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Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

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Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:

The Answer

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231045235]
Identifier: MSS 1195
Scope and Contents

Carbon copy of a typewritten book draft. The date of the composition of the item is uncertain. Stock writes about arguments which support the divine authenticity of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dates: ca. 1950

Clarence Marcellus Barker papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197223105948]
Identifier: MSS 2057
Scope and Contents Includes journals, notebooks, an autograph album, letters, and articles relating to his mission in Australia. Five journals document his missionary activities in Sidney, Tasmania, Adelaide, and Perth, including encounters with RLDS missionaries. Notebooks contain a statistical record of his missionary activities, and missionary references, including notes on polygamy and on the RLDS Church. Autograph album contains messages from missionaries, Church members, and other friends in Australia....
Dates: 1905-1987

E. Jay Bell letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230347715]
Identifier: MSS 1286
Scope and Contents

Five letters addressed to Jay E. Bell of Provo, Utah, in answer to inquiries concerning the beliefs and doctrines of the LDS Church (Strangites) and the RLDS Church (Independence). Concerns temple ordinances, revelation and prophets, tithing, the law of consecration, polygamy, the birth of Christ, Joseph Smith Jr., the Doctrine and Covenants, and other doctrines.

Dates: 1972

A biography of Alexander Williams

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336403]
Identifier: MSS 459
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography. The year of the composition of the item is unknown. Kimball writes that Williams was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1847, had encounters with the Ute Indians, lived as a polygamist, and converted to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Dates: 1950

Description of experiences had in crossing the plains and mountains in the spring of 1863, settling in the eastern and unorganized portion of Idaho territory, and experiences had in that country in 1863-4

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233291027]
Identifier: Vault MSS 492
Scope and Contents Walker's party left West Point, Iowa, on 8 April 1863, destined for California. They traveled by steamboat and rail to Atchison, Kansas, and from there "in one of Ben Hollidays stage coaches" to Fremont's Orchard. They encountered about sixty Indians. They arrived safely in Denver. Walker went with a wagon train for some "diggings discovered about five hundred miles north of Salt Lake City." They passed a group of Mormons heading back east who told Walker: "We are Mormons: but we are...
Dates: 1863-1864, 1904

Detailed record of protesting group of Latter Day Saints in Independence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348473]
Identifier: MSS 1383
Scope and Contents

Typewritten records kept by E. D. Moore relating to an investigation into groups protesting the policies and practices of the Reorganized Church.

Dates: 1925

Diggle family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197223103141]
Identifier: MSS 2208
Scope and Contents Mainly letters to the Samuel and Sarah Diggle family, in Iowa, from relatives, including Elizabeth W. Andrew and George Openshaw, Salt Lake City; Nancy W. Butterworth, Mary Diggle, and Mary Banks, Heywood, Lancashire, England; and Robert B. Whitaker, Kenosha, Wisconsin. Topics include family news, plural marriage, Brigham Young, and the family of Joseph Smith Jr. Envelopes accompany several of the letters. Includes letters from children of Elizabeth Andrew and Nancy Butterworth. Also...
Dates: 1854-1893

Edgar Lyon and family papers, 1915-1971

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2341 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Publications written by the Lyon family.

Dates: Other: 1915-1971

E. C. Emmons letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231044907]
Identifier: MSS 1010
Scope and Contents

Typed copy of a letter dated April 7, 1861 and addressed to "Dear Parents." Emmons mentions "Brother Joseph's Mission" and states "our love to Bro. Joseph" perhaps meaning he had some connection with Joseph Smith, III,the president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Dates: 1861 April 7

Mark Hill Forscutt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 811
Scope and Contents Contains the journals of Mark Hill Forscutt from June 1855 to May 1900. They illustrate his religious conversions from membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to a follower of the Morrisite movement, and finally to a leader in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (now the Community of Christ). The collection also contains some miscellaneous material such as copies of The Saints' Harmony and The Saints' Harp, as well as photographs and other...
Dates: 1855-1900

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Type
Collection 36
Archival Object 4
 
Subject
Letters 26
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 16
Material Types 14
Correspondence 10
Religion 9
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Church Government 5
Diaries 5
Social Life and Customs 5
Mormon Church -- History 4
Nauvoo (Ill.) 4
Notes 4
City and Town Life 3
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 3
Immigration and American Expansion 3
Mormon Church 3
Mormons -- Utah -- Salt Lake City -- Correspondence 3
Pamphlets 3
Photographs 3
Presidents -- Succession 3
Articles 2
Biographies 2
Dissertations, Academic 2
Expeditions and Adventure 2
Home and Family 2
Microfilms 2
Missions and Missionaries 2
Montana -- History 2
Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857 2
Newspapers 2
Notebooks 2
Oral histories 2
Photocopies 2
Protestantism 2
Utah 2
Utah -- History -- 19th century 2
Yearbooks 2
Adelaide (S.A.) 1
American poetry 1
Autograph albums 1
Baptism for the dead 1
Businessmen -- Utah -- Correspondence 1
Certificates 1
Christian sects 1
Church of the First Born (Morrisites) 1
Church officers -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1
Citizenship papers 1
Civil Procedure and Courts 1
Drafts (Documents) 1
Eskdale (Utah) 1
Essays 1
Evangelistic work -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1
Families -- California -- Lower Lake -- History 1
Family histories 1
Family reunions 1
Files (Records) 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Genealogies 1
Harrison County (Iowa) 1
Heywood (England) 1
Histories (Literary works) 1
Houston (Tex.) -- History 1
Hymnals 1
Idaho -- History 1
Illinois 1
Insanity (Law) -- Illinois -- History -- Sources 1
Iowa 1
Iowa -- History 1
Kenosha (Wis.) 1
Land surveys 1
Letterpress copybooks 1
Literature 1
Lower Lake (Calif.) -- History -- Sources 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Marriage -- California -- Lower Lake -- History 1
Mormon Church -- History -- 19th century 1
Mormon Church -- History -- 20th century 1
Mormon Church -- Missions -- Canada 1
Mormon Church -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century 1
Mormon Church -- Presidents -- Correspondence 1
Mormon missionaries -- Australia 1
Mormon temples -- Illinois -- Nauvoo 1
Mormons 1
Mormons -- Australia 1
Mormons -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- History 1
Mormons -- Missouri -- Independence -- History 1
Mormons -- Utah -- Correspondence 1
Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History 1
Nebraska 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific 1
Pariarchs (Mormon theology) 1
Park City (Utah) -- History 1
Periodicals 1
Perth (W.A.) 1
Pioneers 1
Pioneers -- Montana -- Virginia City 1
Plasterers -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- Sources 1
Politics, Government, and Law 1
Polygamy 1
Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1
Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History 1
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