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Immigration and American Expansion

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Nelson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325489]
Identifier: MSS SC 2640
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography and a typescript of the item. Nelson writes about his family joining the Mormon Church in Scotland, about migrating to Utah, and about his life in Smithfield, Utah.

Dates: 1934

Price W. Nelson journal and autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3121
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of Price W. Nelson. The account is largely retrospective even though much of it is written like diary entries. Also included is a diary to Nelson dated 5 Aug. 1935. Nelson writes about his birth in California in 1855, his journey to Utah in 1857. He also settled in Franklin, Idaho, in 1859 and moved to Logan, Utah, in 1864. He later moved to Glendale, Utah. He lived in numerous other places in Arizona and...
Dates: approximately 1913-1946

Newspaper articles

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230232644]
Identifier: MSS SC 5
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of newspaper clippings. Dan Croft inteviewed the mayor of Orem, Utah, B. M. Jolley, about the history of Orem. Jolley gave Croft information on the early days of the community.

Dates: 1973

Biographical sketch : Ann Rachel Marsh Nicholes, pioneer of 1853

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339241]
Identifier: MSS SC 3328
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Ann Rachel Marsh was born on the Island of Jersey in 1824 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1853 and settled in American Fork. She died in 1909.

Dates: 1930

John Nielsen personal history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311778]
Identifier: MSS SC 1469
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typed transcript of a personal history. Nielsen describes his life growing up in Denmark, his family's emigration to America, and his experiences and hardships after arriving in Utah.

Dates: 1948

Biography of Niels Nielsen and Karen Marie Pedersen Nielsen

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339233]
Identifier: MSS SC 3329
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Niels Nielsen was born in 1825 in Denmark. Karen Marie Pedersen was born in 1827 also in Denmark. Each joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853, and they married each other in 1854. They migrated to Utah in that same year and settled in American Fork in 1856. Karen died in 1897, and Niels died in 1898.

Dates: 1928

Joseph Bates Noble autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345776]
Identifier: MSS 968
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography. Noble writes about his conversion to the Mormon faith, his missionary work in the Eastern United States and England, his service with Zion's Camp in 1834, and his work as a bishop in Nauvoo, Illinois, and in Winter Quarters, Nebraska.

Dates: 1890

Alfred L. Riggs notes on Ponca and Dakota languages

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233741]
Identifier: MSS SC 106
Scope and Contents

Handwritten volume of Ponca language grammar notes with lists of prepositions, verbs, pronouns, adverbs and articles. Includes comparative lists of words in Ponca and Dakota with only occasional English translations. An appendix at the end of the volume lists Dakota words translated into English.

Dates: 1872

Ephraim H. Nye autobiography and journal

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349752]
Identifier: MSS 4136
Abstract

One bound volume by Ephraim Nye discussing his own life and those of his family's, dated 1882-1896.



Dates: 1845-1920

Vivian Nyman biography of Simeon Adams Dunn

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233603262]
Identifier: MSS 8084
Scope and Contents

Contains one bound book on the life of Simeon Adams Dunn, with histories, pedigree and family group charts, and scanned documents pertaining to the life of Simeon Adams Dunn. Dated circa 2000-2012.

Dates: approximately 2002