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Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 139 Collections and/or Records:

Eleanor Cannon Woodbury Jarvis autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3098
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript. The item is a fragment of an autobiography of Eleanor Cannon Woodbury Jarvis. She was born on 9 March 1854. She moved to St. George, Utah, in 1861 and married George Frederick Jarvis in 1872. She tells about her and her husband's work in the Mormon Church, describes the activities of her children, and gives her opinion of polygamy.

Dates: approximately 1922
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Eleanor Cannon Woodbury Jarvis autobiography

George Frederick Jarvis life sketch

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329721]
Identifier: MSS SC 3099
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of George Frederick Jarvis, who was born on 16 June 1847 in Stepney, England. The item was written in the third person. Jarvis migrated to the United States with his family and came to Utah in 1860. He had problems with his feet while walking to Utah. He lived in Salt Lake City until 1861 when his family moved to St. George, Utah. He participated in military actions against Indians, married Eleanor Cannon on...
Dates: approximately 1920
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / George Frederick Jarvis life sketch

John Horne Miles interviews, 1962-1993

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2310 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Interview typescripts and resulting essays by Henry Landon Miles: works on J. H. Miles, George E. Miles, Ezra Weekes, LaRue Miles Elison, Maurice Jarvis Miles, and Richard Miles. Dated 1962-1993.

Dates: Other: 1962-1993
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2310, Henry Landon Miles collection on John Horne Miles

William Derby Johnson diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1506
Scope and Contents This collection consists of photocopied diaries. The initial thirty-two pages are autobiographical and tell of the first twenty-one years of the author's life. The journal entries are from December 2, 1871 to January 24, 1894. The years 1873 to 1876 are summarized. Johnson attended Deseret University and later taught there. He married Lucy A. Salisbury on November 29, 1869. He taught school in Washington and Kanab, Utah. Johnson served as a territorial legislator 1878-1882 from Kane and...
Dates: 1871-1894
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Derby Johnson diary

Albert Jones prison journal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236470]
Identifier: MSS SC 228
Scope and Contents

Holograph diary which includes minutes and business records of the Provo City Corporation, lists of other people convicted and sentenced, poems of prisoners, news articles written by Jones on prison activities, and letters he received from family and friends during his period of imprisonment.

Dates: 1888
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Albert Jones prison journal

Johanna Christena Larson Jones autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197223105211]
Identifier: MSS SC 3151
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography by Jones in which she also tells about her parents. Jones was born in 1854 in Sweden and soon emigrated to the United States where she stayed for two years in St. Louis, Missouri. At that time her brother was kidnapped by those who did not like the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Johanna's "mother never got over grieving for her lost boy. When a number of years had gone by they again...
Dates: 1915
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Johanna Christena Larson Jones autobiography

Biographies of William Edward Jones and Mary Jones Jones

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230332188]
Identifier: MSS SC 3203
Scope and Contents Gives a brief history of Edward and Mary Jones from the time they lived in Wales to Edward's death in Utah. It includes their conversion to the Mormon Church, their emmigration to the United States, their trek across the plains and settlement in Parowan, Utah. There Edward took on two more wives (Eliza Newman and Sarah Davis). This history relates several experiences of living in a polygamist household. After the United States outlawed polygamy Edward was arrested twice but released both...
Dates: approximately 1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biographies of William Edward Jones and Mary Jones Jones

Thomas Jefferson Jones autobiography and a biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329713]
Identifier: MSS SC 3100
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript. One two-paged item is an autobiography of Jones. The other item is a two-paged biography of Jones by an unknown person at an unknown date. Jones was born on 6 September 1838 in Pittsfield, Illinois. He came to Willard, Utah, and later settled in Panaca, Nevada, and Washington and Parowan, Utah. Jones served as bishop and stake president in the Mormon Church and was prosecuted for polygamy.

Dates: approximately 1912-1920
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Thomas Jefferson Jones autobiography and a biography

Journal of Margaret Pierce Whitesides Young

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233071]
Identifier: MSS SC 68
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a journal which gives accounts of Young's conversion to Mormonism, visits of church leaders, marriage to Brigham Young, exodus west, experiences in Utah and her feelings about women's suffrage and the practice of polygamy.

Dates: approximately 1900-1976
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Journal of Margaret Pierce Whitesides Young

Karl G. Maeser personal correspondence, 1861-1900

 Series
Identifier: UA 1094 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence related to the personal life and projects of Maeser, along with correspondence related to his family. Included are Maeser's correspondence with Brigham Young about the issue of plural marriage and the state of his family. Dates range from 1861 to 1900.

Dates: 1861-1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / UA 1094, Karl G. Maeser correspondence

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