Polygamy -- Arizona
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin F. Johnson family correspondence and ephemera
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9512
Scope and Contents
Letters of the Benjamin F. Johnson family spanning 1864 to 1915. Letters were often written from Latter-day Saint communities within Utah and Arizona, particularly Richfield, Utah, and Mesa, Arizona, and usually to or from women. Includes a small number of ephemeral items such as receipts, a small decorative card with a poem, a small broadside with a song for the Babbitt family reunion in 1909, and a handwritten poem. All items were found in a leather wallet owned by Benjamin F. Johnson,...
Dates:
1864-1915
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Edmund Lovell Ellsworth papers
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232593233]
Identifier: MSS 8686
Scope and Contents
Contains a flash drive with a digital copy of Ellsworth's journal giving an account of his service in England, a journal kept while in prison in Yuma, Arizona, for polygamy, and a brief autobiography. Also includes a digital copy of a short journal and life sketches recorded by Ellsworth's wife, Mary Ann Jones; various manuscripts, photographs and family portraits; a family bible; and Ellsworth Family Organization information. Materials date from 1856 to 1925.
Dates:
1856-1925
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections