Latter Day Saints -- Idaho -- History
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Idaho Supreme Court court cases
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.
Life of William Wells Brady
Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography of William Wells Brady. Brady was born in Fairview, Utah and moved to a number of locations to pursue his teaching career.
Calvin Delos McOmber Jr. papers
Hyrum Smith Niebaur diaries and record books
Handwritten diaries and record books relating to Niebaur's activities and finances in Utah and Idaho. Also included are references to family genealogy, records of ordinance work in Mormon temples, and financial receipts.
Oral history interview with Charles Leroy Norton
Photocopied typescript of an interview conducted by Charles Ursenbach from the James Moyle Oral History Program. Norton talks about his youth, his educational background, his missions to Great Britain, his experiences as a farmer and as a sugar factory worker in Idaho. He describes in some detail his life as a Mormon pioneer in Canada and offers his religious interpretations of the events of his life.
Passing years
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The manuscript is a history of the early settling of southern Idaho and northern Utah. Most of the early settlers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Also included are biographies of the author's ancestors including David Jensen. David and his wife, Serena Peterson joined the Mormon Church in 1862 in Denmark. They came to Utah in 1863.
Personal record of August L. Anderson
Photocopy of a typescript of an autobiography. Anderson writes about his youth in Norway and his subsequent life in Blackfoot Idaho, Anaconda, Montana, and Pocatello, Idaho. He also relates the births of his children.
A short history of the Hellewell family
Photocopy of a typewritten history of the Hellewell family. The Hellewells were a Mormon family that settled mainly in Utah and Idaho. Also included are family genealogies. The date of the composition of the item is uncertain.
Miranda C. Stringham autobiography
Photocopies of a typed autobiography by Miranda Campbell Stringham and a newsletter by the Riverview Ward of the Mormon Church in Idaho. Stringham talks about her early years, education, marriage, children, grandchildren, and church assignments. The newsletter is for Stringham's ward and includes a spiritual message, reports events for the coming month, and contains a birthday calendar.