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Immigration and American Expansion

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Mary Jensen Cunningham

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338391]
Identifier: MSS 2792
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Jensen was born in Denmark in 1865. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah 1868. Her family settled in American Fork. She married James Cunningham in 1887 and died in 1939.

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

Joseph Curtis diaries

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331719]
Identifier: MSS SC 3245
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of handwritten diaries. Curtis also writes about his early life. He was born in Pennsylvania and joined the Mormon Church in 1833. He lived in Missouri and told about the persecution of Mormons there. He later lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, and served on two missions at that time. He came to Utah in 1848 and later settled in Utah Valley, Utah. Curtis was involved in numerous activities including defending Utah from the Utah Expedition in 1858.

Dates: 1836-1858
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Cyrena Dustin Merrill autobiography

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSSSC2180
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Daguerreotype presumed to be Aphek Woodruff

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239279505]
Identifier: MSS 9043
Scope and Contents

A cased daguerreotype showing the portrait of a man presumed to be Aphek Woodruff. Approximately 1840-1850.

Dates: approximately 1840-1850
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Life of Emma Wright Dalley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329846]
Identifier: MSS SC 3088
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed manuscript. The item is a biography of Emma Wright Dalley, "by her daughter, Mary E. Hulet and her granddaughter, Mary H. Coburn" on an unspecified date. "My mother, Emma Wright Dalley, was born in Hull, Yorkshire England, August 19, 1833." "When mother was fifteen, the family having joined the Latter-Day Saint Church some time before emigrated to America." She married James Dalley on 16 August 1850, "just three days before my mother's...
Dates: approximately 1910
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James Dalley biography

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230351048]
Identifier: MSS 5907
Abstract

A biography of James Dalley about his early life.

Dates: 1821-1905
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Don McCarroll Dalton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1059
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, articles, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and certificates. The correspondents include various leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dalton's mother, and other friends and associates. The diaries cover the time when Dalton served on a mission for the Church in the Central States from 1914 to 1916, when he was with the United States armed forces in France from 1918 to 1919, and when he served as a mission in South Africa from 1929 to 1935....
Dates: 1906-1965
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Dalton family diaries

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306067]
Identifier: MSS SC 837
Scope and Contents The collection includes copies of the diaries of Charles Dalton (1810-1891) and John Luther Dalton (1843- ). Charles was an early convert to the Mormon Church, lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, and was an early pioneer to Utah. His diary is a fifteen-page typescript covering the years 1855 to 1858 during which he served a Mormon Church mission to the Indians of Idaho. He describes some contact with the Bannock and Nez Perce Indians, but most of the entries are short and relate to the repairs...
Dates: 1890-1974
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Horne Dame diaries

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342724]
Identifier: MSS 820
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copies of personal diaries by Dame, kept from 1854 to 1855. Entries are short and mainly relate to Dame's various activities. Also included is the "Journal of Southern Exploring Company," an expedition led by Dame to areas of Iron County, Utah, to find suitable locations for Mormon settlements in 1858. Diary lists the members of the expedition. Dame describes the activities of the group including the surveying of lots and the planting of crops.

Dates: 1854-1858
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : Charlotte Rudland Dansie

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339647]
Identifier: MSS 2530
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Charlotte Rudland was born in England 1829. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to the United States in 1862. While on the way to Utah, she died in child birth at Pacific Springs, Wyoming, on 21 September 1862.

Dates: 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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