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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
John L. Smith personal and family papers, 1792-1950
Series — Box 5: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232563210], Folder: 1-3
Identifier: MSS 680 Series 2
Scope and Contents
Contains priesthood blessing transcripts, legal documents, articles, letters, and other Smith family papers, dated 1792 to 1950.
Dates:
1792-1950
Brigham Young, William Wines Phelps and Willard Richards petition to Congress
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233292884]
Identifier: Vault MSS 726
Scope and Contents
Handwritten petition to the Congress of the United States for an appropriation of sixty-thousand dollars for the erection of a territorial prison in Utah. The item is signed by W. W. Phelps, Willard Richards, and Brigham Young. The petition states that the prison is needed because of "multiplied crimes and offenses which demand the retribution of imprisonment."
Dates:
1852
John L. Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 680
Scope and Contents
Contains seven journals of John Lyman Smith, and other autobiographical manuscripts, as wells as a bound typescript volume of an autobiography/journal. The journals include accounts of persecutions in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, pioneering in Utah, Lyman's two missions to Europe, and his service as president of the Swiss-Italian and the Swiss-Italian-German missions. There is also a contemporary account of the cricket-and-seagull episode in Salt Lake in 1848, Lyman's service as a member of...
Dates:
1792-1950; Majority of material found within 1846-1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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John L. Smith papers
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