ERASTUS SNOW AND FAMILY FROM THEIR PERSONAL LETTERS
©2016 Donald R. Snow (snowd@math.byu.edu) of Provo and St. George, Utah
This page was last revised 2016-03-02.
  1. Notes and Erastus Snow letters posted on  http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html
  2. Powerpoint presentation about Erastus Snow and his family and the letter collection and some things we have learned about them
  3. Meet Erastus Snow
  4. Erastus Snow ==> Erastus Beman Snow ==> Eldon Stafford Snow ==> Donald Ray Snow
  5. My Dad, Eldon Stafford Snow, was in first graduating class of Dixie College, 1913
  6. Our Erastus Snow letter collection - several hundred letters total, preserved in libraries now; we have photocopies; have transcribed about 225 personal and family letters
  7. About Erastus Snow and his wives
  8. Transcribed by my family and posted on the Internet; searchable with Google; are still editing and adding information and identifying people and places; have several hundred more Church and business letters to transcribe
  9. Things letters preserve
  10. Excerpts from some of the letters
    1. 1856-05-31 - Artimesia (SLC) to Erastus (St Louis) - resigned to living alone since Erastus traveling until he dies
    2. 1851-06-24 - Erastus (Liverpool) to Artimesia (SLC) - talking via letters, takes 10 months to get answers
    3. 1885-07-19 - Erastus (Mexico City) to Elizabeth (StG) - keep all my letters since not writing a journal
    4. 1851-04-06 - Erastus (Copenhagen) to Artimesia (SLC) - pleasant visits with Joseph Smith in his dreams
    5. 1860-11-18 - Erastus (St Joseph, Missouri) to Elizabeth (SLC) - telegraph wires to go from Nebraska to SLC, if "Union don't burst up" [Civil War]
    6. 1886-10-11 - Erastus (Mexico City) to Edward H. Snow (on mission in Virginia) - about how Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon with Seer Stone
    7. 1868-01-25 - Erastus (SLC) to Elizabeth (StG) - shudders at thought of returning to StG like a "sore back horse at the sight of the saddle"
    8. 1851-04-06 - Erastus (Copenhagen) to Artimesia (SLC) - "the old cow did not eat up the grindstone"
    9. 1851-04-06 - Erastus (Copenhagen) to Minerva (SLC) - "keep the light side of the picture up"
    10. 1884-03-14 - Erastus (Milford) to (Elizabeth) - "busy as a ________ and happy as a ________ in _________"
    11. 1855-01-14 - Erastus (St. Louis) to Family (SLC) - offers bribes to get the kids to learn
    12. 1881-03-14 - Erastus (Colorado) to Elizabeth (StG) - hopes someone will teach Herbert how to write better
    13. 1887-02-11 - Erastus (Mexico) to Edward H. Snow (mission in Virginia) - about Julia spending too much
    14. 1884-07-21 - Erastus (SLC) to Elizabeth (StG) - Arthur has to get his homework done to be able to go to the ranch
    15. 1882-12-22 - Minerva (StG) to Erastus (Arizona) - about death of Artimesia
  11. Compiling and editing letter collections - find, scan, transcribe, edit, list of quotes, file naming, programs that help
  12. File naming in systematic form allows finding and showing in order
  13. Free programs to type, edit, search, and present -- EVERNOTE -- https://evernote.com/ ; EVERYTHING -- http://www.voidtools.com/ ; to search the ES Letter Collection online use Google (see top of my Class Notes pages); to search in text on your own computer use FREE COMMANDER -- http://freecommander.com/en/summary/
  14. Conclusions -- have only looked at a little of what's in the Erastus Snow letters; letter collections are good for family history