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United States. Army. Mormon Battalion

 Organization

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

John Steele business correspondence, 1852-1907

 Series
Identifier: Vault MSS 528 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains letters and other documents related to Steele's professional life and business interests.

Dates: 1852-1907
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 528, John Steele papers

John Steele church service papers, 1843-1936

 Series
Identifier: Vault MSS 528 Series 7
Scope and Contents

Contains records related to Steele's service in the LDS Church, including records related to his missions to England, Las Vegas, and Europe; temple work; patriarchal blessings received by Steele and his family; and, addresses given and visions had by Church leaders and others collected by Steele. Dated 1843-1936.

Dates: 1843-1936
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 528, John Steele papers

John Steele ephemera, 1868-1932

 Series
Identifier: Vault MSS 528 Series 9
Scope and Contents

Contains ephemera and other miscellaneous notes, letters, envelopes, and other items related to John Steele. Also includes photocopies of the title pages of all books owned by Steele, and a photocopy of a photograph of Steele dated 1891.

Dates: 1868-1932
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 528, John Steele papers

John Steele family history and genealogical records, 1875-1989

 Series
Identifier: Vault MSS 528 Series 4
Scope and Contents

Includes documents related to the history of John Steele and his family, including his handwritten autobiography, written around 1891, and a description of the John Steele papers by Kerry Bate, dated 1989.

Dates: 1875-1989
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 528, John Steele papers

John Steele personal and family correspondence, 1816-1922

 Series
Identifier: Vault MSS 528 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains letters to and from John Steele and his family, including his father, John Steele, Sr., his wives and children, including Mahonri Moriancumer Steele, grandchildren, as well as some extended family. Also includes some letters from friends and other personal acquaintances of John and Catherine Steele. Dated 1816-1922.

Dates: 1816-1922
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 528, John Steele papers

Edward Martin papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 3300
Scope and Contents Photocopy and typescript of a letter from Martin to John Melling, dated April 9, 1849. Letter is also signed by a "John Case" or "John Cane." It mentions briefly the expulsion from Nauvoo and travel to Council Bluffs as well as his being enlisted into the Mormon Battalion. Details all the mileage of his journeys as a member of the Battalion and finally his release and entry into the Salt Lake Valley. Mentions the death and burial of his daughter Eliza Susannah. Also bears his testimony of...
Dates: 1849 April 9
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Edward Martin papers

John Steele papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 528
Scope and Contents Contains diaries, notes, correspondence, dictionaries, surveys, bonds, certificates, horoscopes, and military orders. The correspondence was to and from John Steele, other family members, and acquaintances. The materials document the activities of the Steele family, John's militia and Mormon Battalion activities, his missions to England and to the Indians, his migration to Utah, and his life in Utah and Nevada. Also included is a dictionary of the Southern Paiute language created by John...
Dates: 1816-1989
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John Steele papers

Thomas L. Kane correspondence with other Mormons, 1846-1882

 Sub-Series — Box 16: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232550787]
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 3 Sub-Series 9
Dates: Majority of material found within 1846-1882
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Thomas L. Kane papers on the Mormons

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Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History 6
Latter Day Saint missionaries -- England -- History 6
Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- History 6
Latter Day Saints -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- History 6
Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Parowan -- History 6
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Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Toquerville -- History 6
Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History 6
Parowan (Utah) -- History 6
Toquerville (Utah) -- History 6
Southern Paiute language -- Dictionaries 5
Immigration and American Expansion 4
Latter Day Saint pioneers -- History 4
Paiute Indians -- History 4
Pioneers 4
Notes 3
Certificates 2
Diaries 2
Photocopies 2
Envelopes (Stationery) 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Campaigns 1
Mormons -- Utah 1
Patriarchal blessings (Mormon Church) 1
Photographers -- Utah 1
Photographs 1
Polygamy -- Utah 1
Printed ephemera 1
Speeches, addresses, etc. 1
Typescripts 1
Utah -- Emigration and immigration 1
Utah -- Politics and government 1
Visions 1
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