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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.

Dates: 1830-1844

Patience Loader Archer autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3238
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten autobiography. Patience tells about her early life in England and her conversion to the Mormon Church. She presents one of the best accounts from the Martin handcart company and goes into considerable detail on the ordeal. Patience tells about the rescue and the continuous efforts of the people in the ill-fated handcart company to survive. She also writes about her arrival in Salt Lake City, Utah, and about the efforts by Brigham Young,...
Dates: 1872

Silas Richards autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 808
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of typewritten excerpts from a larger autobiography. Richards writes about his migration to Utah and his life in Salt Lake City and in Union, Utah.

Dates: 1880

Biography of John and Louise Smith Park

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1000
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of Mary's biography of her parents, but the bulk of the account is autobiographical. Mary tells of coming to Utah in 1847 including incidents en route. She tells of the early settlement of Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah including problems with Indians, crickets and grass hoppers, and the difficult living conditions.

Dates: approximately 1900

The book of life of Hugh Moon

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 751
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography. Moon was born in Lancashire, England, converted to Mormonism with his parents, came to Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1848, moved to St. George, Utah, in 1861, and relocated to Farmington, Utah, in 1866.

Dates: 1869

Biographical sketch of William T. Brown

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3287
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Shelley writes about William Thomas Brown. Brown was born in England in 1843 and migrated to Utah in 1852. During the journey, cholera killed both of Brown's parents. He lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, and later settled in Alpine, Utah.

Dates: 1925

James Lovett Bunting diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 738
Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries. Bunting writes about his service as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1857 to 1858 and his immigration to Utah in 1858. Bunting describes his preparation for the overland journey, which began at Florence, Nebraska, and the basic geography of the route. He also mentions meeting Colonel Thomas Kane. The diaries also describe Bunting's activities in Salt Lake City, Utah, his service in the Black Hawk War in 1866, his move to Kanab, Utah,...
Dates: 1857-1920; 1857-1920

James Chipman biographical sketch

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3297
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a mirofilm copy of a typewritten autobiography. Chipman was born in Missouri in 1839 and later migrated to Utah in 1847. He wrote about the plague of crickets in Salt Lake Valley, how the local people tried to kill them, and how the sea gulls came and ate the insects. He also told about the attack of grass hoppers. He later lived in American Fork, Utah. He wrote about his knowledge of Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1910

Biographical sketch of Washburn Chipman

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3291
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Sadie Chipman writes about her father, Washburn Chipman. Washburn was born in Canada in 1829 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1836. He moved near Nauvoo, Illinois, and migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1847. He later settled in American Fork, Utah, where he died in 1926

Dates: 1930

Clissold family biographies

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 70
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a 1910 autobiography of George Clissold, Mormon convert and English immigrant to Salt Lake City, Utah. Also includes a typewritten biography of Charles Edward Clissold, his oldest son, written by Lenora Pearl Clissold Vincent, Charles Edward's daughter, which tells of his early life, marriages, children, immigration to Utah, work, family life, acting experiences, and death.

Dates: 1900-1975

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Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 7
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 6
Utah Expedition (1857-1858) 5
Richards, Silas, 1807-1884 2
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Andrews, Ophelia M. 1
Archer, Patience Loader Rozsa, 1827-1921 1
Boquist, Laura Brewster 1
Brady family 1
Brigham Young Academy 1
Brockbank, Mary Park 1
Bronson, Theodore B. 1
Brown, William T. (William Thomas), 1843- 1
Bunting, James Lovett, 1832-1923 1
Cheney family 1
Cheney, Nathan, 1811-1856 1
Chipman, James 1
Chipman, Sadie 1
Chipman, Washburn 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Cotton Mission 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Southern States Mission 1
Clayson, Ruby Thornton Brown, 1889-1976 1
Clissold family 1
Covington, Edward 1
Crompton, Hannah Hardy Eckersley, 1815-1901 1
Crystal, James 1
Curtis, Joseph, 1818-1883 1
Druce, John, 1818-1897 1
Edward Martin Emigrating Company 1
Ewing, Elmer, 1856-1948 1
Fennemore, James 1
Forman, John 1
Forman, William 1
Gardner, Robert 1
Grant, David, 1816-1868 1
Greenwood, William, 1822-1891 1
Harmon, Jesse Perse, 1795-1877 1
Hascall, Irene 1
Hendricks, Drusilla Dorris 1
Hendricks, James 1
Hinckley, Ira Nathaniel, 1828-1904 1
Hinkley family 1
Holt, James, 1804-1894 1
Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941 1
Jenson, Harold H. 1
Jepson, Eleanor Nightingale, 1816-1915 1
Jepson, James, Jr., 1854-1950 1
Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 1
Johnson family 1
Johnson, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1905 1
Johnson, Joel H. (Joel Hills) 1
Johnson, Philo 1
Johnson, Seth 1
Kimball family 1
Kimball, C. G. (Christeen Golden), 1823-1896 1
Kimball, Heber C. (Heber Chase), 1801-1868 1
Knight, Newel, 1800-1847 1
Kuhn, Joseph A. 1
Lambert, Charles, 1816-1892 1
Lambert, Lily Harriet Druce 1
Larkin, Elijah, 1829-1905 1
Larkin, Ruth Coe, 1833-1915 1
Larkin, Sarah Parfey, 1812-1872 1
Larrabee, Caroline E. W. W. 1
Littlefield, Harrison D 1
Lovesy, Emma Amelia Townsend 1
Lund, Nora 1
Lund, Wilson 1
Mack family 1
Mack, Temperance Bond, 1771-1850 1
Moon, Hugh, 1815-1870 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Mary Lois Walker, 1835-1919 1
Murdock, John, 1792-1871 1
Nielsen, John 1
Ott, James A. 1
Pack, John, 1809-1885 1
Park, John 1
Park, Louise Smith 1
Richards, Kezia Frances Brady, 1841-1923 1
Salt Lake Theatre 1
Savage, Levi, 1820-1910 1
Shelley, George F., 1871-1969 1
Sherwood, Robert, 1858-1942 1
Shrock, Thomas P. (Thomas Prather), 1816-1884 1
Smith, Elias, 1804-1888 1
Smith, Job, 1828-1913 1
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 1
Smoot, A. O. (Abraham Owen), 1815-1895 1
Smoot, Diana E., (Diana Eldredge), 1837-1914 1
Smoot, Margaret T. (Margaret Thompson), 1809-1884 1
Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey), 1804-1887 1
Steele, Maggie Mae Marshall 1
Tanner, George S. 1
Tate, George F. 1
Tate, John, 1827-1898 1
Terry, William Reynolds, 1812-1868 1
Theobald, William, 1813- 1
Thompson, Vera S. 1
Tietjen, Ida Fredraca Kruger, 1825-1887 1
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