Abstract

Microfilmed diaries (1886-1958), correspondence, newsclippings, and ephemera (advertisements, programs, and a prohibition poster). Some letters include correspondence with Mormon leaders Francis M. Lyman, Heber J. Grant, and Charles W. Penrose. The diaries concern his missions for the Mormon Church in England, and life in Loa, Freemont, and Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten diary. Farrell served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in England. He writes about his daily activities on this assignment.

Scope and Contents Materials include a handwritten diary that was kept from 1845 to 1854, part of which was written in Pitman shorthand. The diary also includes a brief autobiographical sketch on Halliday from his birth up to 1845. Also includes a family record book for George Halliday's family, which includes a short handwritten autobiography. A volume with a typed version of the short autobiography and handwritten transcriptions of the Pitman shorthand sections of the diary are also included. Dated...

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Handwritten autobiography with a photocopy of the item. The item was written as an autobiography with yearly summaries of activities. Hayes migrated to Utah in 1862 and lived in Spanish Fork, Utah, during the Black Hawk War with the Ute Indians. Hayes was a Mormon polygamist, served on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England, and lived in numerous places and had numerous occupations in Utah.

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Collection contains a variety of documents related to the Haynie family, including Haynie family correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, journals, ephemera, and related family history publications.

Scope and Contents Contains chronologies of John Horne Miles and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, calling cards, wallpaper maps, copy of the 1880 census, Church data, Post Office London Commercial directories, and courthouse records from England and Idaho; photocopies of Miles' Brigham Young Academy records, histories of the Miles family, Wilma Madsen research and writings, photographs of the Miles family, Miles' correspondence, copies and typescripts of Miles' patriarchal blessings (5), and...

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Interview typescripts and resulting essays by Henry Landon Miles: works on J. H. Miles, George E. Miles, Ezra Weekes, LaRue Miles Elison, Maurice Jarvis Miles, and Richard Miles. Dated 1962-1993.

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Copies of various biographical writings on John Horne Miles, written by his great-grandson, Henry Landon Miles, as well as an index to the collection created by the same; a copy of Robert Joseph Dwyer's dissertation, "The Gentile Comes to Utah: A Study in Religious and Social Conflict (1862-1890)"; and a bound family history temple records book. Dated 1862-2001.

Scope and Contents Documents related to John Horne Miles' polygamy trial, including legal documents, photocopies of The Deseret Evening News Report and Commentary (and of the Salt Lake Daily Herald Report and Commentary) on the trial of John Horne Miles, typescripts of articles from the Salt Lake Daily Herald and Daily Tribune, photocopies from the Documentary History of the Church (trial proceedings as recorded by the Church), genealogy reports, and typescripts of Henry Landon Miles's research on J.H. Miles....

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Research correspondence pertaining to John Horne Miles. The information in the following folders relates to Henry Landon Miles' research on John Horne Miles through correspondence. Dated 1992-1998, and email correspondence, 1997-1998.