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Latter Day Saint pioneers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 1214
Scope and Contents Contains correspondence, newspaper articles, reports, manuscripts, oral histories, and other material concerning the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, mostly from 1940-2005. Collection includes administrative files, history of the Primary and Relief Society organizations within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, social services and women in the church. The records concerning the Primary and Relief Society organizations document the beginning of those...
Dates: 1880-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives

John Moburn Kay letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313832]
Identifier: MSS SC 1607
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of a letter published in the Mormon "Millennial Star." The item was addressed to George Q. Cannon, an apostle of the Mormon Church. Kay recounts the passage of the ship "Hudson" across the Atlantic with Mormon emigrants. Kay writes about the birth and death of John Winkler, son of Anna and Hans Ulrich Winkler.

Dates: 1863-1864
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John Kettle journal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230314020]
Identifier: MSS SC 1688
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a John Kettle's daily account of the voyage across the Atlantic on the ship, "Samuel Curling", and of the journey across the plains to Utah.

Dates: 1856
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Ann Julina Thrift King

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340884]
Identifier: MSS 2677
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed biography. Ann Julina Thrift King was born in Missouri in 1843. Her parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. She came to Utah and later settled in American Fork. She married Robert Edison King in 1865, had eight children, and died in 1906.

Dates: 1944
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

LaMar C. Berrett collection on the Mormon Trail, 1971-2007

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7968 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Contains Berrett's research, maps, and pioneer journals related to Mormon Trail history in Missouri, Nebraska, and Illinois. Dates range from 1971-2007.

Dates: 1971-2007
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / LaMar C. Berrett papers

History of Abel Lamb

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230243906]
Identifier: MSS SC 601
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographical sketch of Lamb, a Mormon pioneer and church leader, which tells of his baptism in New York, work as a stake president in Columbus, Missouri, exodus west, settlement in Salt Lake Valley, Utah and calling as a patriarch. Also includes family data.

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

Genealogical and historical sketch of the life of Hans Larsen of Copenhagen, Denmark

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232490224]
Identifier: MSS 628
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a typewritten biography of Hans Larsen with handwritten corrections. Also included is a typewritten biography of Cecile Marie Schmidt Larsen, the author's mother. Hans Larsen was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Denmark and migrated to Utah in 1853. The accounts include much genealogical data. Included with the biographies is a list of names and places of births in Tremonton, Utah, from 1903-1919 as reported by Cecile Mary Larsen,...
Dates: 1938
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

The life history of John and Elizabeth Betsy Evarts Nichols

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244599]
Identifier: MSS SC 564
Scope and Contents

Typewritten family history which tells of experiences in the 19th century in Fillmore, Utah and the Mormon colonies in Arizona.

Dates: approximately 1900s
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Life of John and Jamima Hutchensen Meyrick

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313550]
Identifier: MSS SC 1623
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typed extracts from John Meyrick's diary which describe his family's life as Mormon pioneers in Utah.

Dates: 1850-1922
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Life sketch of Chandler Holbrook, 1807-1899

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230240506]
Identifier: MSS SC 385
Scope and Contents

Typewritten information about Holbrook's conversion to Mormonism, his trek to the West and settlement in Utah. Also includes a TLS by Jennie Groberg, a daughter of Alsina Holbrook.

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

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