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J. LaVar Bateman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2143
Abstract
Contains papers documenting BYU forum assembly speakers. Also includes outlines, correspondence, news clippings, teaching resource materials, copies of minutes, a few photographs, vita information on LaVar Bateman, and other papers. Also includes a short history of the BYU Emeritus Club, written by Ed Butterworth.
Dates:
approximately 1947-1999
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Battle with the Indians in pioneer days : Little Creek raid
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3049
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of a story of Indians stealing cattle and horses near Parowan, Utah, on 21 July 1867 during Utah's Black Hawk War. The attempt to take the cattle was thwarted, and the Indians were forced to retreat. The author of the item is unidentified. He writes that he was "nine or ten" at the time of the raid and that his uncle was Joseph Fish, a prominent militia leader in Parowan. The writer also states that he was the brother of Horace Calvin Smith.
Dates:
1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Margarito Bautista papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8426
Scope and Contents
Collection contains materials pertaining to the life of Margarito Bautista and his church La Plentitude del Reino de Dios. Includes his journals, his proselyting pamphlets, material from the third convention, material from the current La Plentitude del Reino de Dios church, pamphlets from the LDS church, journals from Alma de Olarte (his secretary), and a military handbook that was printed in 1920. Material from the current church includes meeting minutes. The people involved are from small...
Dates:
1920-1999
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interviews with Grant L. and Josephine Harris Bayles
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6717
Abstract
Oral history interviews with Grant L. and Josephine Harris Bayles on 7 and 11 July 1971. The interviews were conducted by Mary Risher and Louise Lyne for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program.
Dates:
1971
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jesse Fuller Bean papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 284
Scope and Contents
Holograph missionary diaries kept by Bean while serving in the Southern State Mission of the Latter-day Saint Church, including a missionary blessing; family history; account of coming to Utah in 1847; family genealogy records and certificates of ordination.
Dates:
1904-1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Rebecca Peterson Bean speech
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2273
Scope and Contents
Typewritten talk given in the fall of 1964 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Rebecca Bean lived in the Joseph Smith house from 1915 to 1939. She talks about the anit-Mormon sentiments of many of her neighbors and tells about how she and her husband, Willard Washington Bean, coped with these issues.
Dates:
1964
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Beard, Collins, Fisher and Weaver families of Illinois and Ohio papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 339
Overview
Handwritten letters, family histories, genealogies, deeds, wills, cash receipts, statements, mementoes, and a draft exemption of Joseph Weaver. The materials were created by the Beard, Collins, Fisher, and Weaver families of Illinois and Ohio. Joseph Weaver was exempted from the draft during the American Civil War because he was able to get a substitute. This Joseph Weaver may have been Joseph Myrtle Weaver (1832-1913), an American author.
Dates:
1816-1901
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Beaver Branch records
Collection
Identifier: UA 242
Scope and Contents
Collection includes Beaver Branch school catalogs, programs for commencement exercises and other events, invitations to dances and closing week, a collection of handwritten school yells, and other ephemera such as admission cards, postcards, and announcements. It also includes a brief history of the academy written by Mary K. Davis, and a photocopied handwritten narrative describing the campus buildings. Also contains several oversize photographs of students, faculty, and the campus. The...
Dates:
1898-1908; 1967
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Beaver Island record
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1636
Scope and Contents
Typewritten history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Strangites) at the City of James, Beaver Island, Michigan from 1848 to 1855.
Dates:
1913
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Amelia M. Beecher papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3763
Scope and Contents
Collection includes mixed materials such as scrapbooks, correspondence, cards, oral histories, cassette tapes, notes, articles, photographs, publications, and various other items. The contents of this collection appear to be oriented primarily around the life of Amelia Madsen Beecher, however there are several references to her mother, Abigal Rees Madsen, her father, Roland Adolph Madsen, and her husband, Asa L. Beecher.
Dates:
1915-1996
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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