John R. Winder (1821-1910) held various positions within the LDS Church, including Second Counselor to the Presiding Bishop in 1887, and First Counselor in the First Presidency to Joseph F. Smith 1901 to 1910. He was married to Ellen Walters and had ten children.
The John R. Winder diary (1857-1858) contains entries from November 1857 to April 1858. The first few pages of the diary have been cut out and may have dated back two months earlier to September 1857, the same month that the Mountain Meadows Massacre occurred. The last few pages have also been cut out.
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Purchased from Ken Sanders in 2003.
Processed by Jennifer Sessions in 2006.
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