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Biography Joseph Alston

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2509
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Joseph Alston was born in 1821 in England, and he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1839. He migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he knew Joseph Smith, the first president of the Mormon Church. He migrated to Utah probably in 1850 and died in 1891.

Dates: 1940

Biography : Lois Russell Harrington

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2602
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Lois Russell Harrington was born in 1823 in Sparta, New York. She married Leonard Elsworth Harrington in 1840, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1841, moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842, migrated to Utah in 1847, and moved to American Fork in 1850. She died in 1902.

Dates: 1944

Biography of John Wood and wife, Rosanna Dishley Wood

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2574
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of typewritten biographies. John Wood was born in 1804 in England. Rosanna Dishley was born in 1811 also in England. They were probably married in 1838. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois. They came to Utah in 1851 where they settled in American Fork.

Dates: approximately 1940

Biography of John Wootton

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2575
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed biography. The item was written by Mrs. John H. Wootton, but her name is not given. John Wootton was born in 1842 in England. His parents were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-days Saints, and the brought him to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1843. They later came to Utah in 1849, and they settled in American Fork. John Wootton died in 1922.

Dates: approximately 1940

Biography of Joseph Grafton Hovey

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 215
Scope and Contents

Typescripts of material of Joseph Hovey, a Mormon convert in Illinois in 1839 and later a pioneer to Utah, compiled and written by his grandson, including a detailed journal written in the first person for the years 1839 to April 1854 and a brief journal concerning life in central Utah in 1855-1856. Also included is supplementary material taken from a journal of Joseph Hovey's wife, Lusannah.

Dates: 1812-1868, 1933

Biography of William Rufus Rogers Stowell

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 506
Abstract

Includes typewritten and handwritten biographies of William Rufus Rogers Stowell. Also included are typed excerpts from the biography and photocopies of an account of Stowell's death handwritten by his grandson, Earl Stowell. William Stowell was a convert to the Mormon Church. He lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1852, served in the Utah Militia during the Utah Expedition, served on missions for the Mormon Church, and went to Mexico to avoid prosecution for polygamy.

Dates: approximately 1893-1950

Aaron Bliss letters

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2221
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters addressed to Samuel Moore, a Mormon living in Iowa and Nauvoo, Illinois. The items were sent from Missouri and from Louisiana. Bliss writes of family and personal matters. He asks about how the Mormons are doing and expresses a desire to visit Moore in Nauvoo.

Dates: 1839-1845

Orley Dwight Bliss autobiography and diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 615
Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography and diary. Account is retrospective until 1864, when Bliss writes short daily entries about his journey from Salt Lake City to Nebraska by ox team to help gather the poor to Utah. On the return trip to Utah, Bliss describes weather conditions, daily camping locations and mileage, encounters with Indian tribes, and more than twenty deaths from cholera. Bliss immigrated to Utah at age 8 and participated in the Utah War. Several pages of family genealogy are included...
Dates: 1864-1865

Carl J. Blum ledger books

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1909
Scope and Contents

Leger books. The materials deal with purchases and other financial transactions in an unnamed store in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Dates: 1869-1945

Ida Blum collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1891
Abstract

The Ida Blum collection contains correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, speeches, genealogical information, and research notes.

Dates: 1804-1978

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Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History 188
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Immigration and American Expansion 68
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Letters 52
Autobiographies 51
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Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 2
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Latter Day Saint missionaries -- England -- History 2
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Names
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 51
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 24
Utah Expedition (1857-1858) 15
Illinois. Circuit Court (Hancock Co.) 7
Illinois. Militia. Nauvoo Legion 6
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Law, Wilson 6
Smith, Hyrum, 1800-1844 6
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 6
Icarian Community 5
Smith, Emma Hale 5
Wells, Daniel H. (Daniel Hanmer), 1814-1891 5
Foster, Robert D. 4
Jones, Edith Boley, 1892-1973 4
United States. Army. Mormon Battalion 4
Zion's Camp (Expedition) (1834) 4
Davis, Amos, Jr., 1811-1877 3
Illinois. Militia 3
Murdock, John, 1792-1871 3
Babbitt, Almon W. (Almon Whiting), 1813-1856 2
Backenstos, Jacob B. (Jacob Benjamin), 1811-1857 2
Bennett, John Cook, 1804-1867 2
Cabet, Etienne, 1788-1856 2
Carlin, Thomas, 1789-1852 2
Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) 2
Clayton, William, 1814-1879 2
Crosby, Jonathan 2
Duke, Jonathan Oldham, 1807-1868 2
Greenwood, William, 1822-1891 2
Hancock County (Ill.) 2
Hunter, Thomas J. 2
Johnson, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1905 2
Kimball, Hiram S., 1806-1863 2
Leany, William, 1815-1891 2
Mack, Temperance Bond, 1771-1850 2
Post, Warren, 1811-1875 2
Richards, Samuel W. (Samuel Whitney), 1824-1909 2
Richards, Willard, 1804-1854 2
Rigdon, Sidney, 1793-1876 2
Shelley, Sarah Ann Steele, 1863-1953 2
Sloan, James, 1792- 2
Smith, Joseph, III, 1832-1914 2
Smith, William, 1811-1893 2
Strang, James Jesse, 1813-1856 2
Utah. Militia 2
Adams, Arza, 1804-1889 1
Adams, James, 1783-1843 1
Adams, William, 1822-1901 1
Allen, Andrew Jackson, 1818-1884 1
Alley family 1
Alley, George, 1792-1859 1
Alley, Mary Symonds, 1796-1880 1
Alley, Stephen Webb 1
Allred family 1
Allred, James, 1784-1876 1
Allred, William Moore, 1819-1901 1
Alston, Joseph, 1821-1891 1
Alston, Louisa Grant 1
Babbitt, Loren, 1806-1883 1
Badger, Louisa Adeline Noble 1
Beamon, G. C. 1
Bedell, Edward A. 1
Bennett, Moana B. 1
Bennion, John E. 1
Bernhisel, John M. (John Milton), 1799-1881 1
Bidamon, Lewis C. (Lewis Crum), -1891 1
Bigler, Jacob G., 1813-1907 1
Bliss, Aaron Tyler, 1946- 1
Bliss, Orley Dwight, 1839-1930 1
Blum, Carl J. 1
Blum, Ida 1
Boggs, Lillburn W., 1792-1860 1
Boley, Barbara Hart, 1793- 1
Boley, Henry Hart 1
Boley, Henry, 1795- 1
Bonesteel, Lucy Wright 1
Bourne, John 1
Bowers, Daniel 1
Bradford family 1
Butler, John Lowe, 1808-1860 1
Cadwell, Edwin 1
Call, Anson Vasco, 1834-1867 1
Cannon, George, 1794-1844 1
Carter, E. V. (Elbert Victor), 1810- 1
Carter, Mary H. (Mary Hine) 1
Cazier, David 1
Cheney family 1
Cheney, Nathan, 1811-1856 1
Chipman, Martha Selinda Smith, 1836-1858 1
Chipman, Sadie 1
Chipman, Washburn 1
Colborn, Sarah Bowers 1
Colborn, Thomas 1
Cole, H. H., active 1846 1
Coray family 1
Coray, Howard, 1817-1908 1
Coray, Howard, 1842-1928 1
Coray, Martha, 1821 or 1822-1881 1
Council of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 1
Crooks, Agnes Gillispie 1
Crooks, Thomas 1
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