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Joab Collier and Theodocia Keeler Collier papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS 1729

Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiographies, diaries, correspondence, patriarchal blessings, and miscellaneous materials. Typescripts and photocopies of many of these items are also found with the collection. Some of the materials have been bound into books. The collection relates primarily to Joab Collier (1855-1918) and Theodocia Keeler Collier (1858-1912). The Colliers were Mormons who lived in Provo, Vernal, and in Salt Lake City, Utah. Joab had many occupations including that of bricklayer. The...

Dates: 1847-1957

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Israel Franklin Evans papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS 1762

Scope and Contents Certificates, handwritten and typewritten correspondence, speeches, reports, newspaper clippings, receipts, a short biography, magazines, legal papers, a guest book, and a diary. The guest book and diary are found in the same volume. Some of the materials relate to Evans' service as president of the Eastern States Mission for the Mormon Church. The materials deal with his service to the Mormon Church, his law career, and his interest in education in Utah. Many of the items relate to...

Dates: 1918-1956

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Barbara Lucille Hall papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1670

Scope and Contents

Collection includes poems, correspondence, diaries, autobiographical sketches, and miscellaneous items written or collected by Barbara Lucille Hall.

Dates: 1976-1983

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William Henry Hart diaries

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS 1411

Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries with typescripts in four volumes. Volume 1 concerns Hart's overland journey by ox team from Quincy, Illinois to the Humboldt Valley, Nevada, in 1852. Hart is an insightful and descriptive diarist. He writes about cooking and commerce on the plains, encounters with Indians, and dissatisfaction in his company. Hart mentions a handful of deaths from cholera and includes a moving description of one funeral. He also gives a festive account of his company's celebration of the...

Dates: 1852-1888

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John F. Heidenreich papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1838

Scope and Contents

Scrapbooks, correspondence, meeting minutes, typescript of a master's thesis, newspaper clippings, sermons, poems, diaries, and an autobiography published as "An Acorn Became an Oak." The materials deal with Heidenrich's life, career as a Congregationalist minister, his angelic visitations, and his conversion to the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1928-1977

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William H. Homer research papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS 825

Scope and Contents

Collection includes handwritten and typewritten research notes, articles, genealogies, diaries, and biographies. Also included is Homer family correspondence. The family members lived in Utah, Wyoming, and Montana. The notes relate to Homer's research on Martin Harris (1783-1875). Also included is a diary Homer's father, William Harrison Homer, Sr., kept while he was on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England from 1867 to 1868.

Dates: 1867-1965

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John Peter Johnson papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 1957

Scope and Contents

Handwritten correspondence, diaries, notebooks, patriarchal blessings, certificates, an autobiography, and genealogical materials. The correspondence are between Johnson and his wife, Hana, and were written while Johnson was on a mission for the Mormon Church in Sweden. The diaries were kept while Johnson was on his mission and after his return to Ogden, Utah. The certificates deal with Johnson's numerous callings in the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1872-1946

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Emma Price papers

File — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS SC 3052

Scope and Contents

Collection includes photocopies of Price's diaries, which containing correspondence between Emma Price and her children with her husband while he served a church mission in Wales. The diary also contains genealogical information, addresses, and copied scriptures. Collection also includes a photograph with Edmund Price and additional biographical information.

Dates: 1896-1903

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Nils Gunnar Rasmuson papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS FM 19

Abstract

Handwritten and typewritten documents on microfilm. They include diaries, correspondence, blessings, certificates, and miscellaneous items. The materials relate largely to Rasmuson's career as a journalist and to his personal life. Also included are papers of Nils' sister, Anna C. Rasmuson.

Dates: 1912-1969

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Hester Telle Richards diary and correspondence

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS SC 1853

Scope and Contents

Collection includes a handwritten diary, letters, and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the diary was written from 1891 to 1893 prior to her marriage. The entries are lengthy and often introspective. The volume includes some later entries from 1932 to 1933 and some notes from 1980 in another hand. Also included is miscellaneous correspondence relating to business and family matters from 1932 and 1933.

Dates: 1891-1980

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Joab Collier and Theodocia Keeler Collier papers

Israel Franklin Evans papers

Barbara Lucille Hall papers

William Henry Hart diaries

John F. Heidenreich papers

William H. Homer research papers

John Peter Johnson papers

Emma Price papers

Nils Gunnar Rasmuson papers

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