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Edwin Dilworth Woolley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1403
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, notes, and miscellaneous items relating to Edwin Dilworth Woolley, Erastus Snow, and their families which were related through marriage. The materials deal with family associations with various Mormon Church leaders, the Grand Canyon, and a wide wage of Mormon and Utah history topics.
Dates:
approximately 1850-1920
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Edwin Dilworth Woolley receipts
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 953
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of five small receipts photocopied on one page. Each item is signed and states: "Good to the Bearer for one load of Red Beets."
Dates:
1857
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Edwin Gordon Woolley autobiography and a history
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 622
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of an autobiography which includes excerpts from a diary. Woolley writes about his experiences in St. George, Utah, including business matters and Mormon Church assignments. He also gives an account of intercepting a Navajo Indian raiding party in 1869. Also included is a three-page typewritten account of Woolley having a personal visit with David Whitmer, one of the "Three Witnesses" to the Book of Mormon.
Dates:
1874-1896
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Edwin Gordon Woolley autobiography and diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 490
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typescript. Woolley writes about his early life in an autobiography and then continues his story in a diary. The journal has many gaps. He writes about his militia activities and his enconters with Paiute Indians early in his life. Wolley spent much of his adult life in St. George, Utah. He also spent time in Salt Lake City, Utah, on business and on political activities. Woolley served as a justice the peace, a city recorder, a member of a Utah constitutional convention, a...
Dates:
1869-1896
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Flora Snow Woolley memoirs
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 856
Scope and Contents
This collection is a typescript of memoirs by Flora Snow Woolley which was compiled and illustrated by Julius Woolley Dalley. Flora describes her early life in Salt Lake City, Provo, and St. George, Utah; her life as a polygamous wife and a young mother; her experiences on the "underground" to avoid arrest by federal officials for polygamy; and the rearing and educating of her own and her husband's other wife's children.
Dates:
1976
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Mary Hale Woolsey papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2294
Overview
Contains manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence (business and personal), scrapbooks, published and unpublished music, personal writings and literary works (poems, short stories, etc.) created and collected during Woolsey's career as a writer of adult and children's literature and as a composer of popular music.
Dates:
1910-1969
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Alma B. Wright papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1394
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, speeches, drawings, and memorabilia. The materials relate to Wright's carrer as a painter, as a lecturer, and as an educator at institutions of highter learning in Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dates:
1907-1931
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Sketch of the life of Margaret Thornton Wright
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3342
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography by an unknown author. Margaret Thornton Wright was born on 4 January 1844 in Scotland. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850, migrated to Utah in 1853, and later came to American Fork. She married Frekrick Wright and had 13 children. Margaret died in 1908.
Dates:
1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Henry Wright diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1347
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten diary. Wright writes about his activities as a missionary for the Mormon Church serving in Wisconsin and England. The original is in possession of James W. Petty in Ogden, Utah.
Dates:
1882-1883
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Writings and history of Jonathan Ellis Layne
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 31
Scope and Contents
Typescript (carbon copy) of an autobiographical sketch written by Layne in 1898 which gives details of his early life in Nauvoo, Illinois; his trek across the Plains to Utah; his settlement in Davis, Weber and Cache Counties, Utah; his experiences with the Mormon soldiers sent to oppose Johnston's army; and his eventual move to Alberta, Canada to escape arrest as a polygamist. Also includes extracts from his journal, 1887-1891.
Dates:
1877-1898
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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