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Immigration and American Expansion

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Edson Whipple diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 691
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typescripts of diaries and biographies of Whipple. The first part of his diary tells the story of his early life including living in Nauvoo, Illinois. Includes six items, with content dating from between 1842 and 1851.

Dates: 1842-1851
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Nelson Wheeler Whipple diaries

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233444]
Identifier: MSS SC 38
Scope and Contents

Two different typescripts of the same diary kept by Whipple: one prepared by Phyllis Clayton Pettit, the other by Anor Whipple. The diary gives genealogical data about Nelson Whipple's ancestors and tells of his early experiences in the Latter-day Saint Church, his move to Nauvoo, Illinois, his journey across the Plains to Utah and his life there.

Dates: 1863-1867
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Willard Whipple Sr., March 16, 1858-April 15, 1941

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230241991]
Identifier: MSS SC 509
Scope and Contents

Contains the life sketch of a Mormon colonizer of Snowflake, Arizona, genealogical information and a copy of journal entries, 1880-1941.

Dates: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Whirl around the world : a trip taken by Nellie Harper and Myrtle Goddard

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7255
Scope and Contents Collection includes a bound photocopy of Nellie Harper's 1931 journal and scrapbook of her "around the world" trip. Extended and thoughtful typewritten journal entries, with photographs and related ephemera, document her experiences with her traveling companion, Myrtle Goddard, as they traveled by ship, rail, and bus from the United States to Japan, China, the Philippines, Singapore-Penang, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Wales, and the United States. ...
Dates: 1931-2009
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Short life sketch of John S. Whilte, Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331149]
Identifier: MSS SC 3204
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typescript of a microfilm copy. The collection is a biography of John S. White and Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White. "John S. White Sen., member of Company C. Iowa Volunteers (Mormon Batallion) in Mexican War, 1846, Utah Pioneer." "Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White, member of Grant's Company of Utah Pioneers." The couple lived in Farmington, Utah.

Dates: 1927
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Samuel Dennis White

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230242056]
Identifier: MSS SC 520
Scope and Contents

The collection includes a sketch of White's life and comments about his parents.

Dates: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Clarissa Alger Whitney : wife of Francis Tuft Whitney, daughter of Samuel and Clarissa Hancock Alger

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329804]
Identifier: MSS SC 3084
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm of a typewritten manuscript. The item is a biography of Clarissa Alger Whitney by an unknown author. The date of composition is uncertain. Clarissa was born on 2 June 1830 in "The East and grew up in the environment of danger, mobbings, journeys attendant to the removal of the Saints from Nauvoo [Illinois], the Morley and Hancock settlements, Winter Quarters [Nebraska], and the crossing of the Great American desert to the Great Salt Lake Valley." One of her...
Dates: approximately 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

History of Sarah Elizabeth Gurr Whitney

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329788]
Identifier: MSS SC 3086
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten document. The item is a biography of Sarah Elizabeth Gurr Whitney. Sarah's earliest memories were when she was on board the Janiford, a ship sailing from Sidney, Australia, to San Francisco, California. The journey took 103 days. She came with the "Australian Company" to Parowan, Utah, late in 1857. "Sarah E. Gurr was born in Sidney Australia, February 13, 1855 and was only two years old when she arrived in Parowan, Utah." At age fourteen "she...
Dates: 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James Whittaker diaries

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325158]
Identifier: MSS SC 2582
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten diaries, newspaper clippings, and a biography. Some of the diaries were kept in the pitman form of shorthand. Whittaker made two journeys from England to the United States, once in 1842 and again in 1851. He kept diaries of these trips and of crossing the continent to Utah in 1851. Also included is a biography of Whittaker by Charlotte Chatterly Perkins Jones.

Dates: 1842-1880
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Eli Wiggill autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 9137
Content Description Four-volume handwritten autobiography of Eli Wiggill. Includes an account of the emigration from England of the settlers of South Africa, the wars and events of South Africa, the arrival of missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa, immigration to the United States and travel on the Mormon Trail, the diamond works in South Africa, and an account of familial events in Utah. The record was created by Wiggill in 1883, one year prior to his death. Also...
Dates: 1883
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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