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Lavon B. Jones biography of Henry Hamilton
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6242
Abstract
The Lavon B. Jones biography of Henry Hamilton is a biography that accounts for the life of Hamilton from his birth in Scotland to his death in Utah. Henry Hamilton was an early pioneer that forged his way from Scotland to the Utah Valley.
Dates:
1980
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographies of William Edward Jones and Mary Jones Jones
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3203
Scope and Contents
Gives a brief history of Edward and Mary Jones from the time they lived in Wales to Edward's death in Utah. It includes their conversion to the Mormon Church, their emmigration to the United States, their trek across the plains and settlement in Parowan, Utah. There Edward took on two more wives (Eliza Newman and Sarah Davis). This history relates several experiences of living in a polygamist household. After the United States outlawed polygamy Edward was arrested twice but released both...
Dates:
approximately 1960
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 1214
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, newspaper articles, reports, manuscripts, oral histories, and other material concerning the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, mostly from 1940-2005. Collection includes administrative files, history of the Primary and Relief Society organizations within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, social services and women in the church. The records concerning the Primary and Relief Society organizations document the beginning of those...
Dates:
1880-2005
Kane family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 792
Scope and Contents
Materials contain the papers of the Kane family of Philadelphia and Kane, Pennsylvania. Includes papers created and collected by John K. Kane and his wife, Jane Duval Kane; and their children, specifically Thomas L. Kane and his wife, Elizabeth Kane. Contains letters to and from several important American political and historical figures, including Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, John Hancock, Andrew Jackson, Horace Greeley, and U.S. Grant. A large portion of the collection also deals with...
Dates:
1690-1982
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Thomas Wright Kirby autobiography and diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 706
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography and diary. These materials were created when Kirby was in the territorial penitentiary of Utah for polygamy. Kirby was born in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1852, performed missionary work in England, migrated to Utah in 1863 where he lived in several different places, took additional wives, joined the United Order, and went to prison for polygamy. His diary covers the years 1886 to 1887 when he was in the...
Dates:
1887
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Mary Lovisa Hovey Lambert biography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1754
Scope and Contents
Typescript of a biography of Mary Lovisa Hovey Lambert, member of the Mormon Church, who was born in Utah and became a polygamist wife.
Dates:
1961
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
George Washington Langley
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1074
Scope and Contents
Holograph biography of George Washington Langley (1818-1850). Mormon missionary and pioneer to Utah, bodyguard of prophet Brigham Young (1801-1877), and husband of Mary Turner and Martha McKinney Frost.
Dates:
1976; 1976
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Elijah Larkin diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 175
Scope and Contents
Materials include three volumes of handwritten diaries where Larkin writes about his life in England as a policeman; his immigration to America in 1863 aboard the ship Amazon; and, the overland journey from Florence, Nebraska to Salt Lake City by ox team in the Daniel D. McArthur Company. Larkin includes a description of preparations for the trail, and wrote lengthy and detailed daily entries about the appearance and geography of the overland trail, company discipline, hunting, and births...
Dates:
1854-1867
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Christian J. Larsen diary and autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 421
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of a typescript of a diary and an autobiography. The diary covers the years from 1851 to 1857 and has many gaps. The autobiographical materials cover the rest of Larsen's life. Larsen was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Denmark and performed missionary work in that country and in Norway. He moved to Utah in 1854 where he lived in Ogden, Ephraim, and Logan. He was married polygamously, participated in the Black Hawk War against the Ute Indians,...
Dates:
1850-1914
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lecture series collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 72
Scope and Contents
Recordings of lectures given September 22, and November 3, 1982; and January 19, and March 9, 1983. Subjects discussed includeed Mormonism and secularization; the Utah Territorial Militia; the influence of Mormonism in Colonia Dublan, Chiuahua, Mexico; and the settlement of Cache and Weber valleys, Utah.
Dates:
1982-1983
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