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William Dearborn Brown journal
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7819
Scope and Contents
Journal by Brown writing about his ancestors, family history, and his own personal history. Materials also include a digital record of the journals. Entries date from around 1860.
Dates:
approximately 1860
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William McKay and family ship tickets
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 615
Scope and Contents
Circular which confirms reservations and explains procedures for William McKay and his family's passage on the ship Thornton from Liverpool, England to New York. Includes a list of McKay family's names and ages.
Dates:
1856
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Davis family biographies
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 583
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography centering around Davis' ancestry, missions and LDS Church callings and biographical sketch of his wife Mary. Included are patriarchal blessings, temple and genealogical data, his testimony, and a letter to his grandmother. Also included are extracts from the "History of the British Mission" and the Millennial Star and a biographical sketch of the Davises by a son, Elisha Jr. The collection also contains genealogical data compiled by Jennie Davis Oliver on the...
Dates:
undated
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Early pioneer history
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1593
Scope and Contents
Typewritten history of James Allred and his family, early converts to the Mormon Church and pioneers who established settlements in Manti and Ephraim, Utah.
Dates:
approximately 1905
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Esaias Edwards autobiography and diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 184
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography and diary. The account is retrospective until 1856. Edwards writes extensively about his conversion to the Mormon Church in 1839, life at Nauvoo, Illinois, and the death of two of his wives. There is a lengthy discussion in the opening pages of the diary about astronomy and a family cooperative city, "Edwardsville," which he hoped to build. Edwards made the overland journey from Iowa to Salt Lake City in 1848 by ox team and writes briefly about the scarcity of feed...
Dates:
1856-1882
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Mary Lois Walker Morris autobiography
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1566
Scope and Contents
Materials include photocopies of the typewritten manuscript of Mary Lois Walker Morris's autobiography. The autobiography details events in Mary's life and the life of her family. It provides insight into religion and family life. It also gives information about Quakers in England, conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, emmigration, and polygamy in Utah. Includes an additional transcription made from the typewritten manuscript. Appears to have been written between...
Dates:
approximately 1895-1908
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James Pollock Park
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1652
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biography. The item describes Park's conversion to the Mormon faith, his various travels, and his final stay in Utah.
Dates:
1987
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young Perkins biography and journal
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1984
Scope and Contents
Handwritten biography and journal. The biography is about Brigham's father, Jesse Nelson Perkins (1819-1883). Jesse was a Mormon missionary and pioneer who was active in civic and in Mormon Church affairs. He first settled in Davis County, Utah and later moved to Taylor, Arizona in 1877 with Brigham. Brigham's journal tells about his life in Taylor, Arizona.
Dates:
1927-1929
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Diana E. Smoot autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1587
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography of Diana Eldredge Smoot which describes the trek of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Utah in 1847 in some detail.
Dates:
1912
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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