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Ebenezer Beesley papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1745
Scope and Contents
Mormon hymn books, musical scores, newspaper clippings, a short autobiography, a biography, and letters. Also included is a photostat copy of a handwritten list of passangers on the William Tapscott in 1859. The Mormons on the ship later formed the George Rowley handcart company which emigrated to Utah in 1859. Also included is a typescript of a diary by an unnamed person describing the journey to Utah with the Rowley company. This is transcription from the Journal History of the Church...
Dates:
1863-1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Margaret Cunningham Binnall
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2761
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. This copy is very dark and difficult to read. Margaret Cunningham Binnall was born in 1845 in Scotland. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the ill-fated Willie handcart company. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1921.
Dates:
1958
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography : James Cunningham and Elizabeth Nicholson Cunningham, came to Utah in November 9, 1856
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2416
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography of James and Elizabeth Nicholson Cunningham. James Cunningham was born in 1801 in Scotland and died in American Fork, Utah, in 1879. Elizabeth Nicholson was born in 1805 in Scotland and died in American Fork, Utah, in 1890. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Willie handcart company. Included with the narrative is the detailed account of their ordeal in the Willie...
Dates:
approximately 1935
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography : Mary Stoddard Mott
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2549
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Stoddard was born in England in 1845 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1852. She migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Edward Ellsworth handcart company. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and married Stephen Mott in 1862. She died in 1916.
Dates:
approximately 1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Caroline Hansen Adams : came to Utah in 1861
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2508
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Caroline Hansen was born in Denmark in 1849, and her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They tried to migrate to Utah by handcart in 1857 but could not make the entire journey. They stayed near Council Bluffs, Iowa, for four years and came to Utah in 1861. She fixed meals for the second president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young, and later settled in American Fork. She married Jos. Adams and died in...
Dates:
1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of George Rowley and wife Ann Brown : pioneers of Thornhill, Yorkshire, England, he came to Utah in 1855 and again in 1859
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2493
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. George Rowley was born in 1827 in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1847. Ann Brown was born in 1828 in England and joined the same church in 1844. He came to Utah in 1855 but returned to England in 1857, going east with a handcart company. He returned to Utah in 1859 with his family and settled in American Fork. Ann died in 1905, and George died in 1908.
Dates:
1939
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Mary Bathgate Shelley
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2569
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Bathgate was born in 1798 in Scotland. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 in Dan McArthur's handcart company. She married James Boyonton Shelley in 1856 and lived in American Fork, Utah. She wrote poetry and died in 1884.
Dates:
approximately 1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Grace Mary Wrigley Cunningham
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2791
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Grace Mary Wrigley was born in England in 1842 and died in American Fork, Utah, in 1930. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, migrated to Utah in 1852, married George Cunningham in 1863, lived in American Fork, Utah, and had 13 children. James Cunningham was born in England in 1840 and migrated to Utah with the Willie handcart company in 1856. At one point, he helped bury 15 people in one grave...
Dates:
1955
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Elizabeth Williams Grant
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2796
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. This item was "narrated by her daughter, Mary Grant Marshall written by camp historian Laura Logie Timpson." Elizabeth Williams was born in Wales in 1838. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Bunker handcart company. Elizabeth married David Grant in 1856 and became his fourth wife. She had eight children and lived in American Fork, Utah. She later married Alex...
Dates:
1958
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Inger Mortensen Hansen
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2802
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Inger Mortensen Hansen was born in Denmark in 1826. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1861. He came by handcart to Utah and went to Genoa where he lived in a dugout on the side of a hill. He later settled in American Fork, Utah.
Dates:
1958
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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