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Pioneers

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Found in 771 Collections and/or Records:

Henry Lunt diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329903]
Identifier: MSS SC 3046
Scope and Contents

Typed copy of a diary of Henry Lunt who served as "Assistant Clerk of the company of original pioneers to Parowan, Utah." Lunt records the journey of the pioneers to Parowan, Utah, and the activities of these settlers after they had arrived. The diary starts on 16 Dec. 1850 and ends on 2 Jan. 1852 and has many gaps.

Dates: 1850-1852
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Hiram Mace journal

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232593415]
Identifier: MSS 8734
Content Description Leather-bound journal kept by Hiram Mace. Journal was likely created in approximately 1860. Includes genealogical information of Mace's posterity, including birth and death dates. Also includes a brief autobiographical sketch of Mace's life from his birth until 1885, including his childhood in upstate New York, conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, experiences in Nauvoo, Illinois, travels to Utah and eventual settlement and life in Fillmore, Utah. Also includes some...
Dates: approximately 1860-1913
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Margaret Walker Macklin

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340868]
Identifier: MSS 2679
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Margaret Walker Macklin was born in England in 1842. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, migrated to Utah about 1868, married Thomas Macklin in 1875, and died 1927.

Dates: 1944
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James Harvey Mangum letter

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233286936]
Identifier: Vault MSS 148
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated October 8, 1876, and addressed to "Dear Father and Mother." Mangum writes about the difficulty of living in Clover Valley, Nevada, and states his desire to return to Utah. He also mentions the death of an infant.

Dates: 1876 October 8
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Markham family histories

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231042562]
Identifier: MSS 6278
Abstract

The Markham family histories include different family accounts from the Markham family including stories, pedigree charts, articles and photocopied certificates and letters.

Dates: 1822-1988
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Arthur Fowlke Marrott (1858-1901) and Selena Martha Stradling Marrott (1859-1945) – Pioneers of Orem, Utah, and St. Johns, Arizona

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239236406]
Identifier: MSS 8914
Content Description This account of the lives of Arthur and Selena Marrott by Russel Backus draws on a family biography by their daughter, Harriet, while focusing on information from two pocket ledgers that were kept by Arthur. Among other things, Arthur's ledgers identify people in the community with whom the Marrotts cooperated as their farms were being developed on desert land in the area that is now Lindon and Orem, Utah. The paper tells about these settlers and illustrates the extent to which they relied...
Dates: 2016
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Marshall family family history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236983]
Identifier: MSS SC 262
Scope and Contents

Typescripts of personal histories of members of the Marshall family, which include information about their emigration from England to Utah in 1856 and their pioneer journey on the first hand cart company, and poems and songs.

Dates: Date not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Martin Hansen's Grove : an old land mark in American Fork

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523767]
Identifier: MSS 2827
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten history. Timpson writes about a park in American Fork, Utah.

Dates: 1958
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Jesse Bigler Martin diaries

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 446
Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries with a typed copy of one volume. Martin kept diaries apparently in three volumes. The second and third volumes covering the time from 1854 to 1857 are found with the collection. A typed copy of the first diary covering the years from 1853 to 1854 is also included. Martin writes about his work as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England. He returned to the United States in 1857 and traveled by rail to Iowa City, Iowa. Martin writes in...
Dates: 1853-1857
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Addington Martindale papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230240365]
Identifier: MSS SC 392
Scope and Contents

Typescript copies of correspondence, blessings, a biographical sketch, genealogy, a letter of recommendation, letters to Martindale from James Martindale (1856) and from Orson Hyde (1848), genealogical record of the Martindale family, a photograph of Martindale, and Martindale's patriarchal blessing by Hyrum Smith (1843) (some photocopies). Also includes TLS's from the donors.

Dates: 1843-1975
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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