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Church Government

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 569 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, 1881-1930

 Series
Identifier: MSS 1421 Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Zina Young Williams Card collection is a valuable source of primary materials dealing with the early history of Logan, Utah and Cardston, Alberta, Canada. It also contains some documents related to her life in Provo, Utah and her affiliation with the educational institutions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in that day, particularly the Brigham Young Academy at Provo.The personal correspondence of Zina Young Williams Card covers the period from 1881 to 1930....
Dates: 1881-1930

Oliver Cowdery affidavit

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2499
Scope and Contents

Notarized affidavit signed by Oliver Cowdery as a notary public. The item verifies that a notice relating to a certain property in Walworth County, Wisconsin had been listed in a local newspaper for E. A. Cooley.

Dates: 1848

Matthew Cowley letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313907]
Identifier: MSS SC 1591
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten letter addressed to his sister, Laura, concerning the translation of Mormon scriptures into the Maori language. In 1917 Matthew Cowley helped revise the original translation of the Book of Mormon with the help of native Maori people. He went on to translate the Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price.

Dates: 1932

Matthew Cowley newspaper clippings

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230326958]
Identifier: MSS SC 2777
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of newspaper clippings relating to the career and activities of the apostle in the Mormon Church, Matthew Cowley.

Dates: 1924-1953

Francis M. Cox account book

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232484482]
Identifier: MSS 443
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of handwritten entries in an account book. The materials listed were donated and taken out of the "United Order." The "Order" was an attempt by Mormons to hold all goods in common.

Dates: 1877-1878

Martha Cragun Cox collected reminiscences

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336726]
Identifier: MSS 915
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten notebook. The item includes reminiscent accounts collected by Cox from elderly people who knew Joseph Smith. Much of the information comes from family stories. The date of the materials is uncertain, perhaps near the end of the nineteenth century.

Dates: 1890

Orville Stanley and Alice Taylor Cox papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9577
Scope and Contents Includes color slides of images of the Mormon Pavilion at New York City World's Fair in 1964, and other slides labeled "Hiltons, Wests, Wilsons, McMullins, Blackburns, and others," presumably Latter-day Saints who helped staff the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' exhibit, dated October 1965. Also includes an original handwritten and typed transcript of a letter to Fred Whitaker Taylor, John Taylor's son, from L. John Nuttall, John's Taylor's son-in-law, dated approximately...
Dates: approximately 1885-1887; 1964-1965

Jesse Wentworth Crosby letter

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233287264]
Identifier: Vault MSS 216

Margaret Curtis letter to Brigham Young

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233287033]
Identifier: Vault MSS 176
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 13 Nov. 1867, and addressed to Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church. Curtis writes to Young concerning money she owes him for board.

Dates: 1867 November 13

Mark Ardath Dalton Sr. papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239281824]
Identifier: MSS SC 1413
Scope and Contents

Contains a phrenological report for Jesse N. Smith given by O. S. Fowler, dated 1872; a two-page manuscript by Mark Ardeth Dalton relating how he learned of the connection between his grandfather, Jesse N. Smith, and Heber J. Grant, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1918 to 1945, dated 1935; two copies of The Kinsman (vol. 29 no. 3-4) with stories relating to the other materials in the collection, dated 1975.

Dates: 1872-1976