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Paris (Idaho) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred Budge letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322288]
Identifier: MSS SC 2346
Scope and Contents

Typewritten and signed letter addressed to Joseph B. Keeler of Provo, Utah and dated 8 March 1908. Budge writes that it will be hard to state in fifty words what the former president of Brigham Young Academy, Karl G. Maeser, did for him, but he will try.

Dates: 1908 March 8

Paris, Idaho Stake Tabernacle centennial celebration

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339779]
Identifier: MSS 2545
Scope and Contents

This brief volume describes the planning of the Paris, Idaho Stake Tabernacle Centennial Celebration. It also includes several programs from the actual events associated with the celebration.

Dates: 1989

William Wilson Sterrett autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306331]
Identifier: MSS SC 879
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photocopies of the holograph of Sterrett's autobiography and some patriarchal blessings he gave.

Dates: 1897

John U. Stucki journals

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3117
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the typescripts of the journal between the years of 1874-1917. Also contained is an index of the journals by John R. Stucki. The collection contains material on the Swiss and German Mission between the years 1874-1875 and 1888-1890; autobiographical information; and life in Southern Idaho and Northern Utah.

Dates: 1874-1917

A true pioneer story

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230321587]
Identifier: MSS SC 2275
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography with handwritten notations. The item is a biography of Mary Barker Virgin. Mary Virgin was married to George Thompson Virgin in 1852 in England. The couple, joined the Mormon Church, had four children, and Mary migrated with the Mormons to Utah and later to Idaho after George's death. Mary settled in Paris, Idaho where she died at age 92.

Dates: 1984