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Biographical sketch of the life of Luman Andros Shurtliff
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 88
Scope and Contents
Typewritten condensation of the original journal of Shurtliff, a businessman, politial and religious leader, Mormon missionary and patriarch, which tells of his early life in Ohio, religious revivals, conversion to Mormonism, marriages, missionary work, mobs in Far West, Missouri, expulsion from Nauvoo, Illinois, immigration to Utah, life in Weber County, Utah, and military preparations against Johnston's Army.
Dates:
1936
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Elias Hicks Blackburn papers
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 2, 3, 6
Identifier: Vault MSS 785
Scope and Contents
Contains records on the early ecclesiastical history of Provo, Utah. Records include accounts of sermons of the period by several prominent leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the Mormon Reformation, and document the response of the community, including rebaptisms and Church disciplinary matters. Also includes Blackburn's personal family record, and records of donations by Loa (Utah) Ward members for the building of the Manti Temple during Blackburn's tenure as...
Dates:
1851-1887
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Benjamin T. Blanchard autobiography
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 231
Scope and Contents
Notebook tells of Blanchard's conversion to the Mormon Church in Connecticut in 1844 and migration to Nauvoo, Illinois. From Nauvoo he joined the Mormon migration to Utah Valley and settled in Hobble Creek, Utah County, Utah. The notebook includes references to farming in the county, relationships with the Indians, and the Utah War.
Dates:
approximately 1870
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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
James Buchanan amnesty proclamation
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 721
Scope and Contents
Printed proclamation dated 6 April 1858. The document offers free and full pardon to all participants in the "Utah Rebellion" who submit themselves to the authority of the federal government.
Dates:
1858 April 6
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James Buchanan proclamation
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 77
Abstract
The folder contains a typewritten copy of a presidential proclamation dated 6 April 1858. Buchanan states that the people of Utah have refused to submit to federal authority, justifies his sending of a military force to see that the laws are enforced, states that his actions are not against the Utahns' religion, expresses a desire that all bloodshed could be avoided, and offers a full pardon "to all who will submit themselves to the authority of the federal government." Also included is a...
Dates:
1858
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Lowe Butler autobiographies
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 390
Scope and Contents
Collection includes three typewritten versions of the autobiography of John Lowe Butler. The autobiographies describe Butler's conversion to the Latter-day Saint Church, building Nauvoo, Illinois, officiating in the temple, experiences as Joseph Smith's bodyguard, the martyrdom of Smith, the expulsion from Nauvoo, the journey to Utah, the colonization of Spanish Fork, Utah, the Utah War and genealogical information of the Butler family, family wills and patriarchal blessings.
Dates:
1957-1970
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David Candland diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1140
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten diary. Candland writes about joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his life in Salt Lake Valley and in Sanpete County, Utah. He talks about his polygamous marriages, the Utah Expedition, and the birth and deaths of children. The item includes a major gap between 1863 and 1900.
Dates:
1846-1901
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
George Q. Cannon correspondence and record book
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 323
Scope and Contents
Two ALS's to "Brother Elias" from Cannon concerning the accounts at a general store in Fillmore, Utah and a handwritten account book from the same store dated April to September, 1858.
Dates:
1858
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Collection on Utah Expedition
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2379
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the original and typescript of "The Echo Canon War," probably written by William Stowell, and a typed document regarding the Weber Military District and the Utah War, beginning with Chapter 3 [no author].
Dates:
1857-1858
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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