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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 755 Collections and/or Records:

Doris Thompson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337807]
Identifier: MSS 2718
Scope and Contents

Typed short paragraph states that Doris Thompson was indeed a nurse during World War II.

Dates: 2001

Emily Lydia Snyder Thompson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349463]
Identifier: MSS 4135
Scope and Contents

Emily Lydia Snyder Thompson writes about her immigration to Utah in 1848, her father taking the family to California in 1850, her father starting a boarding house, a flood, being threatened by Indians, food shortages, following Brigham Young's counsel and abandoning her home in 1858, her husband's call to go to Sanpete in 1866, the Black Hawk War and other topics.

Dates: 1920

Dean S. and Lu Jean Robinson Thornock correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232560315]
Identifier: MSS 8830
Scope and Contents

Includes handwritten letters written by Dean Thornock to his wife Lu Jean Robinson Thornock. Each of these writings were written to LuJean (who lived in various locations including California, Idaho, and Montana) from his time in the Philippines during World War II. Also includes a birthday and Christmas card for her. Materials dated 1944-1945.

Dates: 1944-1945

Tiger Jack

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1589
Scope and Contents

Printer's proofs, a rough draft, and newsletters. These include a printer's proof of "Tiger Jack" and a photocopy of printer's proofs with handwritten corrections superimposed on each. Also included is a typewritten rough draft of "Division Commander: Study of a leader, 'P' Wood and the 4th Armored Division," and newsletters (1973-1974) describing the history of the division during World War II.

Dates: 1979

John Harvey Tippets World War I correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8497
Content Description

Collection contains correspondences between John Harvey Tippets and Irene Smith throughout World War I documenting their lives and pursuits during the war as well as uniform patches. Also includes documents from World War II. Materials date from 1918-1919 and 1935-1947.

Dates: 1918-1919; 1935-1947

To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233289831]
Identifier: Vault MSS 406
Scope and Contents

Handwritten copy of a document issued and signed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison dated 21 Aug. 1801. Jefferson, as president of the United States, grants land in Ohio to soldiers of the Virginia Line.

Dates: 1801

To Japan with encouragement and hope

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523031]
Identifier: MSS SC 3060
Scope and Contents

Jacobsen writes about being held in captivity by the Japanese for three and one-half years in the Philippines and Japan during World War II. Comments on the strength that he derived from his belief in the Mormon Church and in his family.

Dates: 2000

Barbara Toomer autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341288]
Identifier: MSS 2620
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Toomer was born in 1929 and went into nursing. She served as a nurse at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1955. She married Ross Toomer in 1953.

Dates: 2000

Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert pay voucher

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230324144]
Identifier: MSS SC 2484
Scope and Contents

Printed, handwritten, and signed pay voucher dated 28 Oct. 1858. The item documents the pay Torbert received while serving as a second lieutenant of the Fifth United States Infantry stationed at Camp Floyd, Utah.

Dates: 1858 October 28

David B. Tower diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 992
Scope and Contents

One handwritten, bound journal with photocopy and typescript. Tower's record gives the views of one enlisted man in the War with Mexico. He was not involved in battle but presents an account of marching from Veracruz to Mexico City. He also describes the various areas he visited. Tower spent three months in a military hospital and later returned to the United States.

Dates: 1847-1857