Pioneers
Found in 771 Collections and/or Records:
Biography of Abraham L. Parker
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed biography. Abraham L. Parker was born in 1825 in England, he married Barbara Scott, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He migrated to Utah in 1869, and lived in Henefer and Ogden, Utah.
Life of John Parker
Photocopy of a typewritten biography of John Parker (1812-1886). Parker was a convert to the Mormon Church and a pioneer to Utah who settled in Washington County and Bountiful, Utah.
Biography of Mary Ann Child Parker, pioneer
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Ann Child Parker was born in England in 1821. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1843 and migrated to Utah in 1852 where she settled in American Fork. She married William Parker in 1847 and died in 1892.
Biography of William Parker, pioneer
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Parker was born in England in 1821 and later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He migrated to Iowa and then to Utah where he settled in American Fork. He had eight children and died in 1905.
Parkinson family photographs and book, undated
Parry family biographical collection
Collection contains the autobiography of Joseph Parry, a transcript of the journal of John Parry, and photocopies of miscellaneous articles on Joseph Parry and the Fort Lemhi and Salmon River Mission. Joseph Parry's autobiography covers the period 1837 to 1855, including a description of his mother's death, his conversion to Mormonism, an incomplete account of his mission to the Salmon River Valley and the construction of Fort Lemhi, and his later settlement in Ogden, Utah.
James Mills Paxton autobiography
Photocopy of a 17-page handwritten autobiography. Paxton was born in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1854, migrated to Utah in 1863, worked in Parowan in 1864, moved to Panguitch in 1865, participated in the Black Hawk War against the Indians, and learned masonry at Toquerville in 1867. He also presents a copy of his patriarchal blessing.
Jean Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce diary
Photocopies of a typescript of a diary. Pearce migrated to Utah in 1851. She went by way of New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Louis, Missouri. She gives details on the trek to Utah. She lived in Ogden, Utah. There is a gap in the diary from 1852 to 1868. Pearce moved to California in 1869.
Jean Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce papers
Contains digital copies of papers related to Jean (Jane) Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce. Includes marriage and other legal documents for her progenitors and children, letters, receipt for her burial plot, and her original handwritten diaries from 1851 and 1878. The 1851 diary documents Jean (Jane) Rio's journey from England to America to join the Latter-day Saints in Utah, including her trials crossing the ocean by ship and the plains. Dated 1780-1878.
Jacob Peart letters and diaries
Contains the typed and transcribed work of Dorothy Jane Larson Bryson, as well as copies of the original diaries of Jacob Peart. Also includes photographs of various people related to the diaries.