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Mormons -- Emigration and immigration

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Sant family biographical sketches

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237049]
Identifier: MSS SC 268
Scope and Contents

Typewritten sketches relating to a Mormon family who emigrated from England in 1861 on the packetship Manchester to America and final settlement in Utah and Idaho.

Dates: Undated

Short sketch of the life of Lydia Thornton Adams : pioneer of American Fork, Utah, 1852

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339001]
Identifier: MSS 2405
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Lydia Thornton was born in 1830 in Canada. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; and to Utah in 1852. She settled in American Fork, Utah, married Joshua Adams, had 10 children, and died in 1901.

Dates: 1934

Short sketch of the life of Thomas Shelley and Charlotte Elsmore : pioneers of American Fork, Utah, 1851

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340520]
Identifier: MSS 2465
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Thomas Shelley was born in England in 1822, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married Charlotte Elsmore, and migrated to Utah in 1851. He worked as a farmer in American Fork and died in 1902. Charlotte Elsmore Shelley was born in 1828 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married Thomas Shelley, and migrated to Utah. She died in 1904. They had eight children.

Dates: 1935

Thompson family biographical sketches

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237098]
Identifier: MSS SC 269
Scope and Contents

Typewritten sketches of Mormon families that emigrated from England and Scotland on the Ship Ellen in 1851 and their subsequent settlement in Utah.

Dates: undated

Heinrich Tönnies collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7544
Scope and Contents

Collection includes 498 photographs taken by Tönnies in Denmark. They are mostly portraits of Mormon missionaries in Denmark and Mormon immigrants from Denmark. There are also three bound booklets written by Sharon Hintze in 2002 entitled "Faith in their faces: 19th centry photographs of Danish Mormons" (with Appendix one and two). Also included is an index for an item level description of all the photographs along with 145 photocopied photographs.

Dates: approximately 1880-1905

William Wadley diary and family history

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349596]
Identifier: MSS 4115
Abstract

Diary of William Wadley covering his LDS mission in England and his family history, 1888-1889.

Dates: 1888-1889

Albert Winkler research papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197227633028]
Identifier: MSS 6052
Abstract

Albert Winkler's research materials printed from microfilm, as well as handwritten biographies of the Paraowan Pioneers, 1790-1909.

Dates: 1790-1909