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William Burton journal
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1643
Scope and Contents
Bound, typewritten, carbon copy of William Burton's journal (1841-1851), which includes extracts from Joseph Wood's journal (1839-1840). The record gives a detailed account of the journey to Utah with Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball in 1848, missionary experiences, and some family genealogy.
Dates:
1837-1907
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John M. Butler address
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8340
Scope and Contents
Materials include a typed address delivered by John M. Butler at the Centerville Second Ward on October 7, 1936. The address pertains to his personal family history, and specifically the story of Ellen Hancock Burns MacDuff, who immigrated from England to the United States and travelled to Utah with the Mormon Pioneers.
Dates:
1936 October 7
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Butler autobiographies and letters
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 863
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of autobiographies and personal letters. Included are four personal histories of varying lengths. Butler described his visions, business matters, family relationships, church assignments, missions served, and recounted many colorful experiences including hunting down and killing the murderer of one of his children. The letters were written by William Butler and his first wife, Emma Harvey, to their Henry Harvey Butler in 1891-2 while Henry was serving on a mission to...
Dates:
1850-1905
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Robert Lang Campbell journal
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 496
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains Campbell's original handwritten journal where he describes his missionary experiences in Scotland; emigration to Nauvoo, Illinois; experiences traveling to Utah as a Mormon pioneer; and duties as a Mormon Church leader. Dated 1843-1848. Campbell also added to the end of his journal handwritten transcriptions of his missionary certificate, his appointment to the Glasgow Conference, and a letter to the Church in Wales from Franklin D. Richards. Dated...
Dates:
approximately 1843-1941; Majority of material found within 1843-1850
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David H. Cannon autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 588
Scope and Contents
Typewritten autobiography which describes emigration from England to Utah, 1842-1847, his church missions to California, England and Utah's Dixie and his experiences as an immigrant leader. Gives data on church positions, including his calling as president of the St. George, Utah Latter-day Saint Temple.
Dates:
1917
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Johanna Christina Danielson Cannon personal history
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1421
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten personal history. Cannon describes her emigration to Utah, her homesteading experiences there, and her marriage as a plural wife to Angus M. Cannon.
Dates:
1910
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographical sketch of William Carter
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 528
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biography. Also included is a typewritten poem by Johnson. William Carter was a Mormon who lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1847, and lived in Salt Lake City and later in St. George, Utah. He was a polygamist who spent time in the Utah penitentiary for bigamy.
Dates:
1938
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Talitha C. Avery Cheney autobiography and a biography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3237
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typed autobiography. Cheney writes about her early life and her conversion to the Mormon Church in 1837. She moved with her family to Nauvoo, Illinois, where she heard sermons by Joseph Smith (1805-1844), the first president of the Mormon Church. She also heard Brigham Young (1801-1877), second president of the Mormon Church. Talitha married William Howard Avery in 1844. He died in 1847. She migrated to Utah in 1853 and married Elam Cheney. She lived...
Dates:
1895-1935
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Albert Collard history
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1277
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten history. The item states: "voyage of Ester Stevenson Grange and parents on the ship 'Martha Siddon,' told by Albert Collard, a boy passanger, 1855." Collard relates the conditions and hardships of a group of migrating Mormons. The voyage took place aboard the ship, "Martha Siddon."
Dates:
approximately 1890
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Sarah Ann Piling Mayne Cooper
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2845
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Sarah Ann Piling Mayne Cooper was born in England in 1821 and died in West Jordan, Utah, in 1880. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah. She married George Mayne and Frank Cooper.
Dates:
1962
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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