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Pioneers

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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 768 Collections and/or Records:

Biography : John George Dickerson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341908]
Identifier: MSS 2588
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. John George Dickerson was born in 1859 in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the age of twelve. He migrated to Utah in 1871 and settled in American Fork. He married Ruth Deveraux in 1886 and died in 1929.

Dates: 1944

Biography Joseph Alston

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340819]
Identifier: MSS 2509
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Joseph Alston was born in 1821 in England, and he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1839. He migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he knew Joseph Smith, the first president of the Mormon Church. He migrated to Utah probably in 1850 and died in 1891.

Dates: 1940

Biography : Joseph and Elizabeth Hobson Robinson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340611]
Identifier: MSS 2481
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Joseph Robinson was born in 1827 in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840. Joseph migrated to the United States and married Elizabeth Hobson in 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri. Elizabeth was born in 1830 in England. They came to Utah and lived for a time in Tooele, but they settled in American Fork. Elizabeth died in 1908 and Joseph died in 1917.

Dates: approximately 1935

Biography : Joseph Smith Clements Kirkwood

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341676]
Identifier: MSS 2561
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Joseph Smith Clements Kirkwood was born in 1851 in Scotland. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in the Willie handcart company. The biography is chiefly an account of Joseph's sufferings on the trek. He settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1933.

Dates: approximately 1940

Biography : Kezia Keys Durrant

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339654]
Identifier: MSS 2531
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Kezia Keys was born in 1844 in England. Her family later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1866 and settled in American Fork. She became the third wife of John Durrant in 1867, and she died in 1917.

Dates: 1940

Biography : Lois Russell Harrington

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341130]
Identifier: MSS 2602
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Lois Russell Harrington was born in 1823 in Sparta, New York. She married Leonard Elsworth Harrington in 1840, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1841, moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842, migrated to Utah in 1847, and moved to American Fork in 1850. She died in 1902.

Dates: 1944

Biography : Mary Stoddard Mott

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339803]
Identifier: MSS 2549
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Stoddard was born in England in 1845 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1852. She migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Edward Ellsworth handcart company. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and married Stephen Mott in 1862. She died in 1916.

Dates: approximately 1940

Biography Nicholas T. Silcock and Jane Heath : came to Utah in 1850, Bishop Hunter Co.

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340728]
Identifier: MSS 2495
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Nicholas Thomas Silcock was born in 1819 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migraged to Nauvoo, Illinois, and later to Utah. He died in 1906. Jane Heath was born in 1826 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married Nicholas Silcock, migrated to Utah in 1850, and died in 1902.

Dates: 1935

Biography of Agnes Hunter Householder, pioneer : came to Utah in 1863

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340777]
Identifier: MSS 2490
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Agnes Hunter was born in Scotland in 1859 and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1863 and settled in American Fork. She married in 1877. She ran a boarding house at Sunshine, a mining camp just four miles from Mercur, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1935

A biography of Alexander Williams

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336403]
Identifier: MSS 459
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography. The year of the composition of the item is unknown. Kimball writes that Williams was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1847, had encounters with the Ute Indians, lived as a polygamist, and converted to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Dates: 1950