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Immigration and American Expansion

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Biography : Henry Goddard

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341114]
Identifier: MSS 2600
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Goddard was born in 1821 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850, and migrated to Utah in 1855. He lived in Provo, Utah, and died in 1901.

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

The gold rush in 1849

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234665]
Identifier: MSS SC 138
Scope and Contents

Typewritten retrospective account of Brady's overland journey from St. Louis, Missouri to Sacramento, California with his father and brother, John, his experiences with gold mining, and his steamship trip back to Missouri via Nicaraqua. He includes comments about the Donner Party and William Walker in Nicaragua.

Dates: 1914
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

C. C. Goodman paper

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230350891]
Identifier: MSS 5881
Abstract

One paper written by C.C. Goodman discussing the trials of Mormon pioneers, 1890.

Dates: 1890
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Ebeneezer Emory Gore autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230324037]
Identifier: MSS SC 2473
Scope and Contents Typewritten carbon copy of an autobiography with pencilled corrections composed in Lawrence, Kansas in 1904. Gore participated in an overland journey to Jacksonville, Oregon in 1852 and presents many insights into frontier and pioneer life. Gore was familiar with the Mormons in Kirtland, Ohio and in Nauvoo, Illinois. After the Mormons arrived in Kirtland, "the chicken-roosts suffered ... and the herds of stock frequently became reduced." When confronted the Mormons "would acknowledge the...
Dates: 1904
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John C. Graham papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227606362]
Identifier: MSS 3889
Scope and Contents

Collection includes photocopies of two journals by John C. Graham for the period of 1862 to 1874, which describe his work with George Q. Cannon in the offices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Liverpool, England. Also includes newpaper clippings from 1949, and programs for the Provo, Utah theater production of The Curtain from 1885.

Dates: 1862-1949
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John Crosthwaite Graham diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325281]
Identifier: MSS SC 2586
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a handwritten diary. Graham records his daily activities and writes about the Mormons in Liverpool, England including their plans to migrate to Utah.

Dates: 1862-1863
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Grandmother's pioneer stories

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315746]
Identifier: MSS SC 1757
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an embellished pioneer story about Lurena Nebeker, whose husband told her not to take her dishes to Utah. She gave them away, but ended up taking them weset when her husband decided to carry a box belonging to a friend.

Dates: approximately 1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Elizabeth Williams Grant

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338276]
Identifier: MSS 2796
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. This item was "narrated by her daughter, Mary Grant Marshall written by camp historian Laura Logie Timpson." Elizabeth Williams was born in Wales in 1838. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Bunker handcart company. Elizabeth married David Grant in 1856 and became his fourth wife. She had eight children and lived in American Fork, Utah. She later married Alex...
Dates: 1958
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Lizzie Grant

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338268]
Identifier: MSS 2798
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Lizzie Grant was born in 1863 on 25 Dec. in England. Her parents were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They migrated to Utah in 1866, but Lizzie died in Silver Creek, Wyoming, on 13 August 1866.

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

Biographical sketches of the life of William Grant

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230221191]
Identifier: MSS 342
Scope and Contents

Handwritten autobiography and diary. Grant wrote his autobiography in 1882. Subsequently he kept a journal in the same volume. The diary consists mainly of monthly summaries of Grant's activities. Grant writes about his conversion to the Mormon Church in England, his migration to American Fork, Utah, and his activities as a businessman and musician. Grant also comments on Mormon polygamy.

Dates: 1882-1910
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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