Iron County (Utah)
Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Chapman Duncan diary
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239140756]
Identifier: MSS SC 849
Scope and Contents
Contains a handwritten diary kept by Chapman Duncan, written from 1852 to 1861. The volume contains an autobiography, journal entries, school attendance roles, notes about the number of students Duncan taught, and a portion of a constitution and set of bylaws of the original Iron City Mine in Iron County, Utah. In his autobiography, Duncan briefly mentions his service with the Joseph Smith Presidential Campaign in Virginia, his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to...
Dates:
1852-1861
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
In the pioneer group to the Iron Co. Mission, was another great leader, Anson Call, who became a great colonizer
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329770]
Identifier: MSS SC 3079
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm reproduction of a typed manuscript. The item is a biography of Anson Call by an unnamed author. The date of composition is uncertain. Anson Call was born in Fletcher, Franklin County, Vermont on 13 May 1810. Call married Mary Flint and later joined the Mormon Church. "He was closely associated with the Prophet Joseph [Joseph Smith, 1805-1844], and with the saints was driven from his home. He had a great love the the Prophet and did all he could to protect him...
Dates:
1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lorenzo Snow Lyman collection
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230328814]
Identifier: MSS SC 2976
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and certificates of Lorenzo S. Lyman and Lyman family papers. The correspondence deals with 19th and 20th century Utah politics; references to Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, the St. George Temple, and Utah mining and politics; Family History; family activities in various locations (San Bernardino, California and Fillmore and Parowan, Utah); and letters from Francis M. Lyman about being an apostle and travels (a visit to Egypt and Palestine in 1902)....
Dates:
1853-1964
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections