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Russel Benson Backus collection on Albert Galliton Earl and Elvira Egbert Carson
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8921
Scope and Contents
Contains biographical materials on Russel Benson Backus' ancestors, Albert Galliton Earl and Elvira Egbert Carson. Carson's autobiography covers 1821-1898 and discusses her life as a Mormon pioneer. Earl's biography, written by his daughter Elizabeth Elvira Earl Cordner, covers 1846-1909 and discusses his experiences in the Civil War and as a businessman in Utah. The collection includes original documents as well as photocopies, and both biographies are available on DVD. Materials dated...
Dates:
1865-2016
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
Claude Vincent and Lillie Liston Baker collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1682
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of personal letters, histories and rememberances from the Claude Vincent and Lillie Liston Baker family. It provides an intimate and loving portrait of a Mormon family and their struggle to tame southern Utah.
Dates:
1929-1960
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Baker family family histories
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 332
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biographies, letters, diaries and genealogy sheets relating to the Baker family, converts to Mormonism and settlers of Southern Utah.
Dates:
1850-1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Eve Ball manuscripts and photographs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7740
Scope and Contents
Collection contains revised manuscripts of some book chapters written by Eve Ball, and photographs that support her research of Native Americans.
Dates:
1966
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Ball papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1741
Scope and Contents
Handwritten correspondence, diaries, ledgers, newspaper and magazine articles, accounts of travels, legal documents, and miscellaneous items. The correspondence deals largely with Ball's explorations and with family matters. The materials document Ball's explorations in the American Northwest with Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth in 1832, his visit to Hawaii in 1833, and his explorations in Michigan. The collection also relates to Ball's activities as a lawyer and as a politician in Michigan. Ball...
Dates:
1819-1932
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
Margaret McNeil Ballard autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 484
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of an autobiography. Ballard writes about her early life in Scotland as a Mormon, her migration to the United States in 1856 and her subsequent migration to Utah in 1859, and her life as a polygamous wife in Logan, Utah. Ballard also tells about encounters with Indians while coming to Utah, and when she was living in Logan.
Dates:
1910
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Ellen Julia Barratt
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2760
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Ellen Julia Barratt was born in 1836 in England. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1855. She settled in American Fork, married Thomas Barratt, and had twelve children. She died in 1930.
Dates:
1958
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographical sketch of the lives of Thomas Barratt and Ellen Julian Barratt
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3285
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Myers writesabout the lives of Thomas Barratt and Ellen Julian Barratt. Thomas was born in England in 1830, and he married Mary Morgan Whitby in 1849. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850 and migrated to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1854. His wife died there. He married Ellen Julian in 1855, and they migrated to Utah in the same year. They settled in American Fork, Utah, and had 13 children. He died in...
Dates:
1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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