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Pioneers

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Found in 771 Collections and/or Records:

J. Taylor Hollist collection on Wilford C. Wood

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6760
Scope and Contents Collection includes research done by J. Taylor Hollist on Wilford C. Wood. It includes photocopies and typed summaries of information he collected from the Wilford Wood Museum in Bountiful, Utah, and the LDS Church Archives in Salt Lake City, Utah. The information describes how the Church came to own many of its associated historical sites. The collection also includes a typewritten biography of Wilford C. Wood written by A. James Faulkner in 2014, and an index and endnotes to this book...
Dates: 1800-2015
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James Holt autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230235910]
Identifier: MSS SC 190
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography. Holt writes about his childhood, conversion to the Mormon Church, mission for that faith in Tennessee, and migration to Salt Lake City, Utah. He also tells about the confusion in the Mormon Church after the death of its first president, Joseph Smith.

Dates: 1881
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James Holt autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312776]
Identifier: MSS SC 1451
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typescript of an autobiography by James Holt (1804-1894). Holt talks about his early years, conversion to the Mormon Church, faith promoting experiences while preaching Mormon doctrine, hardships endured due to persecution, and traveling west to the Rocky Mountains.

Dates: 1881
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

George Housley account

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312917]
Identifier: MSS SC 1537
Scope and Contents

Handwritten account of George Housley's experiences with the Martin handcart company. Housley tells of hunger, death due to exposure and starvation, rationing of food, and relief sent to them from Salt Lake City to enable them to continue on with their journey.

Dates: 1856
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : Hyrum Huggard

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339720]
Identifier: MSS 2539
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Huggard was born in 1856 in Iowa. His family were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they left for Utah three weeks after Hyrum was born. They later moved to American Fork, Utah. He married and had seven children and died in 1939.

Dates: 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James Humphries Biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329622]
Identifier: MSS SC 3094
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of James Humphries, who was born in Bradford on Avon, England, in 1831. He tells about going to Australia in 1850, joining the Mormon Church in 1854, and starting to migrate to Utah in 1855. He writes about his many callings for the Mormon Church. "August 24, 1910. I have been very sick several days. Today I am very sick. It seems my last days has come now. I want to ask our children one and all if I am taken,...
Dates: 1910
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Huntington Chapter collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1271
Abstract

Collection is comprised of typewritten biographies of residents of Huntington, Utah. Also included are several documents pertaining to the history of Huntington, Utah.

Dates: 1900-1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

[Illustrations for E. N. Wilson's The white Indian boy (Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y. : World Book Co., 1919)]

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2901
Dates: 1919
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

In memory of

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340702]
Identifier: MSS 2502
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten poem. Ingersoll praises pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dates: 1939
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

In the pioneer group to the Iron Co. Mission, was another great leader, Anson Call, who became a great colonizer

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329770]
Identifier: MSS SC 3079
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm reproduction of a typed manuscript. The item is a biography of Anson Call by an unnamed author. The date of composition is uncertain. Anson Call was born in Fletcher, Franklin County, Vermont on 13 May 1810. Call married Mary Flint and later joined the Mormon Church. "He was closely associated with the Prophet Joseph [Joseph Smith, 1805-1844], and with the saints was driven from his home. He had a great love the the Prophet and did all he could to protect him...
Dates: 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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