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Latter Day Saint missionaries -- Southern States -- Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Calvin Harris Chandler missionary journals

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197225535175]
Identifier: MSS 3314
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of four missionary journals and two missionary report books, kept while Calvin was serving in the Southwestern States Mission from May 1899 to July 1901. Also includes one transcript of the journals by Alan C. Chandler, and two digital reproductions of photographs. The photographs are of the Southwestern States Missionaries, ca. 1900, and of Elder Chandler with an unidentified couple somewhere in Texas.

Dates: 1899-1901

David Horton Elton papers, v. 1

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS2050_v1

David Horton Elton papers, v. 2

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS2050_v2

David Horton Elton papers, v. 3

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS2050_v3

David Horton Elton papers, v. 4

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS2050_v4

David Horton Elton journals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2050
Abstract

The papers of David Horton Elton contain David Horton Elton’s LDS Church mission diaries, 1898 – 1900, and one additional diary, 1905.

Dates: 1898-1905

Darwin Engstrom mission journal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232533593]
Identifier: MSS 7657
Scope and Contents

Contains the mission journal of Darwin Engstrom. The journal documents his train ride to the Southern States Mission, his visits with church members, and the cottage and fast meetings he attended. Entries date from between 1931 and 1932.

Dates: 1931-1932

John B. Fairbanks diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231567188]
Identifier: MSS 140
Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries with typescripts of several items. The diaries have many gaps. They principally cover the time Fairbanks served as a missionary for the Mormon Church in the Southern States Mission from 1881 to 1883 and when he served as a missionary for the same faith in South and Central America from 1900 to 1902. On the second mission, Fairbanks accompanied the "Cluff" expedition; led by Benjamin Cluff, president of the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah; to find evidence supporting...
Dates: 1877-1914

Asahel Luther Fuller journal typescript

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2940
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a typescript with annotations of Asahel Luther Fuller's first Southern States Mission journal, 14 February 1887 - 31 December 1887, and a typescript of his second Southern States Mission journal, 1 January 1888 - 19 February 1888.

Dates: 1887-1888

Wiley Nebeker mission journal

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230328202]
Identifier: MSS SC 3277
Scope and Contents

Journal by Nebeker while on his mission to the Southern States, Sepember 15, 1897 to April 18, 1898 (192 p. : 12 x 20 cm, pages 144-192 blank).

Dates: 1897-1898