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Andrew Jackson Allen autobiography and diary

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3213
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript of an autobiography and diary. Allen writes about his youth in Kentucky and move to Missouri after he joined the Mormon Church. He later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and joined the Mormon exodus to Utah in 1847. He tells about the hardships of early settlement in Salt Lake City, Utah. His diary starts in 1857. It has many gaps and entries were often months apart. He writes about the "Utah War;" his work on the railroad in 1868 and 1869; his...
Dates: 1857-1884

Autobiography and poems of George Washington Johnson

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 189
Scope and Contents

Collection includes handwritten autobiography, patriarchal blessings, poems, and letters created by Johnson. Also included is a transcription of those materials by his great-great granddaughter. Materials date 1893 and 2000.

Dates: 1893-2000

Aaron Bliss letters

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2221
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters addressed to Samuel Moore, a Mormon living in Iowa and Nauvoo, Illinois. The items were sent from Missouri and from Louisiana. Bliss writes of family and personal matters. He asks about how the Mormons are doing and expresses a desire to visit Moore in Nauvoo.

Dates: 1839-1845

Book of remembrance of the Quayle family

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1329
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typewritten genealogical charts, photographs, and chronology of the Quayle family. The document details the history of John Quayle: his life on the Isle of Man, conversion to Mormonism, emigration to New York in 1841, Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1846, and Salt Lake City, Utah in 1847. The history continues through Quayle's death in 1892. Genealogical charts of the family are current through 1985.

Dates: 1985

H. H. Cole letter

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1830
Scope and Contents

Typescript and photocopy of a handwritten letter. The item is written to Cole's father. Cole tells about the Mormon expulsion from Nauvoo, Illinois and about personal family matters.

Dates: 1846

Coray family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1422
Scope and Contents

Contents includes correspondence, journals, autobiographical and biographical sketches, pertaining to the lives of Howard Coray his wife Martha Jane Knowlton Coray and members of the Coray family. Contents deal with the Coray family’s dealing with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, their family history, and their finances.

Dates: 1843-1965

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

Mary Field Garner autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1141
Scope and Contents

Typewritten excerpts from an autobiography. Garner writes about her conversion to Mormonism, her life in Nauvoo, Illinois, her memories of Joseph Smith (1805-1844) and the "mantle" of the prophet falling on Brigham Young (1801-1877), her journey to Utah, and her life in Slaterville, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1880

Hudson family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1429
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diaries, legal documents, newspaper clippings, obituaries, and memorabilia. The materials relate to the lives, finances, and activities of the Hudson family largely in Nauvoo, Illinois, Ohio, and nearby states.

Dates: 1845-1973

Elias Hutchings autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2470
Scope and Contents

Handwritten autobiography and photocopies of the item. Hutchings was born in New Hampshire and lived later in Vermont, New York, Ohio, Iowa, and Illinois. He was baptized a member of the Mormon Church in 1830, participated in the "Zion's Camp" march of 1834, served on a mission to New York and Pennsylvania, and personally knew Joseph Smith (1805-1844), first president of the Mormon Church. Hutchings died in 1845 in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Dates: circa 1842

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Allen, Andrew Jackson, 1818-1884 1
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