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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 771 Collections and/or Records:

Kane family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 792
Scope and Contents Materials contain the papers of the Kane family of Philadelphia and Kane, Pennsylvania. Includes papers created and collected by John K. Kane and his wife, Jane Duval Kane; and their children, specifically Thomas L. Kane and his wife, Elizabeth Kane. Contains letters to and from several important American political and historical figures, including Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, John Hancock, Andrew Jackson, Horace Greeley, and U.S. Grant. A large portion of the collection also deals with...
Dates: 1690-1982

Kane family personal papers, 1869-1965

 Series
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 7
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence, journals, and other materials from members of the Kane family descendend from Thomas L. and Elizabeth Wood Kane. Includes information the individual family members, as well as relationships between different branches of the family. Materials date from between 1869 and 1965.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1869-1965

Thomas L. Kane pocket diary and correspondence

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 796
Scope and Contents Pocket diary, 1852, 12 x 7.5 cm, one volume, bound, brass-clasped, black with gold lettering, pencil entries and pencil sketches throughout; Letter of Brigham Young to Kane, 15 Dec. 1859, 7 pp., encapsulated; three additional holographic letters: Thomas L. Kane to his aunt, Mrs. Constable, n.d. 1 p.; Kane to Samuel P. Bates, historian of Pennsylvania, 6 April 1867, 2 pp.; letter of Elizabeth W. Kane to her son Elisha, 24 February 1900. 2pp. Also a photocopy of letter of Thomas L. Kane to his...
Dates: 1852-1900

Biography of Ann Julina Thrift King

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340884]
Identifier: MSS 2677
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed biography. Ann Julina Thrift King was born in Missouri in 1843. Her parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. She came to Utah and later settled in American Fork. She married Robert Edison King in 1865, had eight children, and died in 1906.

Dates: 1944

Biography : Margaret C. Kirkwood

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341023]
Identifier: MSS 2562
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Margaret Campbell Kirkwood was born in 1810 in Scotland. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah with the Willie handcart company. The biography is mainly an account of Margaret's ordeal on the trek to Utah. Margaret lost the use of one eye because it was frozen. She died in 1893.

Dates: 1940

Lily Klasner papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1963
Scope and Contents Papers of Lillian “Lily” Casey Klasner, writer, author and rancher from New Mexico. Contains various manuscript drafts (handwritten and typescript) of her book, published posthumously as, "My Girlhood Among Outlaws," edited by Eve Ball, and other manuscripts, poetry, and songs by Klasner. Also includes correspondence, legal documents, and other documents gathered for the purpose of historical research by Klasner, and correspondence related to her career in teaching and writing, political...
Dates: 1867-1972

Newel Knight autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230326529]
Identifier: MSS SC 2769
Scope and Contents

Mimeographed copy of a typed copy of an autobiography. Knight writes about his life and his association with the Mormon Church. He often tells more about Mormon Church history than he does about himself. He was with the Mormons in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois.

Dates: approximately 1847

William Knox diaries

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3773
Scope and Contents

Content includes the typing and transcribing work of Dorothy Jane Larson Bryson, as well as copies of the original diaries of William Knox, 1847-1856.

Dates: 1847-1856

History of Abel Lamb

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230243906]
Identifier: MSS SC 601
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographical sketch of Lamb, a Mormon pioneer and church leader, which tells of his baptism in New York, work as a stake president in Columbus, Missouri, exodus west, settlement in Salt Lake Valley, Utah and calling as a patriarch. Also includes family data.

Dates: undated

Charles Lambert autobiography

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338193]
Identifier: MSS 927
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography. Lambert was born in England; converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1843; moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844; migrated to Utah in 1849; and served on missions in England in 1870 and 1882. He also writes about the "Utah War" and about problems with swarms of crickets.

Dates: 1883