Mormon Midwife

Mormon Midwife

by Sessions, Patty Bartlett

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Patty Session's 1847 Mormon Trail diary has been widely quoted and excerpted, but her complete diaries chronicling the first decades of Mormon settlement at Salt Lake City have never before been published. They provide a detailed record of early Mormon community life from Illinois to Utah through the eyes of Mormondom's most famous midwife. They also recount her important role in women's social networks and her contributions to community health and Utah's economy, to pioneer education and horti…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Mormon Midwife / edited by Donna Toland Smart.

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Patty Session's 1847 Mormon Trail diary has been widely quoted and excerpted, but her complete diaries chronicling the first decades of Mormon settlement at Salt Lake City have never before been published. They provide a detailed record of early Mormon community life from Illinois to Utah through the eyes of Mormondom's most famous midwife. They also recount her important role in women's social networks and her contributions to community health and Utah's economy, to pioneer education and horticulture. Patty Sessions assisted at the births of hundreds of early Mormons and first.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©1997.

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Description based upon print version of record.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (473 p.).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780874212747, 087421274X, 9786613077929, 6613077925, 1283077922, 9781283077927, 0585030243, 9780585030241, 0874213274, 9780874213270
  • oclc:on1162406042
  • LC Classification:F593.S45
  • Dewey Decimal:978/.02/092

Table of Contents

Foreword / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher; Preface; Introduction; Diary One, 1846-1848; Diary Two, 1849-1850; Diary Three, 1851-1852; Diary Four, 1853-1855; Diary Five, 1856-1862; Diary Six, 1862-1880; Diary Seven, 1884-1888; Epilogue; Appendix One: Account Book; Appendix Two: Children's Families; Appendix Three: Braiding School Minutes; Bibliography; Index

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Biographies Diaries Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) Illinois -- Nauvoo midwives Midwives -- Diaries. -- West (U.S.) Mormon women Mormon women -- Diaries. -- West (U.S.) Nauvoo (Ill.) -- Biography Sessions, Patty Bartlett West United States Women pioneers Women pioneers -- Diaries. -- West (U.S…

Writers

Sessions, Patty Bartlett Smart, Donna Toland

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