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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:

Miscellaneous Levi James Taylor notebooks, 1913-1927

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2200 Series 2 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents note

Four notebooks: notes on his farm and plantings, quotes from Rolins Ancient History, Taylor family history and genealogy, and volume of 'Ropp's Business Calculator.'

Dates: Other: 1913-1927
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Levi James Taylor papers / Second installment of Levi James Taylor papers

Missionary journal of Amos Moroni Taylor, 1915-1917

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

Red leather cover. 9 x 15 cm. Approximately 200 pages, 90% written on. Details his mission to Virginia.

Dates: Other: 1915-1917
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Levi James Taylor papers / Second installment of Levi James Taylor papers

Mary Lois Walker Morris autobiography

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232480589]
Identifier: MSS 1566
Scope and Contents Materials include photocopies of the typewritten manuscript of Mary Lois Walker Morris's autobiography. The autobiography details events in Mary's life and the life of her family. It provides insight into religion and family life. It also gives information about Quakers in England, conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, emmigration, and polygamy in Utah. Includes an additional transcription made from the typewritten manuscript. Appears to have been written between...
Dates: approximately 1895-1908
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Price W. Nelson journal and autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3121
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of Price W. Nelson. The account is largely retrospective even though much of it is written like diary entries. Also included is a diary to Nelson dated 5 Aug. 1935. Nelson writes about his birth in California in 1855, his journey to Utah in 1857. He also settled in Franklin, Idaho, in 1859 and moved to Logan, Utah, in 1864. He later moved to Glendale, Utah. He lived in numerous other places in Arizona and...
Dates: approximately 1913-1946
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

On morality, polygamy and the Mormon faith

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312362]
Identifier: MSS SC 1404
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes for a speech by an unknown author given at a Mormon conference at Liverpool, England of which the first 8 pages are missing. The item discusses the doctrines of salvation, morality, polygamy, and the Mormon faith.

Dates: approximately 1850
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Oral history interview with Moroni Otto Poulson

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 60
Scope and Contents

Interview by Leonard R. Grover with Moroni O. Poulson, rancher and teacher, concerning his education with brief varied comments about Brigham Young University activities between 1905 and 1910. Also briefly discusses his family. Includes sound recordings and transcript.

Dates: 1980
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives

Oral reminiscences of B. F. Larsen

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233271631]
Identifier: UA OH 111
Scope and Contents

Oral reminiscences of Bent Larsen about his father Bent Rolf Larsen. Also discusses his own later life, including marriage, education and career. Earliest memories commence in the 1880s. Includes transcript and sound recordings.

Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives

Other journals of Levi James Taylor, 1872-1935

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2200 Series 2 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents note

51 journal notebooks, and one 'scratchbook.'

Dates: Other: 1872-1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Levi James Taylor papers / Second installment of Levi James Taylor papers

Our Grandfather's family : William Felshaw's family

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244763]
Identifier: MSS SC 584
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographical sketch which tells of his work on the Kirtland and Nauvoo Temples and of his involvement in early Fillmore, Utah. Also includes genealogical data and a letter from the donor.

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

Pioneer, Robert Edison King : came to Utah in 1852

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340363]
Identifier: MSS 2455
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. King was born in 1834 in England and was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age eight. He migrated to the United States and settled for a time in Nauvoo, Illinois. He came to Utah in 1852 and resided in American Fork. He had three wives, many childen, and died in 1921.

Dates: 1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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