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Samuel Bateman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 128
Scope and Contents Contains materials documenting Samuel Bateman's personal and family life. Included are some of Bateman's handwritten diaries for the years 1886-1888, 1899-1901, and 1901-1909. Also included are typescripts, microfilm, and scanned copies of these diaries, and typescripts of some correspondence to and from Samuel Bateman, dated 1868-1886. His correspondence discusses guarding John Taylor and his friendship with Wilford Woodruff, who were both Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
Dates: 1868-2016

Biographies

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1592
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typewritten biographies of Henry Bailey Jacobs and Zina Diantha Huntington Young, along with photocopies of typed and handwritten letters. The items, which relate to family matters and marriage relationships, include a letter from the LDS Historical Department regarding the marriages of Zina to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and a letter from the U.S. Customs Court in New York denying the existence of any records relating to a divorce between Henry and Zina.

Dates: 1844-1976

Biography : Kezia Keys Durrant

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2531
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Kezia Keys was born in 1844 in England. Her family later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1866 and settled in American Fork. She became the third wife of John Durrant in 1867, and she died in 1917.

Dates: 1940

A biography of Alexander Williams

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 459
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography. The year of the composition of the item is unknown. Kimball writes that Williams was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1847, had encounters with the Ute Indians, lived as a polygamist, and converted to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Dates: 1950

Biography of Ebenezer Hunter

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2450
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Ebenezer Hunter was born in Scotland in 1831. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He migrated to Utah in 1863 and settled in American Fork. He married Agnes Martin, Martha Alice Parker, and Martha Hannas Booth. The biography presents the name and birth date of the children by each marriage. Ebenezer died in 1908.

Dates: approximately 1935

Biography of Nathan Staker

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2681
Scope and Contents

Two typewritten biographies of Nathan Staker with photocopies of the same items. Sanderson wrote the biography of Staker with William Marchant Staker and Sarah Ellis Halley Pearson. The authors are grandchildren of Nathan Staker. Also included is a "History of Nathan Staker." Staker was from Canada. He joined the Mormon Church, migrated to Utah in 1852, married two women, and was a farmer in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

Dates: 1955

Biography of Samuel Kendall Gifford, pioneer of 11 September 1850

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2846
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Samuel Kendall Gifford was born in New York in 1821 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-days Saints. He migrated to Utah in 1850, settled in Washington County, Utah, had four wives, and died in 1907.

Dates: 1955

Biography of William Rufus Rogers Stowell

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 506
Abstract

Includes typewritten and handwritten biographies of William Rufus Rogers Stowell. Also included are typed excerpts from the biography and photocopies of an account of Stowell's death handwritten by his grandson, Earl Stowell. William Stowell was a convert to the Mormon Church. He lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1852, served in the Utah Militia during the Utah Expedition, served on missions for the Mormon Church, and went to Mexico to avoid prosecution for polygamy.

Dates: approximately 1893-1950

Biography : Elijah Bourne, native pioneer

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2523
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Elijah was born in 1851 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and he married mary Ann Able in 1871 and Rosa Abel in 1880. He served time in prison for polygamy and died in 1890. He lived in American Fork, Utah, his entire life.

Dates: 1940

A brief history of the life of Frederick Weight by himself

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3200
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript . Weight wrote about his early life in England and his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He migrated to the United States in 1849 and came to Utah in 1851. He settled first in Salt Lake City, Utah, where his wife died in child birth. Weight married Mary Milnes. He wrote about grasshopper troubles in 1854 and about his move to Springville, Utah, in 1856. He worked as a plasterer and a general laborer and faced...
Dates: Approximately 1895

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 6
Redd, Lemuel Hardison, 1836-1910 2
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 2
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Butler, Susan Elizabeth Redd, 1880-1977 1
Bywater, James 1
Cannon, Oa J. 1
Carter, William, 1821-1896 1
Chamberlain, Jonathan M. (Jonathan Mack), 1928- 1
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Clark, Ann Elizabeth Waldron 1
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Cox family 1
Cox, Cordelia Morley, 1823- 1
Dalley, Julius Wolley 1
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Day, Abraham, 1817-1900 1
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Dunkley, Laura King 1
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Durham, Thomas, 1828-1909 1
Durrant, Kezia Keys 1
Edward Martin Emigrating Company 1
Felshaw, William, 1800-1867 1
Forman, John 1
Forman, William 1
Gifford, Samuel K. (Samuel Kendall), 1821-1907 1
Grant, Elizabeth Williams 1
Hulet, Catherine Stoker 1
Hulet, Sylvanus Cyrus 1
Hunter, Ebenezer, 1831-1908 1
Huntington, Oliver Boardman, 1823-1907 1
Jackman, Levi, 1797-1876 1
Jacobs, Henry Bailey, 1817-1886 1
Jensen, Naomi Asay Anderson (1898-1987) 1
Johnson, Annie Carter 1
Johnson, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1905 1
Jones, Edith Boley, 1892-1973 1
Jones, Eliza Newman 1
Jones, Mary Jones 1
Jones, Sarah Davis 1
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Kimball, Croxier, 1879-1966 1
King, Robert Edison 1
Kirkham, Avery J. 1
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Kirkham, Denzil W. 1
Kirkham, George, 1852-1923 1
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Kirkham, Oliver G. 1
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Kirkham, Thomas F. 1
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Lambert, Mary Lovisa Hovey 1
Luebke, Beryl 1
Madsen, Peter, 1824-1911 1
Maeser, Karl G. 1
Marshall, Mary Grant 1
Matheson, Simon A., 1867-1947 1
McAllister, John Daniel Thompson, 1827-1910 1
McAllister, William James Frazier 1
McNeill, Sophia Crooks 1
Meeks, Nancy Jane McCleve, 1840-1933 1
Nash, Isaac Bartlett 1
Oliver, James A. (James Albert), 1861-1941 1
Parkinson, Ellen Elvira Nash 1
Pearson, Sarah Ellis Halley 1
Poole, Mary Cramer, 1790-1881 1
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Prows, William Cook, 1827-1894 1
Purnell, Lydia Susanna Goaslind, 1859-1942 1
Redd family 1
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1
Richardson, S. C. (Sullivan Calvin), 1861- 1
Robinson, Joseph Eldreidge, 1867- 1
Russon family 1
Sager, Bertha N. 1
Sanderson, Dora Day 1
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1
Smith family 1
Smith, Ada A. D. 1
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