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Latter Day Saints -- Idaho -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Zina Alberta Allen Andrus autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230317064]
Identifier: MSS SC 1906
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of Zina's autobiographical notes as compiled by her son Hyrum Leslie Andrus in 1971. Zina talks about her life in Cache Valley, Utah and in Idaho.

Dates: 1941

J. D. Bowen postcards received

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2246
Scope and Contents

Handwritten postcards addressed to J. D. Bowen in Malad, Idaho. The items report on the attendence of students to Mormon seminary classes in various towns in Idaho.

Dates: 1922-1923

Calvin Delos McOmber career papers, 1954-1980

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6951 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Consists of papers regarding McOmber's career both as a seminary and institute teacher, and as a politician, such as letters, photographs, and programs. There are also papers from the time he served as temple president, such as sealing records, and in the stake presidency. Dated 1954-1980.

Dates: 1954-1980

Israel Justus Clark autobiography and diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231045789]
Identifier: MSS 1219
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of a diary and an autobiography. Clark's diary covers the years from 1855 to 1857 when Clark served as a missionary to the Indians in the Salmon River Mission. Clark's autbiography tells about his life in Logan and Clarkston, Utah, and his contacts with Indians.

Dates: 1855-1878

John T. Dorcheus memoirs

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1879
Scope and Contents

Handwritten autobiography, 75 pages of John Nicolai Thueson Dorcheus. Also included are typed copies of patriarchal blessings of Dorcheus family members.

Dates: 1911

Gregg family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230217611]
Identifier: MSS 1754
Scope and Contents

Genealogies, correspondence, histories, biographies, and miscellaneous items. Also included is a 430-page, typed book with handwritten corrections by Cleo Grigg Johnson entitled: "Five Generations of Mormonism: a Grigg family genealogy embracing the Ancestry, Life and Descendants of Dr. Anderson Irvin Grigg." The materials relate to the Grigg family of Utah and Idaho.

Dates: 1956-1977

Carl Otto Holm papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1894
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries, autobiographies, and a ledger. Also included are typescripts of some of the items. Holm writes about his life in Idaho, his mission for the Mormon Church in the Western States, his excommunication from the Mormon Church over a dissagreement on polygamy, and his family. With the materials are diaries of Holm's wife Victorina Holm in Sweden.

Dates: 1898-1950

William H. Homer research papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231566099]
Identifier: MSS 825
Scope and Contents

Collection includes handwritten and typewritten research notes, articles, genealogies, diaries, and biographies. Also included is Homer family correspondence. The family members lived in Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. The notes relate to Homer's research on Martin Harris (1783-1875). Also included is a diary Homer's father, William Harrison Homer, Sr., kept while he was on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England from 1867 to 1868.

Dates: 1867-1965

Ardelia Narcissus George Hutchinson autobiography and genealogy

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325935]
Identifier: MSS SC 2727
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography and family genealogy. Hutchinson was born and raised in Florida, remembers seeing the veterans of the American Civil War return, talks about her married life, and writes her move to Utah and later to Idaho.

Dates: approximately 1925

Idaho Supreme Court court cases

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230323476]
Identifier: MSS SC 2430
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten and typewritten court records. The items document court cases against Mormons in Idaho. Most of these materials deal with how the Idaho court system treated Mormons in relation to their beliefs on polygamy and on other Mormon Church related doctrines and practices.

Dates: 1889