John Franklin Tolton Autobiographies (Ms 7)

University of Utah Marriott Library, Manuscripts Division

The John Franklin Tolton Autobiographies (1931) covers three generations, beginning with John Tolton and family, then his son, Edward, and his son, John Franklin. The account begins in 1842 when John and his children first contacted the Mormon missionaries in England and relates the family's religious conversion, immigration, and the ultimate rise of the third generation to a place of economic security and social prestige. John Franklin Tolton was born in Ephraim, Utah in 1861. He died in Beaver, Utah, on February 18, 1950. A register is available.