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Pioneers

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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 768 Collections and/or Records:

Biography William Smith Robinson, pioneer : came to Utah Oct. 28, 1849 in Ezra T. Benson Company

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340751]
Identifier: MSS 2492
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed biography. William Smith Robinson was born in 1840 in England and died in 1936. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, went to Nauvoo, Illiinois, and migrated to Utah in 1849. Most of the biography is a word-for-word transcription of interviews of Robinson by Seastrand. Robinson talks about coming to Utah and about his life in American Fork.

Dates: 1935

Abner Blackburn diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233485]
Identifier: MSS SC 43
Scope and Contents

Typescript of diary which gives accounts of the Mormon experiences in Missouri, frontier and pioneer life, Indian customs and warfare, and gold-digging during the California gold rush of 1849.

Dates: 1827-1851

Orley Dwight Bliss autobiography and diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 615
Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography and diary. Account is retrospective until 1864, when Bliss writes short daily entries about his journey from Salt Lake City to Nebraska by ox team to help gather the poor to Utah. On the return trip to Utah, Bliss describes weather conditions, daily camping locations and mileage, encounters with Indian tribes, and more than twenty deaths from cholera. Bliss immigrated to Utah at age 8 and participated in the Utah War. Several pages of family genealogy are included...
Dates: 1864-1865

John A. Blythe journal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305325]
Identifier: MSS SC 780
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typescript. Describes his trip from Salt Lake City to the site of Joseph City and daily life in the United Order in that town. The diary also discusses the author's departure on a supply trip to Salt Lake City and concludes with his arrival in St. George, Utah en route.

A one-page autobiographical sketch entitled "History of John A. Blythe, From his birth to Feb. 3rd, 1876" is also included.

Dates: 1876-1877

Biography : Henry Boley and wives Barbara Hart and Mary Anderson came to Utah 1850

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341775]
Identifier: MSS 2579
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Henry Boley and Barbara Hart were born in Berlin, Germany. Henry was born in 1795 and Barbara was born in 1793. They married and later came to Pennsylvania where they joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and migrated to Utah in 1850. They finally settled in American Fork. After the death of Barbara, Henry married Mary Anderson. Dated 1944.

Dates: 1944

Biography : Henry Davis Boley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341742]
Identifier: MSS 2582
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Henry Davis Boley was born in 1850 in Iowa and came to Utah in the same year with his parents who were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He settled in American Fork, Utah, and married Melissa Chipman in 1873. He died in 1910.

Dates: 1944

Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville letter

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231566701]
Identifier: Vault MSS 548
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter. This note was written on November 6, 1856 in Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory and sent to Max Lavish. Bonneville requests that he be allowed to put a sign on Lavish's store.

Dates: 1856 November 6

The book of life of Hugh Moon

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342922]
Identifier: MSS 751
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography. Moon was born in Lancashire, England, converted to Mormonism with his parents, came to Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1848, moved to St. George, Utah, in 1861, and relocated to Farmington, Utah, in 1866.

Dates: 1869

Biography : Mary Ann Able Bourne

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339613]
Identifier: MSS 2527
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Mary Ann Able Bourne was born in England in 1853. Her families were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they migrated to Utah in 1863, and arrived on 8 Oct. She married Elijah Bourne in 1871, and she lived in American Fork, Utah. She died in 1931.

Dates: 1940

Boyce family family history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236991]
Identifier: MSS SC 261
Scope and Contents

Typescript of personal histories, diary excerpts, testimonies and patriarchal blessings.

Dates: Date not identified