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Immigration and American Expansion

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Day autobiographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230334069]
Identifier: MSS 1109
Scope and Contents

Handwritten autobiography and a photocopy of the item. Also included is a typescript of an autobiography. The handwritten manuscript is a running account similar to a diary but is seldom broken down into daily entries. Day writes about joining the Mormon Church in England and his migration to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and later to Utah. He lived in Salt Lake Valley, Spanish Fork, and Circle Valley, Utah. He participated in the Salmon River Mission for the Mormon Church in Idaho.

Dates: 1844-1881
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Kathryn L. Edwards Dean collection on the Caughron-Edwards family

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232512415]
Identifier: MSS 6093
Abstract

Collection includes materials relating to the Edwards and Caughron family histories.

Dates: 1861-1969
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Henry DeCamp deeds

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233244885]
Identifier: MSS SC 469
Scope and Contents

Printed deeds with ms. entries for tracts of land purchased by Henry DeCamp in LaPorte, Indiana, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Dubuque, Iowa.

Dates: 1837-1849
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Simon Kenton deposition

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233286779]
Identifier: Vault MSS 141
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed deposition dated 1 Aug. 1814. The item relates to a suit between James Coleman and Richard Henderson concerning ownership of Ruddells Station and other properties in Kentucky.

Dates: 1814 August 1
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Description of experiences had in crossing the plains and mountains in the spring of 1863, settling in the eastern and unorganized portion of Idaho territory, and experiences had in that country in 1863-4

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233291027]
Identifier: Vault MSS 492
Scope and Contents Walker's party left West Point, Iowa, on 8 April 1863, destined for California. They traveled by steamboat and rail to Atchison, Kansas, and from there "in one of Ben Hollidays stage coaches" to Fremont's Orchard. They encountered about sixty Indians. They arrived safely in Denver. Walker went with a wagon train for some "diggings discovered about five hundred miles north of Salt Lake City." They passed a group of Mormons heading back east who told Walker: "We are Mormons: but we are...
Dates: 1863-1864, 1904
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

A diary kept by Howard D. Williams containing a record of the events of a journey across the plains, made by himself and Clark D. Williams from Viroqua, Wisconsin, April 6, 1859 to North San Juan, California, August 12, 1859

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234566]
Identifier: MSS SC 151
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a diary which describes Williams' overland journey from Wisconsin to California, giving daily accounts of weather conditions, miles traveled, and towns visited.

Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Diary on Mormon overland travel

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233641742]
Identifier: MSS 8296
Scope and Contents

Transcription of a diary by an unidentified Mormon pioneer describing an overland journey from Missouri to Utah. Author may have been part of the James Brown Company, and includes mention of a Danish company that may be the Hans Peter Olsen Company. Journal is dated June-September 1854. Transcription is dated 1990. Includes a copy of Emily Christiansen's original transcription dated 1960.

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

Biography : John Dickerson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341890]
Identifier: MSS 2586
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. John Dickerson was born in 1827 in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1854. He married Rugh Smith and had ten children. He migrated to Utah in 1871 and settled in American Fork. After his first wife died, he married Katie Burgess and had two sons by her. He died in 1891.

Dates: 1944
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Don McCarroll Dalton correspondence, 1905-1963

 Series
Identifier: MSS 1059 Series 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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: 1905-1963
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Don McCarroll Dalton papers

Don McCarroll Dalton family papers

 Series
Identifier: MSS 1059 Series 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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 / Don McCarroll Dalton papers

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