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Northwestern States -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Alma Butler diaries

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 790
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries. Butler writes about his daily activities while serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the new Northwestern States.

Dates: 1910-1912

James Ephraim Peterson diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230319623]
Identifier: MSS SC 2150
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a handwritten diary and a letter to Peterson from his wife. Peterson writes about the work he was involved in while in the Northwestern States and gives details of many of his daily experiences.

Dates: 1885-1886

Claude L. White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1817
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diaries, a play script, and a missionary tracting book. The materials relate to White's activities as a missionary for the Mormon Church in the Northwestern States Mission from 1915 to 1917. The diaries are for the years from 1915 to 1916 and for 1963. Most of the correspondence are between White and family members, but some are also with Melvin J. Ballard, a Mormon official who became an apostle in 1919.

Dates: 1915-1963