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Latter Day Saint missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:

Ira Hyer diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 884
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photocopies of Hyer's diaries. Hyer was called as a Mormon missionary to serve in the Society Islands and labored there from 1912 to 1915. From 1914 to 1915 he served as mission president of the Society Islands Mission. He was a soldier during World War I but saw no action being in Wales when the armistice was signed.

Dates: 1912-1919

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

Jacob and Sarah Warnock Scott family history / written and edited by James W. Scott

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239115550]
Identifier: MSS 9292
Scope and Contents Contains a compact disc labeled, "Jacob and Sarah Warnock Scott Family History; Written and Edited by James W. Scott; June 2002." The CD contains a PDF document of the family history of James Scott, starting with Jacob and Sarah Warnock Scott when they left Scotland and continuing through their time in Nauvoo. It includes the lives of many of their descendant and documents their experiences as early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, their missions, and their...
Dates: 2002

Jessie E. Murphy diary

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSSSC1010
Dates: 1867-1869

Brigham Johnson journals

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230241256]
Identifier: MSS SC 434
Scope and Contents

Holograph journals which relate experiences and observations while on his mission.

Dates: 1889-1892

George Lake diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237692]
Identifier: MSS SC 720
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an account covering 1870-1879 of Lake's Latter-day Saint church mission to England and his leadership of a new Mormon settlement in Arizona. Appended is the "Last Address" by Joseph Smith.

Dates: 1870-1879

Charles J. Langston papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197221961250]
Identifier: MSS 8674
Scope and Contents

Materials include photographs, letters, and documents related to Charles J. Langston's mission to Tonga from 1916 to 1918 and his death in Tonga in 1918. There is a letter to the family from the First Presidency and signed by Heber J. Grant, a photograph of Langston's tombstone in Tonga taken in 2002, letters from his mission president, and a letter home written by Langston himself. Dated 1916-2002.

Dates: 1916-2002; Majority of material found within 1916-1918

Alof Pratt Larson and Margaret Smith Larson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8763
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the papers of Alof Pratt and Margaret Smith Larson, residents of Snowflake, Lakeside, Phoenix, and Taylor, Arizona. Includes correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, school notes, items from the Taylor Cash Store, legal papers, missionary notes and journals, family history research and stories, and notes from Alof's various careers and church service. Materials are dated 1900-1973.

Dates: approximately 1900-1973

Latter-day Saint Missionary postcard collection

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227654867]
Identifier: MSS 3679
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 86 postcards of Utah scenes and postcards of LDS missionaries serving LDS missions in England. Several of the postcards have been written on.

Dates: 1914-1917

Jesse Holyoak LeFevre journal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315290]
Identifier: MSS SC 1803
Scope and Contents

Leatherbound handwritten journal of a Mormon missionary in the Southern States including Georgia and Tennessee. There is a handwritten copy of Jesse Lefevre's patriarchal blessing at the end of the journal.

Dates: 1900-1902