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Salt Lake City (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:

Phoebe K. Woodbury letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489135]
Identifier: MSS 890
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters, lists of ancestors, and patriarchal blessings. Most of the letters were sent to family members and tell of her life in Salt Lake City.

Dates: 1851-1867
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Edwin Dilworth Woolley receipts

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338110]
Identifier: MSS 953
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of five small receipts photocopied on one page. Each item is signed and states: "Good to the Bearer for one load of Red Beets."

Dates: 1857
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Edwin Gordon Woolley autobiography and diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337153]
Identifier: MSS 490
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a typescript. Woolley writes about his early life in an autobiography and then continues his story in a diary. The journal has many gaps. He writes about his militia activities and his enconters with Paiute Indians early in his life. Wolley spent much of his adult life in St. George, Utah. He also spent time in Salt Lake City, Utah, on business and on political activities. Woolley served as a justice the peace, a city recorder, a member of a Utah constitutional convention,...
Dates: 1869-1896
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Yeates journals and record book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231044436]
Identifier: MSS 2186
Scope and Contents

The collection containing journals and a record book has been organized chronologically into one box. There are four journals and one record book.

Dates: 1853-1861
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Brigham Young letter

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233283644]
Identifier: Vault MSS 89
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 2 Sept. 1856, addressed to a Sister Tufts, and written in Salt Lake City, Utah. Young gives Tufts advice on the renting of her house.

Dates: 1856 Deptember 2
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Brigham Young letter to John R. Young

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 780
Scope and Contents Material contains a handwritten and signed letter dated March 1, 1857, addressed to John R. Young in Honolulu, Hawaii. The item was composed in Salt Lake City, Utah. Brigham Young encourages John, his nephew, and his fellow missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii by making comparisons between the "quiet and purity that prevail in Utah" and the "gross darkness" that covers the other people of the Earth. He comments on the missionary work of the Church in...
Dates: 1857 March 1
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Brigham Young letter to Samuel W. Richards

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233294708]
Identifier: Vault MSS 779
Scope and Contents Handwritten and signed letter dated 27 Feb. 1853 and addressed to Samuel W. Richards in Liverpool, England. The item was composed in Salt Lake City, Utah. Young reports on the condition of Utah at the end of a severe winter during which the Utahns received no mail from outside the territory. Young also writes about the sugar industry in Utah, the progress on buildings and machinery of the Deseret Manufacturing Company, the excavations on the foundation of the Salt Lake Temple, the...
Dates: 1853 February 27
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Brigham Young resolution

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2112
Scope and Contents

Handwritten copybook copy of a resolution. The item was signed by Brigham Young and W. H. Hopper. The document states that the seat of government in Utah should be moved from Fillmore to Salt Lake City due to a lack of facilities in Fillmore.

Dates: 1856
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Young family papers, 1872-1956

 Series
Identifier: MSS 4 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence of the Young family, mainly between Mahonri Mackintosh Young and others. Also contains legal documents, a scrapbook, drafts, and other writings. Dated 1872 to 1956.

Dates: 1872-1956
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Mahonri M. Young papers

John M. Young papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1803
Scope and Contents

Account books, receipts, correspondence, certificates, newspaper clippings, genealogies, autograph book, land deeds and indetures, legal writs, photographs, and patriarchal blessings. The materials relate to business and legal activities. Also included are anti-Mormon newspaper clippings from England. Many of the items were produced by Young's sister, Lydia Young Merrill.

Dates: 1860-1933
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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