Ezra T. Benson (1811–1869)
Miscellaneous Sources

• Nelson Slater, comp., Fruits of Mormonism: or a Fair and Candid Statement of Facts Illustrative of Mormon Principles, Mormon Policy, and Mormon Character, by More Than Forty Eye-Witnesses (Coloma, Cal.: Harmon & Springer, 1851), 30–37; notes that Ezra’s house in Great Salt Lake City was across from the Council House and that emigrants frequently tramped through his garden. Note that this is an anti-Mormon work that makes some harsh judgments of Ezra and other Mormons, many of them ridiculously overblown. (The thesis of the book is that the federal government should send an army to suppress the Mormons.)
• S. N. Carvalho 1854 Contacts with Ezra T. Benson, excerpts from Carvalho’s Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Col. Fremont's Last Expedition across the Rocky Mountains (1856). Carvalho, an artist with the expedition, stayed in Ezra’s house and heard him preach.  Transcript from http://www.jewish-history.com/WildWest/carvalho/carval24.html.
• Ezra T. Benson’s House, described in John Hyde, Jun., Mormonism: Its Leaders and Designs, New York: W. P. Fetridge & Company, 1857, pp. 33–34; another glimpse of Ezra’s house.
• The Benson Grist Mill, a website regarding Ezra’s mill in Tooele County, built in about 1854, which became a landmark and still stands

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