Utah -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Catherine Bowles family histories
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312081]
Identifier: MSS SC 1492
Scope and Contents
Typed, photocopied, and bound genealogical information. The item contains a pedigree chart and family histories of Bowles' ancestors.
Dates:
1978
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jesse Bushman oral history project recordings, transcriptions, and records.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9203
Content Description
Contains approximately 48 oral histories on audiotape. Also contains approximately 49 oral history transcriptions. Most transcriptions correspond to a audiotape in the collection, but several audiotapes and transcriptions do not have a match. Most, but not all transciptions have related documentation. All collection materials created and assembled by Jesse Bushman for the purpose of creating his thesis: "A Qualitative Analysis of the Non-LDS Experience in Utah," while working to earn his...
Dates:
1994-1995.
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John and Nancy Jane McCleve biography and Twiss Bermingham diary / compiled by Naomi A. Jensen
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313584]
Identifier: MSS SC 1626
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the biography of John and Nancy Mccleve, compiled by Naomi Asay Anderson Jensen, and a transcript of Twiss Bermingham's diary. The biography occupies 7 pages, compiled June 1972. The typed copy of Twiss Bermingham's diary contains daily accounts of life on the Samuel Curling ship as it crossed the Atlantic, and crossing the plains to Utah. Bermingham was the first clerk of the ship and kept records of the people who emigrated on the ship from England, including the...
Dates:
1972 June; 1856 April-September
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Norma B. Ricketts biography of Thomas and Elizabeth Rhoades
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325885]
Identifier: MSS SC 2722
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten biography of Thomas Rhoades and his wife, Elizabeth. Thomas was a Mormon who lived near Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to California in 1846, participated in the rescue of the Donner-Reed Party, mined for gold in California, came to Utah in 1848, became the first treasurer of Salt Lake City, Utah, found gold in the Uinta Mountains of Utah, and was a polygamist. The material on Elizabeth is very sketchy.
Dates:
1972
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Charles Sansom diaries and an autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3137
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of handwritten diaries and an autobiography. Sansom writes about his early life in England, the death of his father, and his work in a woolen factory. He tells about his migration to Utah and his career as a trombone player in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also writes about the Utah Expedition, 1857-1858. He tells about his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to England from 1873 to 1874. He writes mostly about his activities and those of...
Dates:
1873-1907
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections