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James Cragun papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 9118
Content Description

Contains papers related to James Cragun, including letters, financial documents, legal documents, church documents, and ephemera from Indiana and Utah. Includes content related to his years as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a Utah pioneer, primarily from a financial perspective. Dated 1843-1868.

Dates: 1843-1868

George Teasdale journal

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3093
Scope and Contents The central item in the collection is the diary of George Teasdale, kept from 1 January 1861 to 26 December 1861. The journal covers the conclusion of his time presiding over the Scottish mission, his journey to Zion, and his arrival in Salt Lake. Also included are a transcription of the George Teasdale diary; a letter dated Lima, Illinois, 19 March 1842, from William Wright to William Laurie in Burlington County, New Jersey, recounting the occurrence of a "most fatle disease" in his...
Dates: 1861

Niels H. Nielsen donation to Perpetual Emigrating Fund

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 9065
Scope and Contents

A list of twenty Danish members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the amount they were in debt to Niels Hans Nielsen, totaling $1,741.75. Nielsen authorized the transfer of these debts owed him to Brigham Young as a donation to the Perpetual Emigration (or Emigrating) Fund. Signed by Nielsen and two witnesses at Brigham City, Utah, on April 30, 1860.

Dates: 1860 April 30

Jean Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce papers

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8768
Scope and Contents

Contains digital copies of papers related to Jean (Jane) Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce. Includes marriage and other legal documents for her progenitors and children, letters, receipt for her burial plot, and her original handwritten diaries from 1851 and 1878. The 1851 diary documents Jean (Jane) Rio's journey from England to America to join the Latter-day Saints in Utah, including her trials crossing the ocean by ship and the plains. Dated 1780-1878.

Dates: 1780-1878

John L. Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 680
Scope and Contents Contains seven journals of John Lyman Smith, and other autobiographical manuscripts, as wells as a bound typescript volume of an autobiography/journal. The journals include accounts of persecutions in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, pioneering in Utah, Lyman's two missions to Europe, and his service as president of the Swiss-Italian and the Swiss-Italian-German missions. There is also a contemporary account of the cricket-and-seagull episode in Salt Lake in 1848, Lyman's service as a member of...
Dates: 1792-1950; Majority of material found within 1846-1900

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Bunker, Jeffery N. 1
Cragun, James, 1814-1887 1
Nielsen, Niels H. (Niels Hans), 1816-1893 1
Pearce, Jean Rio Griffiths Baker, 1810-1883 1