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Orley Dwight Bliss autobiography and diary
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 615
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography and diary. Account is retrospective until 1864, when Bliss writes short daily entries about his journey from Salt Lake City to Nebraska by ox team to help gather the poor to Utah. On the return trip to Utah, Bliss describes weather conditions, daily camping locations and mileage, encounters with Indian tribes, and more than twenty deaths from cholera. Bliss immigrated to Utah at age 8 and participated in the Utah War. Several pages of family genealogy are included...
Dates:
1864-1865
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography : Henry Davis Boley
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2582
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Henry Davis Boley was born in 1850 in Iowa and came to Utah in the same year with his parents who were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He settled in American Fork, Utah, and married Melissa Chipman in 1873. He died in 1910.
Dates:
1944
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
The book of life of Hugh Moon
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 751
Scope and Contents
Typescript of an autobiography. Moon was born in Lancashire, England, converted to Mormonism with his parents, came to Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1848, moved to St. George, Utah, in 1861, and relocated to Farmington, Utah, in 1866.
Dates:
1869
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Book of settlers of Cleveland
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1078
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten history of Cleveland, Utah, including short autobiographies of residents of that town. The residents tell about their early lives and how they migrated to Utah.
Dates:
1925
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Catherine Bowles family histories
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1492
Scope and Contents
Typed, photocopied, and bound genealogical information. The item contains a pedigree chart and family histories of Bowles' ancestors.
Dates:
1978
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Boyce family family history
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 261
Scope and Contents
Typescript of personal histories, diary excerpts, testimonies and patriarchal blessings.
Dates:
Date not identified
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Henry Green Boyle diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 156
Scope and Contents
Contains a handwritten autobiography and diaries related to Boyle's life and experience as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The autobiography was written beginning in 1844 and, in the same volume, he starts a diary in 1846. Boyle kept 14 additional volumes of diaries, dating from 1855 to 1889. Most of the content relates to Boyle's missionary experiences in California and to Southern States Mission, including while he was mission president from 1875 to 1878. Also...
Dates:
1844-1912
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
A brief history of the life of Mary Buys Moss
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1064
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of a typewritten biography of Mary Buys Moss (1836-1877). Mary came to Utah at age fourteen with the Mormon pioneers and settled with her family in Bountiful. She married Robert Moss (d. 1895) in 1853 and had twelve children.
Dates:
approximately 1960s
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brief history of William Cook Prows
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 921
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a photocopy of a handwritten biography of William Cook Prows. Prows was a pioneer to both Salt Lake City, Utah and Colonia Juarez, Mexico; a member of the Mormon Battalion; a gold prospector; a cooper; a horticulturist; and a polygamist. He was married to both Lodesky Ann Roberds and to Louisa Melinda James both of whom he took to Arizona. Then he took Louisa to Colonia Juarez due to the persecution of polygamists.
Dates:
1930-1977
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
A brief sketch of Hardy history
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 185
Scope and Contents
Typewritten history of the Hardy family including Zachariah Hardy. The family joined the Mormon Church and migrated to Utah.
Dates:
approximately 1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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