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Immigration and American Expansion

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Albert R. Lyman journals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1425
Scope and Contents

Collection includes two sequences of daily journals, his Journal and his Thots as well as an autobiography to 1946.

Dates: 1893-1973
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Hiram Mace journal

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232593415]
Identifier: MSS 8734
Content Description Leather-bound journal kept by Hiram Mace. Journal was likely created in approximately 1860. Includes genealogical information of Mace's posterity, including birth and death dates. Also includes a brief autobiographical sketch of Mace's life from his birth until 1885, including his childhood in upstate New York, conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, experiences in Nauvoo, Illinois, travels to Utah and eventual settlement and life in Fillmore, Utah. Also includes some...
Dates: approximately 1860-1913
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Margaret Walker Macklin

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340868]
Identifier: MSS 2679
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Margaret Walker Macklin was born in England in 1842. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, migrated to Utah about 1868, married Thomas Macklin in 1875, and died 1927.

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

James Harvey Mangum letter

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233286936]
Identifier: Vault MSS 148
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated October 8, 1876, and addressed to "Dear Father and Mother." Mangum writes about the difficulty of living in Clover Valley, Nevada, and states his desire to return to Utah. He also mentions the death of an infant.

Dates: 1876 October 8
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Henry Rice Mann diary

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239282483]
Identifier: MSS SC 1348
Scope and Contents

Typed transcript of part of Henry Rice Mann's diary. Transcript begins June 22, 1849, and ends September 18, 1849. On the entry of August 10, 1849, Mann is 35 years old. The diary recounts his trip across the United States to become a gold panner in California. Mann describes the climate, surrounding nature, the wagon train, camping life, and the prospect of searching for gold in California.

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

Markham family histories

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231042562]
Identifier: MSS 6278
Abstract

The Markham family histories include different family accounts from the Markham family including stories, pedigree charts, articles and photocopied certificates and letters.

Dates: 1822-1988
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Arthur Fowlke Marrott (1858-1901) and Selena Martha Stradling Marrott (1859-1945) – Pioneers of Orem, Utah, and St. Johns, Arizona

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239236406]
Identifier: MSS 8914
Content Description This account of the lives of Arthur and Selena Marrott by Russel Backus draws on a family biography by their daughter, Harriet, while focusing on information from two pocket ledgers that were kept by Arthur. Among other things, Arthur's ledgers identify people in the community with whom the Marrotts cooperated as their farms were being developed on desert land in the area that is now Lindon and Orem, Utah. The paper tells about these settlers and illustrates the extent to which they relied...
Dates: 2016
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Florence Green Marsh personal history

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197235227243]
Identifier: MSS 8166
Content Description

Contains items written by Florence Green Marsh. They tell of her conversion story and voyage to America. Following her coming to America, she experienced harships within her family including the loss of her brother Dan. Her family eventually joined her in America. Materials are dated approximately 1945.

Dates: Approximately 1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Marshall family family history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236983]
Identifier: MSS SC 262
Scope and Contents

Typescripts of personal histories of members of the Marshall family, which include information about their emigration from England to Utah in 1856 and their pioneer journey on the first hand cart company, and poems and songs.

Dates: Date not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Martin Hansen's Grove : an old land mark in American Fork

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523767]
Identifier: MSS 2827
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten history. Timpson writes about a park in American Fork, Utah.

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

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