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Transcription of the Averett Family ledger book
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1303
Scope and Contents
Narrative of the history of members of the Averett family, including conversion, activities in Far West and Nauvoo, emigration westward, and settlement and activities in Utah Territory. The transcription was entrusted to P.T. Reilly.
Dates:
1972
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Don C. Conley oral histories for The Pioneer Chinese of Utah
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 7633
Scope and Contents
Collection includes twelve sound reels containing interviews of either descendants of early settlers in the Utah Territory, such as Wallace Clay, or Utah historians, like Juanita Brooks. The interviews are oral histories that were used as part of Conley's master's thesis, published in 1976. Each reel includes one person's story, with the exception of reel number nine, which contains two interviews. Dated 1974-1975.
Dates:
1974-1975
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph M. Ferguson letter to Nancy W. Ott
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7529
Abstract
The Joseph M. Ferguson letter consists of one letter, written 11 August 1849, from J. M. Ferguson to his sister, Nancy W. Ott. The letter concerns his sister's resettlement in Salt Lake City.
Dates:
1849 August 11
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Genealogical Library collection
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6879
Abstract
Collection includes two boxes containing personal histories.
Dates:
1825-1975
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
The handcart companies of 1856 and Arza Erastus Hinkley
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1770
Scope and Contents
Softbound typescript of an account of the rescue of the Martin Handcart Company, taken from journals and oral family histories.
Dates:
1980
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jesse M. Harmon family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1665
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of materials by and about the Jesse M. Harmon family. Of particular focus are Jesse M. Harmon, who was a prominent member of the community in Provo, Utah, and his father Appleton Milo Harmon, who was an original pioneer to Utah in 1847, and was known for constructing the odometer invented by William Clayton. Includes biographical and genealogical sketches of several family members, newspaper clippings, journal transcripts, family newsletters, and other documents used in...
Dates:
approximately 1868-1989
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
J. Taylor Hollist collection on Wilford C. Wood
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6760
Scope and Contents
Collection includes research done by J. Taylor Hollist on Wilford C. Wood. It includes photocopies and typed summaries of information he collected from the Wilford Wood Museum in Bountiful, Utah, and the LDS Church Archives in Salt Lake City, Utah. The information describes how the Church came to own many of its associated historical sites. The collection also includes a typewritten biography of Wilford C. Wood written by A. James Faulkner in 2014, and an index and endnotes to this book...
Dates:
1800-2015
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oliver Boardman Huntington papers
Collection — Box: 3
Identifier: MSS 162
Scope and Contents
Collection contains diaries, ephemera, and patriarchal blessings produced by Oliver Boardman Huntington and his son, Oliver B. Huntington. Items document the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Latter-day Saint exodus to the West, and the establishment and early development of Utah. Materials date from between 1843 and 1932.
Transcriptions of most items also available.
Dates:
1843-1932
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 1214
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, newspaper articles, reports, manuscripts, oral histories, and other material concerning the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, mostly from 1940-2005. Collection includes administrative files, history of the Primary and Relief Society organizations within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, social services and women in the church. The records concerning the Primary and Relief Society organizations document the beginning of those...
Dates:
1880-2005
Jacob Peart letters and diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3814
Scope and Contents
Contains the typed and transcribed work of Dorothy Jane Larson Bryson, as well as copies of the original diaries of Jacob Peart. Also includes photographs of various people related to the diaries.
Dates:
1801-1874
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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