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Latter Day Saint pioneers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

Susan Morris Buckwalter Turner biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230314905]
Identifier: MSS SC 1735
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typed biography of Susan Morris Buckwalter Turner, English convert to the Mormon Church, who settled in American Fork, Utah.

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

Utah Centennial Commission posters

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233608204]
Identifier: MSS P 452
Scope and Contents

Collection includes 12 posters distributed by the Utah Centennial Commission. Each poster includes information about an early pioneer leader in Utah.

Dates: 1947
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Walton family biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230240852]
Identifier: MSS SC 424
Scope and Contents

Typescript of family stories and pioneer experiences. Describes the growth of Alpine, Utah and its educational system in 1860-1870 and in Provo, Utah in 1870-1877. Also includes a memorial to Emma Jacques Walton.

Dates: 1931
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James Wareham journal no. 2

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234814]
Identifier: MSS SC 129
Scope and Contents

Handwritten account of Wareham's mission to Missouri, leading a company of emigrants from Missouri to Utah and Wareham's life to 1870. Also includes a copy of a vision by Newman Bulkley concerning Utah and the Mormons in the 1880's.

Dates: 1862-1870
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Anders Gustave Warnick biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230314848]
Identifier: MSS SC 1751
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a biography of Anders Gustave Warnick, Swedish convert to the Mormon Church, who emigrated to America and died crossing the plains to Utah, along with most of his family.

Dates: 1955
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Washburn biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230327014]
Identifier: MSS SC 2683
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographies of two persons with copies. The dates of the composition of these materials are uncertain. The items are biographies of Tamer Washburn Washburn (1805-1886) and Flora Clarinda Gleason Washburn (1819- ). Each person was a Mormon pioneer to Utah. Flora lived in Manti, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William L. Watkins biographical sketches

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233212]
Identifier: MSS SC 60
Scope and Contents

Typescript (plus carbon copy) of an autobiography written by Watkins which gives a life history from his birth until his arrival in Utah in 1852. Also includes a typewritten biography of Watkins from 1852 to his death, written by his daughter, Aurilla Watkins Whipple. Also includes a typescript of Watkins' certificate of United States citizenship and a letter from the donor.

Dates: 1827-1911
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

George Peden Waugh papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197235232599]
Identifier: MSS 8469
Dates: approximately 1854-1856
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Daniel H. Wells papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239135541]
Identifier: MSS 9637
Scope and Contents Two photocopies of original handwritten letters written by Daniel H. Wells. Typed transcripts of both letters are also included. The first letter was written on September 26, 1848, from Salt Lake City by Daniel Wells to "dear brother." He discusses sending his two yoke of oxen to a camp in addition to assistance from others. The second letter was written on April 26th, 1852, and is titled "Special Order No. 1" and is signed by Lieutenant General D. H. Wells, James Ferguson, Adjutant General....
Dates: 1848-1852
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biographies of John Wesley and wife, Eliza Ebbey Phillips

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336882]
Identifier: MSS 2704
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten dual biography. John Wesley Phillips was born in New Jersey in 1843, migrated to Utah in 1862, and settled in American Fork. He married Eliza Ann Ebbey in 1867. She came to Utah in 1848. John died in 1899.

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

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