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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:

John Paternoster Squires diary excerpts

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345693]
Identifier: MSS 976
Scope and Contents Photocopies of typescripts of diary excerpts, a biographical sketch, and family genealogies. There are many gaps in the diary. Squires writes about his early life, joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1847, and migrating to Utah in 1853. He also discusses his polygamous marriages; his mission to England; his life in Salt Lake City, Utah; his attempts to avoid being arrested by federal officials for polygamy; his trial for unlawful cohabitation; and his subsequent...
Dates: 1848-1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Katherine H. A. State papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230237262]
Identifier: MSS SC 700
Scope and Contents

Collection of personal writings, documents and photographs assembled to serve as an autobiography. Within the collection is correspondence with State's first husband, Rulon C. Allred; with Latter-day Saint Church General Authorities; and with other relatives. Also included are legal documents, genealogical records and news clippings.

Dates: 1908-1979
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Thomas Christian Stephenson autograph book

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232491149]
Identifier: MSS 669
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of handwritten autographs and comments in an autograph book. The entries often mention polygamy, the Mormon Church, and the conditions of the penitentiary.

Dates: 1889-1890
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Irene Sherwood Taylor family histories of Robert Sherwood and Alice Schoenfeld

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231045441]
Identifier: MSS 6259
Abstract

The collection contains two brief biographies of Robert Sherwood and Alice Schoenfeld written by their daughter Irene Sherwood Taylor. The majority of the collection is written by Irene Sherwood Taylor pertaining to memories of her parents during her childhood. Her parents had a post-manifesto polygamy marriage.

Dates: approximately 1960-1983
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Levi James Taylor papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2200
Abstract Includes ten journals, 1873-1935. There are date gaps in the journals, and some volumes are missing. Includes a typed copy of the journals. Also contains a Taylor family genealogical record which includes an autobiographical sketch of Levi's father, Pleasant Green Taylor. Also includes a journal of Levi's first wife, Nancy Jane Gates, September 1868-August 1869. Her record includes lists of students she taught at Lynne, Utah, in 1868; lists of children who attended Sunday School in Lynne,...
Dates: 1868-1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Moses Whitaker Taylor papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1441
Abstract

Includes original diaries, 1884-1909. Other papers include patriarchal, father's and missionary blessings; copies of reports to the First Presidency of the Church concerning problems in Coalville, Utah; newspaper clippings; and a Latter-day Saint stake president's certificate for Taylor's son, Moses C. Taylor.

Dates: 1862-1922
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Pleasant Green Taylor autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232514692]
Identifier: MSS 3896
Scope and Contents

Typescript of Pleasant Green Taylor Autobiography.

Dates: 1894
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Charles Alphonzo Terry autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244292]
Identifier: MSS SC 652
Scope and Contents

Handwritten fragment of an autobiography composed at an unknown date. Terry writes about his incarceration for polgyamy in the Utah prison in 1890.

Dates: approximately 1920
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Enoch B. Tripp papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2032
Scope and Contents Eighteen volumes of journals and other papers. Volumes document Enoch B. Tripp's conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his missions to the state of Maine, his visit with Joseph Smith's mother (Lucy Mack Smith), wife (Emma Smith), and son (Joseph Smith III) in Nauvoo in November 1855, his participation in the Utah War in 1857, and his life in Salt Lake City. Tripp discusses anti-polygamy legislation, his time on the Mormon "Underground" to avoid arrest for practicing...
Dates: 1841-1908
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Uintah Stake business correspondence, 1906-1920

 Series — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197231039063]
Identifier: MSS 90 Series 3
Scope and Contents

This series contains business correspondence from 1906-1920 documenting the interaction of the stake and some of its units with businessmen in the Uintah Basin, Utah, and other areas. Most of the businesses patronized appear to have been in Utah and a large percentage of the purchases made were for the construction and furnishing of the new stake tabernacle.

Dates: 1906-1920
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Uintah Stake correspondence and records

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