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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:

Uintah Stake correspondence, 1906-1925

 Series — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197231039063]
Identifier: MSS 90 Series 1
Scope and Contents This series contains Uintah Stake correspondence. It documents the internal business of the stake. It contains information on scheduling meetings and conferences, organizing branches and wards, ordinations, church calls and releases (including mission calls), finances (appropriations, tithes and offerings, and accounts), colonizing and settlement of the Uintah Basin, construction of buildings, education at Brigham Young University in Provo, and plans to start a newspaper. Most letters were...
Dates: 1906-1925
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Uintah Stake correspondence and records

Uintah Stake correspondence and records

 Collection — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197231039063]
Identifier: MSS 90
Abstract

Correspondence discussing topics such as colonization of the Uintah Basin, Mormon Church administration, and the practice of polygamy.

Dates: 1906-1920
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Uintah Stake correspondence with the Presiding Bishopric and First Presidency, 1906-1909

 Series — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197231039063]
Identifier: MSS 90 Series 2
Scope and Contents This series includes Uintah Stake correspondence (1906-1909) with the Presiding Bishopric and First presidency. Correspondence with the Presiding Bishopric and the First Presidency documents general church affairs, decisions, policy, and communications with the stakes of the church. Subjects covered include missionary work and calls, finances, reports and statistics, doctrinal issues, colonizing, land purchases, church property, and building programs. Missionary Appointments is a list of...
Dates: 1906-1909
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Uintah Stake correspondence and records

Charles Ursenbach collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1853
Scope and Contents Includes intermittent journals, 1921-1971, and daily journals, 1973-1985; photocopied news clippings, primarily about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Canada, 1956-1981; transcripts of oral histories that Ursenbach recorded with Chesley N. Pierson, Louis O. Brandley, and Asael E. Palmer; personal histories of Elizabeth Fern Wood Smith and Ole F. Pierson; Ursenbach's history of Richard C. Harvey and the development of Romnellet sheep; histories of Latter-day Saint wards in...
Dates: 1924-1985
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Utah District Court records of United States vs. George Reynolds

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231037810]
Identifier: MSS 6286
Abstract

The Utah District Court Records of United States vs. George Reynolds is a microfilm copy of papers and files of United States vs. George Reynolds case on polygamy from 1874.

Dates: 1985
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Philip T. Van Zile scrapbook

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 81
Scope and Contents

Bound scrapbook which contains newspaper clippings regarding The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, polygamy, Van Zile's work as U.S. District Attorney, and other activities that took place in Utah during the early 1880's. Many items are accompanied by holograph notations by Van Zile. Also includes letters to Van Zile from William M. Thompson and Robert G. McNiece.

Dates: 1879-1883
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

W. D. poetry and illustrations

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230310598]
Identifier: MSS SC 1303
Scope and Contents Two unbound booklets of handwritten poetry with pen and ink illustrations. One of the booklets is a fully illustrated poem entitled "A Mormon Romance" which satirizes the Mormon practice of polygamy. On the cover of this item is a pen and ink illustration of Nauvoo, Ill. The other item contains poems describing the author's experiences while visiting the Mormon community of Nauvoo, Illinois in 1840 when she was introduced to the Mormon Church, met Brigham Young, and heard a sermon...
Dates: 1871
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Wallet, and mission and penitentiary journals of Levi James Taylor, 1883-1897

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2200 Series 2 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents note

Wallet containing miscellaneous receipts, business cards, bank notes, etc. Letter from Polly Hanslew (from wallet) on genealogy. Mission journal, approximately 200 pages, all written on. Journal kept while Taylor was serving in prison for "cohabitation." 10 x 14 cm. Approximately 150 pages, with about 60 written on.

Dates: Other: 1883-1897
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Levi James Taylor papers / Second installment of Levi James Taylor papers

Life story of David Ward

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329754]
Identifier: MSS SC 3081
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm of a typewritten document. The item is a biography of David Ward who was born on 13 January 1834 in Leicester, England. He was the youngest of nine children born to William Ward and Susanna Webster Ward. David was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 22 February 1846. He migrated to the United States in 1847 with his mother and father. They settled near Council Bluffs, Iowa. David Ward and his family came to Salt Lake City, Utah, in...
Dates: approximately 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biographical sketch of the life of William R. Webb

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339464]
Identifier: MSS SC 3344
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. William R. Webb was born in England in 1829, married Martha Carless in 1854, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1860. He migrated to Utah in 1867 and settled in American Fork. He took a second wife, returned to England in 1886 as a missionary for the Mormon Church, and died in 1915. Also included is a poem written by Webb to "Sister Ellen Barrett on Her Fiftieth Birthday."

Dates: 1929
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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