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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
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
A brief history of the life of Frederick Weight by himself
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3200
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript . Weight wrote about his early life in England and his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He migrated to the United States in 1849 and came to Utah in 1851. He settled first in Salt Lake City, Utah, where his wife died in child birth. Weight married Mary Milnes. He wrote about grasshopper troubles in 1854 and about his move to Springville, Utah, in 1856. He worked as a plasterer and a general laborer and faced...
Dates:
Approximately 1895
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Asa Starkweath Calkin diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3138
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten diary. The diary is in two sections, 1850-1853 and 1855-1858. In the earlier diary, Calkin writes that he arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, and talks about hauling wood and teaching school to provide for his family. In the later diary, Calkin writes about his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to England. He also worked in the office of tithing records in England. He includes copies of letters and blessings in his...
Dates:
1850-1858
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Edward Covington
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2789
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Covington was born in England in 1826. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1857 where he settled in Salt Lake City. He married Emma Pickering and died in 1919.
Dates:
1958
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Druce diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 950
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten diary. Druce was born in England; was apprenticed as a baker in London in the 1830s; moved to Manchester; joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1842; migrated to the United States in 1846; worked as an engraver in New York State; migrated to Utah in 1861; settled in Salt Lake City, Utah; and served on a mission for the Church in the Eastern States in 1876.
Dates:
1842-1876
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Eckersley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS FM 8
Abstract
Microfilmed diaries (1886-1958), correspondence, newsclippings, and ephemera (advertisements, programs, and a prohibition poster). Some letters include correspondence with Mormon leaders Francis M. Lyman, Heber J. Grant, and Charles W. Penrose. The diaries concern his missions for the Mormon Church in England, and life in Loa, Freemont, and Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dates:
1886-1958
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Greenwood autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2442
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobiography and diary. The manuscript was read by Jennie Greenwood, William's grand daugther-in-law, at a meeting of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers in Utah County, Utah. Greenwood writes about his life to the year 1848 and then starts a diary which has many gaps. Greenwood was born in England and later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, with the Mormons. He migrated to Utah in 1847 and was active in many building projects in Salt Lake City. He...
Dates:
1848-1889
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Lawrence Hutchings diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3271
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten diary. Hutchings writes about migrating from England to Utah in 1857. He also tells about his life in the Salt Lake City, Utah, area until 1877. There are many gaps in the diary. Also included are financial records for the years 1876-7 and 1885.
Dates:
1857-1885
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Wilson Lund family history
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3125
Dates:
1953
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Athole Macmasters diaries and autogiography
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 160
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries with an autobiography. There are many gaps in the diary. Macmasters writes about his life in Scotland and England, his trek to Utah in 1854, and his work in a store in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dates:
1849-1886
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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