Harry and Polly Tovey left England when Harry was just eight years old. He crossed the plains mostly in bare feet but found some boots on a dead soldier. Hannah Holbrook taught him to read, he went at it with everything he had science philosophyeverything the scriptures. Once he learned how to read you would have earned a master's degree in any university according to his biographer. The family moved back to Utah after Brigham Young heard about them.

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