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Saint George (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Vickers journal

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225562922]
Identifier: MSS 3822
Abstract

The Thomas Vickers journal, 1885-1897 (bulk 1885-1887), includes entries recording his mission experiences, such as appointments, results of meetings, traveling "without purse-or-scrip," individuals contacts, etc. Post-mission entries (1887-1897) document family, work, and life, in Nephi, Utah.

Dates: 1885-1897
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Washington County (Utah) deeds to properties

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230318922]
Identifier: MSS SC 2091
Scope and Contents

Printed and typewritten deeds with handwritten sections. The materials relate to land purchases in Washington County.

Dates: 1898
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Eliza Westover letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230335546]
Identifier: MSS 371
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten letter with a typescript of the item. Westover writes to "Lew" in response to his questions about the first president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith (1805-1844). She outlines her life and tells of her conversion to the LDS Church, her life in Nauvoo, Illinois, the death of Joseph Smith, and her migration to Utah.

Dates: 1916
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Clarissa Harden Wilhelm autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489333]
Identifier: MSS 546
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of an autobiography. Wilhelm writes about her youth in New York, her joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1838, her move to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, and her subsequent migration to Utah. She also tells about her various marriages and her life in Salt Lake City, Spanish Fork, Springville, St. George, and Orderville, Utah. She also talks of living in St. Joseph, Arizona.

Dates: 1888
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

David Orin Woodbury autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230335918]
Identifier: MSS 1236
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript. Woodbury writes about his childhood, his schooling, his military service, his work in the Mormon Church, his business ventures, and his special memories of his parents and children.

Dates: approximately 1970
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Wilford Woodruff letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342716]
Identifier: MSS 818
Scope and Contents This is a collection of photocopies of letters written by Wilford Woodruff and several miscellaneous items. Woodruff signed 14 of the letters as Lewis Allen, a pseudonym used by him during the time he was on the underground, hiding from federal officials. The letters were addressed to Thomas P. Cottam, at that time bishop of the St. George Fourth Ward and a prominent civic and LDS Church leader in St. George, Utah. Also enclosed are two letters to "Grand Pa Cottam" one of which is signed...
Dates: 1887-1889
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Edwin Gordon Woolley autobiography and a history

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232490059]
Identifier: MSS 622
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of an autobiography which includes excerpts from a diary. Woolley writes about his experiences in St. George, Utah, including business matters and Mormon Church assignments. He also gives an account of intercepting a Navajo Indian raiding party in 1869. Also included is a three-page typewritten account of Woolley having a personal visit with David Whitmer, one of the "Three Witnesses" to the Book of Mormon.

Dates: 1874-1896
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

Flora Snow Woolley memoirs

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306174]
Identifier: MSS SC 856
Scope and Contents

This collection is a typescript of memoirs by Flora Snow Woolley which was compiled and illustrated by Julius Woolley Dalley. Flora describes her early life in Salt Lake City, Provo, and St. George, Utah; her life as a polygamous wife and a young mother; her experiences on the "underground" to avoid arrest by federal officials for polygamy; and the rearing and educating of her own and her husband's other wife's children.

Dates: 1976
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Brigham Young letters to Brigham Morris Young

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232538238]
Identifier: MSS 560
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten letters addressed to Young's son, Brigham Morris Young (1854-1931), while serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii. Brigham Young writes about the Church's activities in Utah including the progress on the St. George Temple, Young's inspiration to start the United Order, his trip to St. George, Utah, and numerous conferences and meetings.

Dates: 1873-1874
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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