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Pioneers

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Found in 771 Collections and/or Records:

Short sketch of the life of Lydia Thornton Adams : pioneer of American Fork, Utah, 1852

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339001]
Identifier: MSS 2405
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Lydia Thornton was born in 1830 in Canada. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; and to Utah in 1852. She settled in American Fork, Utah, married Joshua Adams, had 10 children, and died in 1901.

Dates: 1934
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Short sketch of the life of Thomas Shelley and Charlotte Elsmore : pioneers of American Fork, Utah, 1851

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340520]
Identifier: MSS 2465
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Thomas Shelley was born in England in 1822, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married Charlotte Elsmore, and migrated to Utah in 1851. He worked as a farmer in American Fork and died in 1902. Charlotte Elsmore Shelley was born in 1828 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married Thomas Shelley, and migrated to Utah. She died in 1904. They had eight children.

Dates: 1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Gabriel Schuler biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230314947]
Identifier: MSS SC 1737
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typed biography of Gabriel Schuler, an early Pennsylvania settler.

Dates: approximately 1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Andrew Jackson Shupe diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305655]
Identifier: MSS SC 817
Scope and Contents This is a typescript of a diary of a Mexican War soldier who served in the "Mormon Battalion." The diary was kept from 16 July 1846 to 10 Sept. 1847 with a few entries for the years 1848-1855. He was also among the first groups to enter Salt Lake Valley in July of 1847. He went to Winter Quarters in August 1847 and went to Ogden, Utah in 1852. There are numerous gaps in this diary. The entries tend to be short but some are lengthy and detailed. Two small biographies of Andrew Jackson...
Dates: 1846-1855
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Silas D. Smith list of early pioneers in Snowflake, Arizona, 1878-1899

 Item — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230232339], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 503 Series 1 Item 19
Dates: 1878-1899
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Jesse Nathaniel Smith papers / Jesse Nathaniel Smith collection / Jesse Nathaniel Smith certificates, mementos and miscellany

Biography of Harriet Bebbington Silcock : came to Utah in 1854

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340736]
Identifier: MSS 2494
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Harriet Bebbington was born 1814 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853, and migrated to Utah in 1854. She married Thomas Silcock in 1855 and died in 1893.

Dates: 1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Sarah Oakey Sirrine collection

 Collection — Folder 10: [Barcode: 31197239121830]
Identifier: MSS 8593
Scope and Contents Contains letters, journals, photographs and other records related to families of James Oakey and George Warren Sirrine, founders of Paris and Dingle, Idaho, and Mesa, Arizona. Letters and journals provide insight into life in these areas and the difficulties that arose from beginning these settlements. Collection was compiled by Sarah Oakey Sirrine, daughter of James Oakey and daughter-in-law to George Warren Sirrine. Includes primarily originals, but also includes some transcriptions and...
Dates: 1834-1974
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Sketch of Catherine Cunningham Adams : taken from the other biographies and Church history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230332428]
Identifier: MSS SC 3282
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biogaphy of Catherine Cunningham Adams. Adams was born in Scotland in 1838, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah with the ill-fated Willie handcart company in 1856. She married, had 11 children, and died in 1912.

Dates: approximately 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

A sketch of the life of Susan Hammond Ashby Noble

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348952]
Identifier: MSS 525
Scope and Contents

Handwritten biography and a letter. Badger writes a biography of her mother, Susan Hammond Ashby Noble (1808-1851). Susan Noble was a convert to the Mormon Church by Erastus Snow, lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, and migrated to Utah in 1848. Also included is a letter from a "Maria" to her mother in 1857.

Dates: 1924
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Sketch of the life of Thomas Durham

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329960]
Identifier: MSS SC 3077
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm reproduction of a typed manuscript. The item is a biography of Thomas Durham. He lived in England, joined the Mormon Church in 1850, married Mary Morton in 1852, and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Martin handcart company. He soon went to Parowan, Utah, where he led the local choir for 62 years. He married a second wife, Mary Mitchell, in 1860 and took a third wife, Carole Mortensen, in 1867. Durham made a living as a furniture maker. Alfred M. Durham...
Dates: 1936
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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