Latter Day Saints -- Persecutions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Transcription of the Averett Family ledger book
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231046316]
Identifier: MSS 1303
Scope and Contents
Narrative of the history of members of the Averett family, including conversion, activities in Far West and Nauvoo, emigration westward, and settlement and activities in Utah Territory. The transcription was entrusted to P.T. Reilly.
Dates:
1972
Moses Clawson autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1385
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography. Clawson writes about his experiences in the Mormon Church, persecutions he faced as a member of that faith, and his association with the first president of the Mormon Church, Jospeh Smith.
Dates:
1853
Typescript copy of Benjamin F. Johnson letter to George Snow Gibbs
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232578648]
Identifier: MSS 8915
Content Description
Contains a typescript of a 1903 letter from Benjamin F. Johnson, who was in Mesa, Arizona, to George Snow Gibbs in Salt Lake City, Utah, written in response to a request from Gibbs to have Johnson relate some of his early experiences in the Church, particularly with reference to his associations with Joseph Smith. Topics covered by Johnson include plural marriage and its effect on the members of the Church; Joseph Smith's charge to the Twelve Apostles before his death, causes for persecution...
Dates:
1911
The origin of Mormonism and reminiscences of the Mormons in Illinois
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233634]
Identifier: MSS SC 89
Scope and Contents
Prepared typescript of a series of ten articles written by J.H. Sherman which appeared in the Ithaca Daily Journal during April and May, 1886. The articles, decidedly anti-Mormon, tell of Joseph Smith's early life, the Solomon Spaulding manuscript from which Smith supposedly got the idea for the Book of Mormon, the organization of the Latter-day Saint Church, the settlement of the Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois, death of Joseph Smith, mob violence in Illinois, expulsion of the Mormons from...
Dates:
1886