Immigration and American Expansion
Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:
Daughters of the Utah Pioneers biographies
Collection contains pioneer biographies, autobiographies, song lyrics and histories of businesses, schools, and buildings collected by Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Printed from microfilm. Contains about 149 biographies and histories collected between 1934 and 1961.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers Concord Heights Camp records
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers Concord Heights Camp records is made up of pioneer histories, photographs, and other papers.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers scrapbooks
Three scrapbooks of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, dated 1948-1950, 1942-1944, and 1947 for the Utah Centennial, 1847-1947.
Davis family biographies
Dawn Curtis collection of Sarah Oakey Sirrine manuscripts, 1851-1974
Contains letters exchanged between members of Sarah Oakey Sirrine's family, both those that preceded her and those that followed. They were written primarily in Idaho and Arizona and date between 1851 and 1974.
Abraham Day III
Photocopy of a typewritten biography of Abraham Day, III (1817-1900). Abraham Day was born in Vermont, joned the Mormon Church, moved to Montrose, Iowa near Nauvoo, Illinois, served in the Mormon Battalion 1846-1847, migrated to Utah, took a second wife, and lived in Springville and Mt. Pleasant, Utah, and served in the Black Hawk War. The date of the composition of this item is uncertain.
Alphonse B. Day diaries
Handwritten diaries in pencil with a typescript of the items. Day writes about his activities and experiences while emigrating to California using wagons pulled by oxen.
Alphonse B. Day diary
Handwritten account of Day's overland journey from the Missouri River to Oregon in 1849. Diary primarily focuses on travelling conditions: grass, water, and condition of horse and ox teams. A number of companions died from cholera and mountain fever. Day intended to travel to California, but "as I think its impossible to go to California with a team," headed to Oregon instead.
Day by day with the Utah pioneers 1847
Scapbooks. The materials are newspaper clippings glued into blank pages of a book entitled: "Day by day with the Utah pioneers 1847." The items were originally published in the newspapers the "Salt Lake Tribune" and the "Deseret News." The clippings refer to the migration of 1847 to Utah and the early settling of that state by Mormon pioneers.
Day family biographies
The collection contains typewritten biographies of Joseph Smith Day and Charlotte Katherine Mellon Day. The dates for the composition of these items are unknown. There is a letter addressed to Geneva, dated March 27, 1936.