Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Utah -- History -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
George Washington Bean journal
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225536876]
Identifier: MSS 3860
Scope and Contents
Journal contains entries by George Washington Bean from about 1855 to 1878 and includes a short autobiography, transaction records from his business dealings, and personal and family experiences.
Dates:
approximately 1855-1878
Ward E. Pack papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231563963]
Identifier: MSS 449
Abstract
Collection includes a handwritten autobiography and diary written by Ward E. Pack between 1854 and 1876. His accounts include family histories, descriptions of his trek to Utah, his activities in Summit County, Utah, and his experiences on missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii and the Eastern States. Journals also include genealogical information written by his daughter. Also included are letters from John Pack, Ward's father, telling about the migration to...
Dates:
1847-1935
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Ward E. Pack papers
John L. Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 680
Scope and Contents
Contains seven journals of John Lyman Smith, and other autobiographical manuscripts, as wells as a bound typescript volume of an autobiography/journal. The journals include accounts of persecutions in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, pioneering in Utah, Lyman's two missions to Europe, and his service as president of the Swiss-Italian and the Swiss-Italian-German missions. There is also a contemporary account of the cricket-and-seagull episode in Salt Lake in 1848, Lyman's service as a member of...
Dates:
1792-1950; Majority of material found within 1846-1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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John L. Smith papers