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Latter Day Saint missionaries -- United States -- Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

William D. Baird mission journal

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239282558]
Identifier: MSS SC 830
Scope and Contents

William D. Baird's mission journal documenting his service in the Northern States mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Locations include Fort Wayne, Elkhart, and South Bend, Indiana. Dated December 1899 to June 1901.

Dates: 1899-1901
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Josephine Hinckley Bentley mission diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227629182]
Identifier: MSS 3934
Abstract

The Josephine Hinckley Bentley mission diary includes the photocopied account of Josephine's mission to California. The diary is from 1913.

Dates: 1913
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Appleton Milo Harmon autobiography and diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 75
Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries. Includes several pages of family genealogy. Volume 1 describes Harmon's overland journeys in 1847, 1848, 1849 and 1850. Harmon traveled from Nebraska to the Upper Platte Ferry (1847), from Nebraska to Salt Lake City (1848), from Salt Lake City to the Upper Platte Ferry (1849), and from Salt Lake City to the East Coast to serve a mission to England (1850). Harmon writes about weather, Indian encounters, and the nature of the trail. Volume 2 describes Harmon's overland...
Dates: 1850-1853
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Jesse Fuller Bean papers, 1904-1930

 File — Box 9: [Barcode: 31197239254250], disk: 105
Identifier: UA 5665
Scope and Contents

Digitized holograph missionary diaries kept by Bean while serving in the Southern State Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including a missionary blessing, family history, account of coming to Utah in 1847, family genealogy records and certificates of ordination.

Dates: 1904-1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Digital Initiatives project records

Paul Ludlow journals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8097
Scope and Contents Contains two journals for the mission of Paul Ludlow in the Northern States Mission in the Midwestern United States during 1901-1902. He served in Michigan, and Illinois, primarily Chicago. Ludlow's entry on April 15, 1902, includes the description of a visit with David Hyrum Smith, youngest son of Joseph Smith, while he was in the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Elgin, Illinois. The second journal also includes a few entries after his mission when he lived in Spanish...
Dates: 1901-1902
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Elias Nielsen missionary journal

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239119107]
Identifier: MSS 9508
Scope and Contents

Journal kept by Elias Nielsen which includes entries during his service a missionary in the Northern States Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1897 to 1899. Also contains lists of ward member names in Logan, Utah, blessings given, a biographical entry, and other personal stories. Dates of entries begin in 1893 and continue through 1916.

Dates: 1897-1916
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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