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William Adams autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 569
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography with a typescript of the item. Adams came from Ireland, migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, and later to Salt Lake Valley, Utah. He also lived in Springville, Spanish Fork, Parowan, and Cedar City, Utah. Adams writes about Jacob Hamblin's efforts to convert Indians, the preparations to meet the United States Army coming to Utah in 1857 and 1858, going on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and meeting Emma Hales Smith, the wife of the first...
Dates:
1894
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Washington F. Anderson diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 40
Overview
The collection contains a typewritten copy of a diary kept from 30 July to 12 August of 1857. Anderson writes about a company of Mormons travelling from Carson Valley, Nevada to Salt Lake City, Utah. He tells about Indian troubles and about the miles travelled every day.
Dates:
1857
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
George B. Bailey papers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 580
Scope and Contents
Holographs; typescript; printed forms (photocopy). The collection includes a journal (l p. by wife, Elizabeth) which describes life in Salt Lake Valley and related problems with the United States government in 1856-1857 and gives genealogical data on the Bailey and Young families. Also included are a letter fragment, poem by George, and 6 Latter-day Saint Church family group sheets of the George Smith Bailey and Victoria Price family.
Dates:
1800s
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Henry Ballard diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 998
Scope and Contents
Two typescripts of the Ballard diary. They vary in small details and in the nature of the added materials found at the back. Ballard was converted to Mormonism in England. He arrived in Utah in 1852, was active in the Utah War of 1857-8, and settled in Logan, Utah in 1859.
He was a bishop for the Mormon Church, participated in many of the activities of that faith, and was sentenced to two months in the Utah penitentiary for polygamy. He also tells about troubles with the Indians of the Cache...
Dates:
1852-1905
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Bench letter
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 547
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten letter dated 1 Feb. 1908 and addressed to "Son & Daughter." The item was written in Manti, Utah. Bench writes about his early life in Utah. He tells about settling in Manti early in the 1850s and about the hardships he faced at that time. He talks about encounters with Ute Indians stating that during "the first engagement we had with the Indians 5 balls passed through my clothing but I was unharmed" and about the preparations made to meet the Utah Expedition of...
Dates:
1908 February 1
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 at...
Dates:
1864-1865
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James Buchanan proclamation
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 77
Overview
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
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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