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Biography of Margaret Cunningham Binnall
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2761
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. This copy is very dark and difficult to read. Margaret Cunningham Binnall was born in 1845 in Scotland. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the ill-fated Willie handcart company. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1921.
Dates:
1958
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography : Joseph Smith Clements Kirkwood
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2561
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Joseph Smith Clements Kirkwood was born in 1851 in Scotland. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in the Willie handcart company. The biography is chiefly an account of Joseph's sufferings on the trek. He settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1933.
Dates:
approximately 1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography : Robert Kirkman
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2542
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Kirkman was born in 1845 in England. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and he migrated to Utah in 1856 with the ill-fated Willie handcart company. Robert Kirkman lost part of his toes to the cold. He settled in American Fork, Utah, where he died in 1902.
Dates:
1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographical sketch of George Cunningham
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3288
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Loveless writes about the live of George Cunningham. Cunningham was born in 1840 in England an later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with his parents. He migrated to Utah in 1856 with the James Willie handcart company. Most of the biography is Cunningham's account of the miseries of the trek in the handcart company, written when he was 30 years old. Cunningham settled in American Fork, Utah, and was a...
Dates:
1870-1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Life of Caroline Mortensen Durham
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 518
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biography of Caroline Mortensen Durham (1850-1915). McGregor tells of her mother's migration to Utah with a handcart company, her settling in Parowan, Utah, and her mother's activities at home.
Dates:
approximately 1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Life of Samuel Rowley
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2764
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography. Rowley writes about his conversion to the Mormon Church, his migration to Utah with the Willie handcart company in 1856, and his life in Parowan and San Juan County, Utah.
Dates:
approximately 1901
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Richard Rowley autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2763
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography. Rowley writes about his conversion to the Mormon Church, his migration to Utah with the Willie handcart company, and his life in Tooele and Parowan, Utah.
Dates:
1897
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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