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Ann Gordge Lee autobiography
File — Box: 150
Identifier: MSS SC 1706
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography. Ann Lee tells about her family's conversion to Mormonism in Australia, their emigration to Utah, and her life as a Mormon woman in southern Utah. She gives details of the brutal activities of Mormon leaders including those of John D. Lee, her husband. She converted to Catholicism later in her life. While the work makes references to historical events, the researcher is cautioned that most of the work seems to be pure fiction.
Dates:
approximately 1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ann Gordge Lee autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 5857
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten, incomplete version of Lee's autobiography. Ann Lee tells about her family's conversion to Mormonism in Australia, their emigration to Utah, and her life as a Mormon woman in southern Utah. She gives details of the brutal activities of Mormon leaders including those of John D. Lee, her husband. She converted to Catholicism later in her life. While the work makes references to historical events, the researcher is cautioned that much of the work seems to be pure...
Dates:
1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Letter from John
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2472
Scope and Contents
Handwritten letter dated 10 Jan. 1858 and signed with "John." The item was addressed to "Ezekiel & Ellison" and written in Calaveras County, California. John writes about his life in California. "It is a lovely climate ... pass the remainder of my days away out here among the mountains of California with a good mining claim." He comments on the Mormons and their difficulties with the federal government. "I had thought somewhat of joining the Mormons. ... What is your opinion of this...
Dates:
1858 January 10
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Life history of Albert Douglas Dickson
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 752
Scope and Contents
Typescript of an autobiography. Dickson migrated to Utah in 1852. He first settled in American Fork but later moved to Kaysville. He participated in resisting the U.S. Army during the Utah War, mentions the Morrisite War, and moved to Richville, Utah, where he served as bishop of the Richville Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Also included are poems dedicated to Dickson and some anecdotes on his life.
Dates:
1892-1922
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Life of Samuel Rowley
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2764
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography. Rowley writes about his conversion to the Mormon Church, his migration to Utah with the Willie handcart company in 1856, and his life in Parowan and San Juan County, Utah.
Dates:
approximately 1901
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Life of William Wells Brady
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1581
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography of William Wells Brady. Brady was born in Fairview, Utah and moved to a number of locations to pursue his teaching career.
Dates:
1959
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Life sketch of A. Jay
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1553
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography, a newsclipping about Aaron Johnson Sr. (1806-1877), a handwritten copy of the senior Johnson's biography by his daughter, Marilla Lucretia Johnson Miller, and handwritten copies of correspondence on the Johnson family genealogy. This correspondence consists of letters from Stephen Johnson, brother of Aaron Johnson Sr., and also from Frank L. Johnson and W.E. Johnson, distant cousins of Aaron Johnson Jr. All items are photocopies.
Dates:
1926
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Life stories of John Alma Gilbert and wife, Geneva Frost Gilbert
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2231
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of typewritten and handwritten family histories, certificates, correspondence, and genealogical group sheets. The items relate to the families of John Alma and Geneva Frost Gilbert. Also included are histories and genealogies of the Gilbert and Frost families.
Dates:
1921-1984
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
List of tithing prices, weights and measures
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 104
Abstract
The folder contains a photograph and negative of a printed list. The item presents prices for produce, cattle, and sheep to be used in calculating the proper amount of tithing to be paid by members of the Mormon Church in 1883.
Dates:
1883
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Wandle Mace autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 786
Scope and Contents
Contains the handwritten autobiography of Wandle Mace. Account includes information about Mace's youth in New York City; joining the Mormon Church in the 1830s; moving to Illinois; helping build the Nauvoo Temple; service in the Nauvoo Legion; and, fighting in the Battle of Nauvoo in 1846. Also includes accounts of living in Iowa for over a decade prior to making their way west to Utah; traveling to Utah in a wagon train in 1859; moving to Southern Utah and settling in Kanab; and all major...
Dates:
1890
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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