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Missions and Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 1167 Collections and/or Records:

Willard L. and Jennie Hill Leavitt Smith collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2260
Scope and Contents The collection, containing mission diaries, World War I army diary, family histories, and bound copies of autobiographies and family histories, has been organized by (1) mission diaries of Willard and Jennie Smith; (2) family histories; and (3) bound copies. The collection contains material on the First Tongan Mission after it was separated from the Samoan Mission; Samoan Mission; genealogy of the Willard L. Smith family and the Jennie Hill Leavitt family; Haun's Mill Massacre; and personal...
Dates: 1915-1918

Winslow Farr and Emily Whitney Smith papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232573920]
Identifier: MSS 8517
Content Description

Contains personal papers of Winslow Smith, brother of George Albert Smith, and his wife Emily Whitney Smith. Includes family correspondence, cards, articles, newspapers and newspaper clippings. Also contains a scrapbook of newspaper articles pertaining to events during Winslow's mission presidency for the LDS church in the Northern States mission from 1919-1923 as well as various poems by family members. Materials dated 1908-1982.

Dates: 1908-1982

A. O. Smoot papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489648]
Identifier: MSS 574
Scope and Contents Photocopies of handwritten and printed certificates, letters of appointment, letters, an invitation, and a patriarchal blessing. The materials include a missionary recommendation dated 1851 when Smoot was called on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Britain; a patriarchal blessing from Joseph Smith, Sr., the father of the first president of the Church, Joseph Smith, Jr.; two appointments as an agent for the Perpetual Emigration Fund for the Church; a letter...
Dates: 1837-1892

Abraham Owen Smoot III mission papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9253
Scope and Contents

Contains diaries and other materials related to Smoot's service in the Southern States Mission from 1899-1901. Also includes a letter from Jeannine Madsen Beck with notes about Smoot's mission. Dated 1899-1901.

Dates: 1899-1901

Brigham Smoot family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3315
Scope and Contents

Collection contains journals, letters, transcripts, and other materials produced by members of the Smoot family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The materials document the missionary service of Brigham Smoot in Samoa and Tonga, the missionary service of Gilbert Van Schoonhoven, the military service of Roland Nesbit Smoot during World War II, and various family events and issues that were occuring at the time. Dated 1866 to approximately 1949.

Dates: 1866-approximately 1949

Isaac A. Smoot papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 416
Scope and Contents

Typewritten diary, correspondence, certificates, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, photographs, and tributes. The diary was kept from 1953 to 1957 while Smoot was serving as president of the Northern States Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The other materials relate to the function of the postal service in Utah and to LDS Church matters.

Dates: 1934-1957

M. LaRue Sneff papers

 Collection — Carton 1: [Barcode: 31197233244596]
Identifier: MSS 3264
Abstract

The M. LaRue Sneff papers contain the papers of LaRue Sneff, mostly from her mission to London in the 1980’s, and contain some material regarding the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles.

Dates: 1957-2000

Edward H. Snow mission journal

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7411
Abstract

Collection contains the missionary journal of Edward H. Snow while he served in the Southern States Mission, 18 March 1887 to 14 December 1887.

Dates: 1887

Edward Hunter Snow papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2051
Scope and Contents This collection includes family correspondence, autobiographical and biographical material of Edward H. Snow, journals, notebooks, documents, and miscellaneous papers. There are also newspaper clippings and published materials about Snow, as well as several photographs of Snow family members. The correspondence is largely from Snow to his wife, Hannah, and was written at the time of Snow's mission to the Southern States in the 1880's. There are also letters from Snow's father, Erastus...
Dates: approximately 1865-1993

Frank Snow letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232501178]
Identifier: MSS 1646
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters. The collection consists primarily of letters written by Frank Snow to his wife, Effie Mae Harrison Snow, and family while he was serving as a missionary for the Mormon Church in Mississippi from 1897 to 1899. The collection contains thirty-nine letters to Frank's wife and four pages from letters. Miscellaneous items include: a missionary blessing by George Teasdale, letters by other persons, and a poem. The materials largely document Snow's missionary experience.

Dates: 1897-1899