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John Van Cott papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1743
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, and a family history. The correspondence is between Van Cott and family members. Also included are handwritten and signed letters from Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church, to Van Cott. The diaries cover the time when Van Cott served as a missionary for the Mormon Church from 1852 to 1856 and from 1859 to 1862. He was in Iowa City, Iowa, when the first handcart companies left for Utah.
Dates:
1838-1913
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Norma Vance research papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 8322
Scope and Contents
Contains research materials collected by Vance pertaining to the history of the Fairview, Utah area since its founding in 1849, Vance family history, history of Spring City, Utah, documents regarding Fairview's mayors since 1872, and personal histories of Fairview's founding fathers. Materials dated approximately 1960-2008.
Dates:
approximately 1960-2008
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Victor Waite and family's life history
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8346
Scope and Contents
Typed summary about the family of Victor and Blanche Waite. It includes information on their four children, their children's spouses, marriage dates (including sealing dates in Mormon temple), and their children. Dated approximately 1955.
Dates:
approximately 1955
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Oral history interview with Lucinda Vijil
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6730
Abstract
Oral history interview with Lucinda Vijil, conducted on 6 July 1971 by Elsie Sotomayor for the Utah State Historical society and California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program.
Dates:
1971
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Sarah Sybil Douglas Vincent recollections and recipes
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2902
Scope and Contents
Brief family history of the Roland and Sybil Vincent family, 1934-1991. The settings for most of the history were Provo and Fairview, Utah. Compiled by Sybil Vincent, Roland Vincent, P. Bradford Westwood and Verlie Westwood for Christams 1991. Food recipes are interspersed throughout the volume
Dates:
1991
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Vineyard Ward history
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2653
Scope and Contents
Photographs, histories, and news clippings of the Vineyard War; much of which was used in the book, "Our Vineyard Heritage: a Wellspring of Tradition and Change, 1899-1999." A typed paper titled, "History of Utah-Idaho Sugar Beet Slicer Located at Lake View, Utah County, Utah," by Ray Gammon. A paper titled "The Dairy Industry of Vineyard," by J. Taylor Allen, dated 1976. A short paragraph account by Cora Olpin of her teaching in the Vineyard public school. Received Aug. 30, 2001. Programs...
Dates:
1899-1999
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Voices of Remembrance Foundation oral history collection
Collection — Carton: 1
Identifier: MSS 8395
Scope and Contents
Collection contains transcribed interviews of 93 different people conducted by the Voices of Remembrance Foundation at Dixie State College, bound in seven volumes. The interviews occurred between 1968 to 1980, and the transcriptions produced through grant funding by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies.
Dates:
1968-1980
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Life sketch of T. A. Waddoups and a history of the Hawaiian Colony
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3205
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a newspaper article called "Life Sketch of T. A. Waddoups." The item was created at an unknown time. Waddoups was the president of the Hawaiian Colony and manager of the Isepa Agricultural and Stocky Company from 1901 to 1917. In 1868 Hawaiian converts began coming to Utah to perform their Mormon temple ordinances. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints purchased the Quiney ranch in Skull Valley, Utah, In Tooele County. Also included is a photocopy...
Dates:
1935
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Mark and Olivia Waddoups diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS 8421
Scope and Contents
Contains the mission and personal journals of William Mark Waddoups and Olivia Waddoups from 1900 to 1958. Diaries discuss William Mark Waddoups' first mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Hawaii, and William and Olivia's missions together to Hawaii and to the Samoan Islands (which also encompassed New Zealand), and their service in the Salt Lake City Temple.
Dates:
1900-1958
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Waking the sleeping giant : a history of the China Teachers Program, Brigham Young University David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 3167
Scope and Contents
Self-published history of the China Teachers Program. It examines the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the country of China leading up to the establishment of the China Teachers Program. It also discusses the establishment of the China Teachers Program through the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies and its operation through 2002.
Dates:
1900-2002
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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