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Arza Adams affidavit
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 971
Scope and Contents
Holograph document and statement of damages amounting to $775 sustained in the war with Chief Walker and his Utes due to Indian activities in Utah County, Utah in 1853.
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Arza Adams autobiographies and diaries
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3260
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of microfilm copies of handwritten diaries. Adams joined the Mormon Church in 1836 and served as missionary for that faith in Canada. He moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and worked on the Nauvoo Temple. He came to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1849.
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Arza Adams diaries
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 729
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries in four volumes. Also included are photocopies of the materials. Adams mentions his youth and starts his diaries in 1830. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1836 and subsequently lived in Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, and came to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1849.
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographical sketch of Arza Adams
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3281
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Anderson writes about her father, Arza Adams. Adams was born in 1804, he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to New York state. He suffered persecutions with the Mormons in Missouri, igrated to Salt Lake Valley in 1848, and participated in the settling of American Fork, Utah. He died in 1889.
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections