Latter Day Saints -- Australia
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Ancestors and descendants of James Gale
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331800]
Identifier: MSS SC 3235
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a printed book. The item includes many family genealogies and biographies of family members. Also included is an autobiography of James Gale (1846-1928) as dictated to Mae McGrath in 1919. Gale was born in Australia and came to the United States with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1853. He lived for a time at San Bernardino, California, and came to Utah where he settled in Beaver. He later moved to Arizona and settle din...
Dates:
1956
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Clarence Marcellus Barker papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197223105948]
Identifier: MSS 2057
Scope and Contents
Includes journals, notebooks, an autograph album, letters, and articles relating to his mission in Australia. Five journals document his missionary activities in Sidney, Tasmania, Adelaide, and Perth, including encounters with RLDS missionaries. Notebooks contain a statistical record of his missionary activities, and missionary references, including notes on polygamy and on the RLDS Church. Autograph album contains messages from missionaries, Church members, and other friends in Australia....
Dates:
1905-1987
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography : Annie Augusta Logie Clark
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341882]
Identifier: MSS 2585
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Annie Augusta Logie was born in 1853 in Australia, and her mother was already a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The family came to Utah in 1856 and settled in Lehi in 1857. They moved to American Fork in 1860. Annie married Lee Clark in 1879, had five children, and died in 1938.
Dates:
1944
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James Humphries Biography
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329622]
Identifier: MSS SC 3094
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of James Humphries, who was born in Bradford on Avon, England, in 1831. He tells about going to Australia in 1850, joining the Mormon Church in 1854, and starting to migrate to Utah in 1855. He writes about his many callings for the Mormon Church. "August 24, 1910. I have been very sick several days. Today I am very sick. It seems my last days has come now. I want to ask our children one and all if I am taken,...
Dates:
1910
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Alice Griffiths Orth personal history
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239138511]
Identifier: MSS SC 1005
Scope and Contents
Autobiographical sketch, 3 pages, written by Alice Griffiths Orth in 1977 and submitted to the Women's History Archives in Provo, Utah. Includes the envelope the letter was mailed in (postmarked in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on December 29, 1977) and a photograph of Alice taken for her passport in 1975 in preparation for a trip to the United States.In the history, Alice describes her life in Australia, including her membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day...
Dates:
approximately 1977
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Alexander H. Smith patriarchal blessing
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308451]
Identifier: MSS SC 1058
Scope and Contents
Patriarchal blessing by patriarch Alexander H. Smith of the Reorganized Mormon Church to James Potter of Wallsend, Australia, on 4 Jan. 1902.
Dates:
1902
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections