Pioneers
Found in 771 Collections and/or Records:
Hansen and Broberg family biographies and family records
Biography : Christian Hansen
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Christian Hansen was born in 1820 in Denmark. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Saints and migrated to Utah in 1861. He settled in American Fork and had many adventures in that town.
Biography of Inger Mortensen Hansen
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Inger Mortensen Hansen was born in Denmark in 1826. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1861. He came by handcart to Utah and went to Genoa where he lived in a dugout on the side of a hill. He later settled in American Fork, Utah.
Life history of Martin Hansen
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobiography. Hansen migrated to Utah in 1857 by handcart. He also wrote about the problems of hunger and finding food from 1857 to 1859 when he was in Utah. He settled in American Fork, Utah.
Adelia H. Hardin papers
Handwritten letters and miscellaneous papers. The materials relate to the Patty and Hardin families and include a sixteen-page letter by J. R. Hardin telling about his journey from Missouri to Salt Lake City, Utah. Some of the materials relate to the American Civil War. Many of the items were written in California and Missouri.
Jesse M. Harmon family papers
Jesse Perse Harmon indentures
Handwritten and signed indentures. The items relate to land sales in Pennsylvania before Harmon moved to Nauvoo, Illinois.
Jesse Perse Harmon papers
Photocopies of handwritten and printed letters, notes, military orders, and certificates. The materials relate to the migration of Mormons to Utah, the operations of the Utah militia during the Black Hawk War against Ute Indians, Harmon's Mormon Church activities, and his life in Holden, Utah.
Harold F. Nufer collection of the Lorin Farr papers
The collection primarily consists of research materials (photocopies, manuscripts, etc.) compiled by the Winslow Farr Sr. Family Organization and Amy Oaks Long to write a biography of Lorin Farr. However, two original documents, including a ledger containing family biographical information, are also included.
Charles Alfred Harper diary and biography
Photocopy of a handwritten diary and a biography of Harper. The diary covers the dates from April 7 to August 8, 1847 when Harper came to Utah with one of the earliest Mormon pioneer companies. He worked as a wheelwright. Also included are notes of financial transactions in Holladay, Utah, in 1895.