machine shops in New York and as a farmer in Maine, his frequent illnesses, his conversion to Mormonism, his traveling primarily by steamer and rail through New York and Pennsylvania and on to Missouri on his way to Utah in 1861, and his settlement in Bountiful. The volume includes diary entries from 1874-1878 that focus on his life at the United Order at Mt. Carmel and also contains a list of names officiated for in the St. George Temple (January 15, 1878), some genealogy, account notes, a property appraisal, and various notes on the United Order. The diaries dated 1878-1890 primarily recount Frost's daily activities and labors in and around the United Order, St. George, Orderville, and Round Valley, as well as his travels through Utah and Arizona. The diary dated 1890-1893 commences when Frost had moved to Snowflake, Arizona, and the remaining volumes trace his experiences there through his death in 1901. The diary volumes are arranged on three reels of microfilm as follows: Reel 1 "“ autobiography/diary dated 1874-1878 and diary volumes dated 1878-1880 and 1880-1882 Reel 2 "“ diary volumes dated 1883-1893 Reel 3 "“ diary volumes dated 1893-1901. 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. 3 microfilm reels : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Allen Frost (1838-1901) was born in London, England. After the death of his father in 1845 he was sent to live with his grandmother, and subsequently to the British Orphan Asylum in Clapham. At the age of fourteen he went to live with a maternal uncle in New York. Confined to bed with an illness in 1860, he began to read works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (his uncle was a Mormon) and was baptized later that year. He began traveling to Utah with his uncle's family in 1861 and settled in Bountiful. He worked primarily in lumbering and freighting, served on an Indian mission to Sanpete in 1866, lived in Kanab from 1870, and joined the United Order at Mt. Carmel in 1874. In around 1890 Frost moved to Snowflake, Arizona. He died in Woodruff, Arizona, in 1901.
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