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Patience Loader Archer autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3238
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten autobiography. Patience tells about her early life in England and her conversion to the Mormon Church. She presents one of the best accounts from the Martin handcart company and goes into considerable detail on the ordeal. Patience tells about the rescue and the continuous efforts of the people in the ill-fated handcart company to survive. She also writes about her arrival in Salt Lake City, Utah, and about the efforts by Brigham Young,...
Dates:
1872
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Druce diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 950
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten diary. Druce was born in England; was apprenticed as a baker in London in the 1830s; moved to Manchester; joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1842; migrated to the United States in 1846; worked as an engraver in New York State; migrated to Utah in 1861; settled in Salt Lake City, Utah; and served on a mission for the Church in the Eastern States in 1876.
Dates:
1842-1876
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Eckersley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS FM 8
Abstract
Microfilmed diaries (1886-1958), correspondence, newsclippings, and ephemera (advertisements, programs, and a prohibition poster). Some letters include correspondence with Mormon leaders Francis M. Lyman, Heber J. Grant, and Charles W. Penrose. The diaries concern his missions for the Mormon Church in England, and life in Loa, Freemont, and Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dates:
1886-1958
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Athole Macmasters diaries and autogiography
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 160
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries with an autobiography. There are many gaps in the diary. Macmasters writes about his life in Scotland and England, his trek to Utah in 1854, and his work in a store in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dates:
1849-1886
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
History of William Theobald
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3120
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of William Theobald. Also included is an index to the item. Theobald was born in England in 1813 and worked on his father's farm until he was sixteen years old. He later became a carpenter and a wheelwright and served in the British navy from 1836 to 1840. He married Martha Lane in 1841, joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1848, and migrated to Utah in 1851. He worked as a police officer...
Dates:
approximately 1875
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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