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Genealogical Library collection

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6879
Abstract

Collection includes two boxes containing personal histories.

Dates: 1825-1975

Elias Smith journal typescript

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2452
Scope and Contents

Collection includes typescripts of journals kept by Elias Smith between 1836 and 1888. The journals document Smith's travels, experiences, and other events.

Dates: 1836-1888

Barzillai Frost travel journal

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3276
Scope and Contents

Journal kept by Barzillai Frost during his travels in the West in 1843. Includes an account of his visit to Nauvoo, Ill., and his meeting with Joseph Smith and other prominent Mormons. A photocopy and transcript of the diary are also included in the collection, as well as articles and biographical information on Frost.

Dates: 1843

Eve Ball manuscripts and photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7740
Scope and Contents

Collection contains revised manuscripts of some book chapters written by Eve Ball, and photographs that support her research of Native Americans.

Dates: 1966

The songstress of Dernford Dale : the life of poetess, diarist and Latter-day Saint pioneer Hannah Tapfield King / Dorothy Brewerton, Carolyn Gorwill and Leonard Reed

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8020
Scope and Contents

Contains one biography, written by Dorothy Brewerton, Carolyn Gorwill, and Leonard Reed in 2011, about Hannah Tapfield King. The biography contains transcriptions of her journals, her writings, and some of her autobiographical sketches. The biography describes her life in England and her journey to Utah as a pioneer. There is also some information about her ancestors, as written by Hannah Tapfield King.

Dates: 2011 May

Don C. Conley oral histories for The Pioneer Chinese of Utah

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 7633
Scope and Contents

Collection includes twelve sound reels containing interviews of either descendants of early settlers in the Utah Territory, such as Wallace Clay, or Utah historians, like Juanita Brooks. The interviews are oral histories that were used as part of Conley's master's thesis, published in 1976. Each reel includes one person's story, with the exception of reel number nine, which contains two interviews. Dated 1974-1975.

Dates: 1974-1975

Biography of Samuel Miles the son of Samuel and Prudence Marks

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7599
Scope and Contents Manuscript autobiography, labeled by the author as a biography, with thirty-two pages of a handwritten life story by Samuel Miles. The story includes a life summary from 1826 to 1851, and short yearly summaries for each year between 1852 and 1881. The text includes information that is particularly familial and spiritual, but often references broader historical events that contextualize his life. He mentions several events in Latter-day Saintn history including the violence in Missouri, his...
Dates: approximately 1852-1881

Transcription of the Averett Family ledger book

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1303
Scope and Contents

Narrative of the history of members of the Averett family, including conversion, activities in Far West and Nauvoo, emigration westward, and settlement and activities in Utah Territory. The transcription was entrusted to P.T. Reilly.

Dates: 1972

Emmeline B. Wells diary typescripts

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1407
Abstract

Includes two linear feet of unedited typed transcripts including the years 1844-1846 and 1874-1920. Her entries are daily, tell of her activities, and often present her opinions and impressions as well. The accounts are often lengthy and detailed. The 1882 diary also includes entries by Well's daughter, Louisa.

Dates: 1844-1920

Jesse M. Harmon family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1665
Scope and Contents Collection consists of materials by and about the Jesse M. Harmon family. Of particular focus are Jesse M. Harmon, who was a prominent member of the community in Provo, Utah, and his father Appleton Milo Harmon, who was an original pioneer to Utah in 1847, and was known for constructing the odometer invented by William Clayton. Includes biographical and genealogical sketches of several family members, newspaper clippings, journal transcripts, family newsletters, and other documents used in...
Dates: approximately 1868-1989

