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Immigration and American Expansion

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Johanna Christina Danielson Cannon personal history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312545]
Identifier: MSS SC 1421
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten personal history. Cannon describes her emigration to Utah, her homesteading experiences there, and her marriage as a plural wife to Angus M. Cannon.

Dates: 1910
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Carpenter family histories

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239283747]
Identifier: MSS SC 1507
Scope and Contents This collection contains separate transcribed copies of the "Carpenter Family." The first document, by J. Hatten Carpenter, describes the origin of the last name "Carpenter." The author begins the family history starting in 1200 in France and England. He then continues with the ancestry of the Carpenter family, who emigrated from England to the United States. The second copy is a sketch biography of Margarett McCullough. The sketch contains a transcript of Erastus Snow Carpenter's letter...
Dates: 1963-1970
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Elvira Egbert Carson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230235308]
Identifier: MSS SC 169
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of an autbiography "as given to H. Carson Healy, a grandson, during the summer of 1901 at Provo Bench (Orem), Utah." Carson tells Healy about joining the Mormon Church in Kentucky, facing persecutions in Missouri, migrating to Utah, and her life in Fairfield, Utah.

Dates: 1901
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

E. V. Carter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 405
Scope and Contents Handwritten record (plus photocopies) of Carter's journey frm Ohio to St. Louis via Wisconsin. ALS's dated Oct. 15, 24, 1845 (plus photocopies) to his wife, Mary Hine Carter, are revised transcripts of diary. Diary entry for November 13 describes a visit to the Nauvoo, Illinois Temple.This is a journal kept by E.V. Carter during his journey from Tallmadge, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri. He wrote of a lecturer, "Mr. Little John," at a Methodist house in White Pigeon Prarie,...
Dates: 1845
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express Company legal records

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230352277]
Identifier: MSS 7429
Abstract

Legal documents regarding the Central Overland and Pikes Peak Express Company during the year 1861.

Dates: 1861 February 20
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of John Chadwick

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337872]
Identifier: MSS 2762
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. The first page of the item is dark and very difficult to read. John Chadwick was born in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, migrated to Utah, and settled in American Fork. He died in 1914.

Dates: 1958
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Thomas Chadwick and Christine Jensen

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337864]
Identifier: MSS 2763
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Thomas Chadwick was born in 1858 in England. He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and he migrated to Utah in 1869. He settled in American Fork, Utah. Christine Jense was born in 1863 in Denmark, and her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1868 and also settled in American Fork. Thomas Chadwick married Christine Jensen in 1886, and they...
Dates: 1958
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Solomon Chamberlain autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230314822]
Identifier: MSS SC 1748
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typed copy of Solomon Chamberlain's autobiography. He describes spiritual experiences before his conversion and talks about prospecting for gold in California.

Dates: 1856
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

David Chamberlin autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230318104]
Identifier: MSS SC 1917
Scope and Contents

One handwritten autobiography by Chamberlin, one handwritten history of the early discoveries and settlement of California condensed from various authors, and miscellaneous items. Chamberlin talks about his youth, his various travels, and his encounters with Native Americans.

Dates: 1853-1889
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John Gorham Chandler letter and news article

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233782]
Identifier: MSS SC 113
Scope and Contents

ALS to his mother in which Chandler tells of troop plans to set out for California during the wars with the Pacific Coast Indians. He describes his clothing, bedding, and tentative itinerary of the journey. The newspaper article announces the departure of the Third Regiment of Artillery for California.

Dates: 1854
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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