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Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company contracts or bonds with emigrants departing from St. Louis, 1855

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 843
Image of Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company contracts or bonds with emigrants departing from St. Louis
Image of Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company contracts or bonds with emigrants departing from St. Louis

Dates

  • 1855

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company records must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.

Biographical / Historical

Erastus Snow was born on November 19, 1818 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Snow joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1833 when he was 15 years old. He served several missions for the Church, including one to Denmark. Because of his time in Europe, he was responsible for the translation of the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and other Church publications into Danish. He, with Orson Pratt, was one of the first Mormon pioneers to enter the Salt Lake Valley. He was later called to be an Apostle in 1849. In 1855 he served as director of the LDS Emigration Office in St. Louis. In 1861 he was asked to settle southern Utah and played a crucial role in the settlement of St. George. He married Artimesia Beman on December 3, 1838, and they had eleven children together. He is known to have had multiple wives. Erastus Snow died on May 27, 1888 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Extent

15 items

Language of Materials

English

Other Finding Aids

File-level inventory for original collection available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS843.xml

Related Materials

Related materials found in Folder 19.

General

Most of these documents are signed by Erastus Snow.

Repository Details

Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository

Contact:
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Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States