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Transcripts 13
Overland Journeys to the Western United States 12
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Chinese Americans -- Utah -- History 2
Expeditions and Adventure 2
Latter Day Saint pioneers 2
Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Utah 2
Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857 2
Oral Histories 2
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Business, Industry, Labor, and Commerce 1
Certificates 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1
Civic improvement 1
Correspondence 1
England 1
Far West (Mo.) 1
Fort Duchesne (Utah) -- History 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Gold mines and mining -- California 1
Handcarts -- West (U.S.) -- History 1
Historians -- Utah -- Interviews 1
Historic sites 1
Histories (Literary works) 1
Home and Family 1
Honduras -- Emigration and immigration -- History 1
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Immigrants -- Canada -- Inverviews 1
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Kanab (Utah) 1
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Latter Day Saint churches -- History -- 19th century 1
Latter Day Saint churches -- Missions -- England 1
Latter Day Saint converts -- Connecticut -- History 1
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Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- Provo -- History 1
Latter Day Saints -- Diaries 1
Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- Diaries 1
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Local histories 1
Manuscripts 1
Mexico 1
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Missions and Missionaries 1
Mormon authors -- Biography 1
Mormons -- Emigration and immigration 1
Mormons -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century 1
Nauvoo (Ill.) 1
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Newsletters 1
Notes 1
Nurses -- United States -- Interviews 1
Oral history -- Utah -- Provo -- History 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific 1
Pamphlets 1
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Uinta Basin (Utah and Colo.) -- History -- Sources 1
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 3
Smith family 2
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 2
Averett, Elijah, 1810-1886 1
Averett, Johanna Christina Neilson, 1837-1924 1
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Averett, John, -1847 1
Averett, Murray 1
Ball, Eve 1
Brewerton, Dorothy, 1934- 1
Brown, James, 1801-1863 1
Bryson, Dorothy Jane Larson,1923-2006 1
Campbell, Dennis, 1936-2012 1
Cannon, Louisa Martha Wells, 1862-1888 1
Carroll, Paul Wayne 1
Caughron family 1
Christiansen, Emily 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Library 1
Conley, Don C. 1
Dean, Kathryn L. Edwards 1
Edward Martin Emigrating Company 1
Edwards family 1
Ferguson family 1
Ferguson, Joseph M. (Joseph Martin), 1820-1896 1
Frost, Barzillai, 1804-1858 1
Garcia, Fernando, 1989- 1
Garcia, Ignacio M. 1
Garcia, Silvia, 1969- 1
Gorwill, Carolyn 1
Habel, Stanislawa, 1943- 1
Hanks, Ephraim K., -1896 1
Harmon (Family : Harmon, Jesse M. (Jesse Martin), 1868-1922) 1
Harmon family 1
Harmon, Appleton Milo, 1820-1877 1
Harmon, Jesse M. (Jesse Martin), 1868-1922 1
Hinkley, Arza Erastus 1
Hollist, J. Taylor 1
James G. Willie Emigrating Company 1
King, Hannah Tapfield 1
Law, Walton LeGrande, 1897-1998 1
Lee, John D. (John Doyle), 1812-1877 1
Mann, Henry Rice, 1814-1852 1
McManus, Stella, 1918- 1
Miles, Samuel, 1826-1910 1
Olsen, Hans Peter 1
Ott, Nancy W. (Nancy Williams), 1822-1863 1
Paul, Earl Stanley, 1889-1988 1
Peart, Jacob, 1801-1874 1
Peirce family 1
Peirce, Robert, 1797-1884 1
Reed, Leonard, 1947- 1
Reilly, P. T. (Plez Talmadge), 1911-1996 1
Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 1
Rockwell, Orrin Porter, 1813-1878 1
Salmon, Louise Linton, 1917- 1
Smith, Alvin Fielding, 1874-1948 1
Smith, Amelia Atkins, 1875-1960 1
Smith, Elias, 1804-1888 1
St. George Temple (Saint George, Utah) 1
Tanner, George S. 1
Udall, Stewart L. 1
United States. Army. Mormon Battalion 1
Walker, Gary Lee 1
Wells, Emmeline B. (Emmeline Blanche), 1828-1921 1
Wilhelm, Clarissa Harden, 1820-1901 1
Wood, Wilford C. (Wilford Cotton), 1893-1968 1
Woodward, Claire, 1992- 1
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 1
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