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Latter Day Saints -- Canada

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Marillah Olney Adams : pioneer 1852

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340793]
Identifier: MSS 2506
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Marillah Olnew was born in1833 in Canada. Her family soon joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1852 and settled in American Fork. She married Arza Adams in 1859, and she died in 1899.

Dates: 1940

Biography of Nancy Lance Stuart Dayton Cooper

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340595]
Identifier: MSS 2484
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Nancy Lance Stuart Dayton Cooper was born in 1807 in Canada. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. She migrated to Utah in 1851 with Captain Day's company and settled in American Fork.

Dates: approximately 1935

Biography of pioneer Hyrum Dayton

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340561]
Identifier: MSS 2486
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Hyrum Dayton was born in Canada, had three wives, and seventeen children. He came to Utah in Captain Day's company in 1851. He lived in Cedar Fort and later in American Fork, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1935

History of the life of Thomas Ephraim Thornton

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340447]
Identifier: MSS 2473
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Thomas Ephraim Thornton was born in Canada in 1835. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1837. The family later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. He migrated to Utah in 1852 and married Priscilla Covington in 1856. They had 11 children. He resided in American Fork, Utah, where he died in 1918.

Dates: 1935

Biography : Stephen Mott

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341031]
Identifier: MSS 2563
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Stephen Mott was born in 1822 in Canada. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois. He later came to Utah in 1850. He was a farmer and a stock raiser. He had two wives and no children, but he helped raise three children of other couples. He died in 1906.

Dates: 1940

Pioneer Oliver Thornton : came to Utah in 1852

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340454]
Identifier: MSS 2472
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Oliver Thornton was a native of Canada who joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1837. He migrated to Utah in 1852 and settled in American Fork. He died in 1891 at the age of 85.

Dates: 1935

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