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Latter Day Saint pioneers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

In memory of

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340702]
Identifier: MSS 2502
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten poem. Ingersoll praises pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dates: 1939
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

In the pioneer group to the Iron Co. Mission, was another great leader, Anson Call, who became a great colonizer

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329770]
Identifier: MSS SC 3079
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm reproduction of a typed manuscript. The item is a biography of Anson Call by an unnamed author. The date of composition is uncertain. Anson Call was born in Fletcher, Franklin County, Vermont on 13 May 1810. Call married Mary Flint and later joined the Mormon Church. "He was closely associated with the Prophet Joseph [Joseph Smith, 1805-1844], and with the saints was driven from his home. He had a great love the the Prophet and did all he could to protect him...
Dates: 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Isabel Modalena Whitney Sears correspondence, 1865

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Vault MSS 76 Series 2 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 7
Scope and Contents

Contains two letters by Whitney focusing on family and personal matters, dating from around 1865.

Dates: 1865
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Newel Kimball Whitney papers / Whitney family papers / Papers of Whitney family children

Isaiah Kempton letter to Asenath F. Sprague

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233294211]
Identifier: Vault MSS 687
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter from Kempton at Sunbury, Ohio to his sister-in-law Asenath Sweet of Strong, Maine. The letter discusses the Mormon migration and polygamy.

Dates: 1848
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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

Andrew Jenson : historian, churchman, traveler, missionary and author

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230243856]
Identifier: MSS SC 606
Scope and Contents

Typewritten draft of a biographical sketch written for the Utah State Historical Society of a Mormon pioneer, missionary, author-journalist and assistant Latter-day Saint Church historian. It describes (mainly through excerpts from his autobiography) his activities in those capacities, as well as his emigration from Denmark to Utah and family data. Also included are two articles by Newell Knight and an article from the Salt Lake City Historian's Office pertaining to "Washington Square."

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

Of memories and experiences of James Jepson Jr.

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330547]
Identifier: MSS SC 3140
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of James Jepson. Jepson writes about his parents in England, how they joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois. Jepson also tells about his parents' further migration to Utah in 1852. James writes about his birth and early life in Salt Lake City, Utah, his move to Virgin, Utah, in 1862, his marriage in 1876 to Lucinda Stratton, and his many services to the Mormon...
Dates: 1932
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Mildred Johnson collection of biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230333814]
Identifier: MSS 1150
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typewritten biographies. The items deal with the Rowley family in the Willie handcart company of 1856 and the Rowley family in Utah. These materials were probably written by the same author at an unknown time.

Dates: ca. 1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History manuscripts on Social Services, 1949-1984

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 1214 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains oral histories and manuscripts for a book on the history of social services in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1949-1984.

Dates: 1949-1984
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records

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