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Kanab (Utah)

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

John Hortt Adams personal history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230328939]
Identifier: MSS SC 2986
Scope and Contents Narrative and photographic images concerning his childhood in Kanab, Utah; attendance at Brigham Young University; living in Hollywood, California; service in the U.S. Navy during World War II; marriage; travels; church service, including a Latter-day Saint mission to Seattle, Washington, 1989-1990; owning and running Grandview Miniature Golf Course in Provo, Utah; and working as accountant at BYU Financial Services. Also contains significant information about his family, including an...
Dates: 1997

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

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

Life history of James Lewis, son of James, son of George

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330711]
Identifier: MSS SC 3106
Scope and Contents Born in Gorhaum, Maine in 1814 to James and Hannah Harding Lewis. Sketch includes the following data; family background in Maine; went to sea for a few years, ended up in Saint Loring, Missouri; conversion to Mormonism, 1841; married Emily Jennson Holman, 1847; called to settle southern Utah, 1850; left Parowan to serve mission to China, 1852; returned from mission, 1854; married Emma Batman, 1877, called to grow cotton in Utah's Dixie; moved to Kanab, 1871; moved to Taylor, Arizona, 1882;...
Dates: undated

Life History of Julius Sylvester Dalley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330190]
Identifier: MSS SC 2958
Scope and Contents

Account of Julius S. Dalley's life in Summit and Kanab, Utah, and elsewhere. Contains diary entries and other information on his mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Eastern States Mission, serving in New York City, 1906-1908. Includes autobiographical writings by Julius, writings by his wife and children, and reproduced pictures and documents. Also includes information on the family of Julius's father, James Dalley.

Dates: 1997

John Steele and Mahonri Moriancumer Steele diaries

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231017549]
Identifier: MSS 7541
Scope and Contents

Collection contains the mission diaries of John and Mahonri M. Steele. Included in the diaries of John are day to day descriptions of his time serving as a Mormon missionary, and serving in the Mormon Battalion. He also gives some family history and autobiographical information about his life prior to the journal. The journals written by Mahonri M. Steele tell about his time as a Mormon missionary to England and Scotland.

Dates: 1840-1893

William Thomas Stewart autobiography and diary

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197233604484]
Identifier: MSS 6638
Scope and Contents In the first 43 pages of his diary, Stewart documents: the settlement of Kanab, Utah; childhood spiritual experiences; the establishment of the United Order in Kanab; interactions with the Navajo; life and work on the range; the death of his first wife, Rachel Hamblin Stewart; his subsequent marriage to Fannie Little; his later plural marriage to Mary Udall; his election as County Prosecuting Attorney in Kane County, Utah; and the death of his second wife, Fannie Little Stewart. Stewart...
Dates: approximately 1883