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Latter Day Saints -- Denmark

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Christian Johnson

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338037]
Identifier: MSS 2808
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Christian Johnson was born in Denmark in 1835, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah. He settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1913.

Dates: 1956

Biography of John Joseph Johnson

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338052]
Identifier: MSS 2803
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. John Joseph Johnson was born in Denmark in 1809. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah by handcart. He later settled in American Fork, Utah. Timpson also writes about members of Johnson's family whom she can remember.

Dates: 1949

Biography of Metta Johnson

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338045]
Identifier: MSS 2804
Scope and Contents

Photocopied from a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Metta Johnson was born in Denmark in 1806 and married Joseph Johnson. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah by handcart. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1896.

Dates: 1958

Leroy Laurits Larsen missionary diary

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331404]
Identifier: MSS SC 2866
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diary kept during his service as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Norway. Tells of his everyday life, missionary work, and transfers. Back of the diary includes a hand copy of a letter written by Leroy's father, N. S. Larsen, detailing his migration from Denmark to Salt Lake City, Utah, with the latter's brother, Hans.

Dates: 1912-1913

Short life sketch of Catherine Ingreberg Neilson Olsen

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340314]
Identifier: MSS 2461
Scope and Contents Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Catherine Ingreberg Neilson was born in 1829 in Denmark. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853 and married Hans Peter Olsen in 1854. She migrated to the United States in the same year and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, in October 1854. Catherine later moved to American Fork, Utah, and later to Carson Valley, Nevada. She later returned to American Fork and died in 1915. Also included are two poems...
Dates: 1935

Oral history interview with Thelma Egertsen Weight

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227651814]
Identifier: MSS 5892
Scope and Contents Contains an interview of Thelma Egertsen Weight by Virginia Poulsen on June 29, 1983. Includes two cassette tapes, handwritten notes, a 40-page typescript, and a 24-page draft of typescript. Thelma talks about her grandparents emigration from Denmark, her father's profession, her education, seeing Rachmaninoff play in the tabernacle, George H. Brimhall's lectures, faculty of Brigham Young University, her teaching at Provo High School, her courtship with her husband, adopting a boy, her...
Dates: 1983

Randers Branch tithing book

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233248787]
Identifier: MSS 7707
Scope and Contents

Contains one book of tithing records of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in Denmark between 1885 and 1889. Includes entries for the branches in Randers and Aarhus.

Dates: 1885-1889