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Thomas Chamberlain diaries

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 990
Scope and Contents

Three diaries (1875, 1880-1882, 1893-1896), genealogical group sheets of Chamberlain's families, and ten photocopied photographs of Chamberlain and his wives and children. The two earliest items are photocopies of holograph manuscripts while the third is a typescript.

Dates: 1875-1896

Charles Shuster Zane autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 707
Scope and Contents

Mimeographed copy of a typewritten autobiography. Zane writes about his early life as a student and as a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois. He tells about his personal acquaintance with Abraham Lincoln and about hearing Lincoln give formal speeches on several occasions. Zane was appointed a federal judge in 1884 for the territory of Utah and writes about presiding over a number of important cases relating to polygamy in Utah. He later practiced law in Utah.

Dates: 1899

A copy of the sketch of the life of David Cazier as written by himself dated Nephi, Utah

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 666
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a typewritten autobiography. Cazier was born in Ordham County, Kentucky. His family moved to Illinois in 1841 where he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1845. He later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1850. He settled at Nephi, Utah, in 1851 and later married polygamously. Cazier also writes about his family life.

Dates: 1913

Arthur B. Cort letter

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 106
Abstract

The folder contains a handwritten letter dated 5 May 1884 and addressed to Clara Jane Riding. Cort informs Riding that he would strike her name from the list of registered voters if she did not come to the court house and take the appropriate oath against the practice of "bigamy."

Dates: 1884

Cordelia Morley Cox collection of biographies

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1152
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of handwritten biographical sketches of family members. Cordelia Cox writes about Emeline Whiting Cox, Emma Peterson Cox, Jemima Losee Cox, Lydia Losee Cox, Frederick Walter Cox, and Isaac Morley. Also included is Cordelia Cox's testimony to the truthfullness of the Mormon faith. She also writes about her experiences as a plural wife of Frederick Cox.

Dates: approximately 1880

Benjamin C. Critchlow correspondence

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3267
Scope and Contents

The collection includes three letters written by Benjamin C. Critchlow between 1872 and 1887. The first is to his parents and dates from his mission; the second two were written to his wife Martha while he was hiding for polygamy.

Dates: 1872-1887

Thomas Waters Cropper autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 654
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography. Some of the item is in Cropper's own hand. The rest was dictated to his daughters. Cropper was born in Texas, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1856. One fourth of the original party turned back in 1853 when they heard of the Mormon doctrine of polygamy. He describes the immigrant group killed by Mormons at Mountain Meadows in 1857. Cropper lived in Fillmore, Utah, and later moved to Deseret, Utah. ...
Dates: 1926

Ebenezer Crouch autobiography

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 614
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography. Crouch was born in Tumbridge Wells, Kent, England; migrated to America in 1856; and came to Utah in 1859. Crouch tells about encounters with Ute Indians, describes Orrin Porter Rockwell, and writes about being married polygamously. He lived in numerous places in Utah and had several occupations.

Dates: 1823

Abraham Day III

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2680
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten biography of Abraham Day, III (1817-1900). Abraham Day was born in Vermont, joned the Mormon Church, moved to Montrose, Iowa near Nauvoo, Illinois, served in the Mormon Battalion 1846-1847, migrated to Utah, took a second wife, and lived in Springville and Mt. Pleasant, Utah, and served in the Black Hawk War. The date of the composition of this item is uncertain.

Dates: approximately 1930

Moses Franklin Farnsworth papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1678
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, record books, pension petitions, certificates, pamphlets, articles of incorporation, poems, blessings, poems, and miscellaneous items. The materials relate to Farnsworth's activities particulary in the Mormon Church. Included in the collection are letters from the fourth president of the Mormon Church, Willford Woodruff, patriarchal blessings, letters relating to Mormon polygamy, and a book recording the work done in the Manti Temple of the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1870-1900

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Certificates 3
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 18
Utah Expedition (1857-1858) 6
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 6
Utah. Militia 3
Brown, James S. (James Stephens), 1828-1902 2
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Dalley, Julius Wolley 2
Gallup, Luke William, 1822-1891 2
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901 2
Keeler, Eliza Shelton 2
Keeler, James 2
Lee, John D. (John Doyle), 1812-1877 2
Reynolds, George, 1842-1909 2
Russell, Samuel, 1835-1896 2
Solomon, William Henry, 1828-1913 2
Taylor, John, 1808-1887 2
United States. Army. Mormon Battalion 2
United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) 2
Urie, John, 1835-1921 2
Whitaker, John Mills, 1863-1960 2
Woodruff, Wilford, 1807-1898 2
Woolley, Edwin Dilworth, Jr., 1846-1920 2
Angell, Truman O. (Truman Osborn), 1810-1887 1
Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886 1
Badger, Carlos Ashby, 1878-1939 1
Badger, Rose Jenkins, 1877-1937 1
Baker family 1
Ballard, Margaret McNeil, 1846-1918 1
Bedell, Lucian 1
Bennion, John E. 1
Brimhall, Flora Robertson 1
Brimhall, George H. (George Henry), 1853-1932 1
Brooklyn (Ship : 1834-1856) 1
Butler, Susan Elizabeth Redd, 1880-1977 1
Butler, William, 1825-1905 1
Candland, David, 1819-1902 1
Cannon, Angus M. (Angus Munn) 1
Cannon, Johanna Christina Danielson 1
Cannon, John M. (John Mousley), 1865-1917 1
Cannon, Mina C. 1
Carter, William, 1821-1896 1
Cazier, David 1
Chamberlain, Thomas, 1854-1918 1
Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonites) 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. First Council of the Seventy 1
Church of Zion 1
Cort, Arthur B. 1
Cox family 1
Cox, Alvira, 1848-1913 1
Cox, Cordelia Morley, 1823- 1
Critchlow, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chamberlin), 1835-1924 1
Cropper, Thomas Waters 1
Crouch, Ebenezer 1
Day, Abraham, 1817-1900 1
Day, Eli Azariah 1
Farnsworth, Moses Franklin, 1834- 1
Forman, John 1
Forman, William 1
Grant, William, 1838-1916 1
Grether, Herman, 1856-1932 1
Hamblin, Jacob, 1819-1886 1
Hansen family 1
Hansen, Jens, 1837-1917 1
Harper, John Claiborne 1
Hayes, John H. (John Henry), 1853-1938 1
Hess, John W., 1824-1903 1
Higgins, Edward V., 1858- 1
Hyde, William Alonzo 1
Jenkins, John 1
Jensen, Alma L. 1
Jensen, Naomi Asay Anderson (1898-1987) 1
Jensen, Ole Anderson 1
Johnson, Annie Carter 1
Jones, Albert, 1839-1925 1
Jones, John Pidding, 1819-1890 1
Jorgensen, Mads, 1827-1905 1
Kelly, John J. 1
Kimball, Croxier, 1879-1966 1
Kirby, Thomas Wright 1
Larsen, Christian J. 1
Laurence, Harison 1
Laurence, Martha 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Love, Andrew 1
Lyman, Amasa M. (Amasa Mason), 1813-1877 1
Lyman, Eliza Maria Partridge, 1820-1886 1
Madsen, Peter, 1824-1911 1
Manti Temple (Manti, Utah) 1
Maughn, William 1
Meeks, Nancy Jane McCleve, 1840-1933 1
Merrill, Clarance, 1841-1919 1
Monk, Charles 1
Murdock, John, 1792-1871 1
Nash, Isaac Bartlett 1
Nielson, Emma Wartstill Mecham, 1858-1920 1
Nielson, Frihoff Godfred, 1851-1935 1
Nuttall, L. John (Leonard John), 1834-1905 1
Oleson, Lewis 1
Pace, William B., 1832-1907 1
Parkinson, Ellen Elvira Nash 1
Pearson, Sarah Ellis Halley 1
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