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Peter Tice diary
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 154
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary with photocopies of the item. The manuscript contains an inventory of supplies, an account of Tice's journey across North America in 1850, and a description of his prospecting for gold in California.
Dates:
1850
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ida Fredraca Kruger Tietjen autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2781
Scope and Contents
Typescript of an autobiography. Tietjen writes about her early life in Sweden, her migration to Utah, and her subsequent life as a Mormon woman in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dates:
approximately 1881
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Thomas Todd autobiography
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 685
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typescript of an autobiography. Todd writes about his youth in Scotland, his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850, his immigration to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1854, his service in the Utah Militia during the Utah Expedition, and his life in Spanish Fork and in Heber City, Utah. He also includes family genealogies.
Dates:
approximately 1895
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Tolles family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1576
Scope and Contents
Collection contains correspondence of the Tolles family and James Tolles' overland diary from Rushville, Illinois, to California in 1849. Also included is a handwritten copy of the diary made by Tolles' granddaughter, Doris Beard, in 1933. Tolles traveled to California by ox team with his father and brother, Abraham and William Tolles. Daily entries are detailed and describe the nature of the journey and distances traveled. Tolles' company of 40-odd men traded with a group of 2,000 Dakota...
Dates:
1849-1875
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John F. Tolton autobiography, diaries, and histories
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 409
Abstract
Includes typewritten copies of an autobiography, diary, and a history of Beaver, Utah.
Dates:
1884-1931
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Toone missionary journal
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8775
Content Description
Compilation of transcriptions of journal entries written by John Toone. Describes his experiences as a missionary in England from May 8, 1854-April 29, 1856; the last few days of his journal describe when he entered the Salt Lake Valley, August 31-September 13, 1852. Contains a biographical sketch, a paper on John Toone and his music, and a history of Croydon, Utah, which Toone helped settle, written by decendants of John Toone. This book was put together by members of the John Toone Family...
Dates:
1854-1856; Publication: 1997
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Tour to California overland
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 164
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary by an unknown person. The item tells of the author's overland journey with the Anknin Company from St. Joseph, Missouri to Fort Kearny, Nebraska in 1849 by mule train. The author gives detailed information about the rigors of camp life, and entries in general are long and descriptive. The Anknin Company explored an abandoned Pawnee village and was also visited by a war party of 300 Dakota Indians, with whom they traded food for moccasins and buffalo robes.
Dates:
1849
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Nancy Alexander Tracy autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2214
Scope and Contents
Includes an eighty-two-page holograph, plus a photocopy and a typed copy. Nancy Tracy reflects on her early life in New York state; marriage to Moses Tracy, 1832; conversion to Mormonism, 1834; occasional interactions with Joseph Smith Jr.; and experiences with her husband in New York, 1844. Includes information on her activities in Kirtland, Ohio; Far West, Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Winter Quarters, Nebraska; and Ogden, Utah. She also comments on her emigration to...
Dates:
1885
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Nancy Alexander Tracy autobiography
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 3218
Scope and Contents
Autobiography of Nancy Naomi Tracy (1816-1902), typed and edited by her great-grandson William C. Anderson. Describes her life, from her birth on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario in New York. She married Moses Tracy and both were early converts to the Mormon Church. They were acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith; served a mission in New York; lived in Kirtland, Missouri, and Nauvoo; and later made the trek to Salt Lake, eventually settling in Ogden, Utah.
Dates:
1885
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Nancy Alexander Tracy autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 918
Scope and Contents
Typescript of autobiography. Nancy was born in New York and raised by her grandparents. She married Moses Tracy in 1832 and joined the Mormon Church in 1834. She lived in Kirtland, Ohio; Far West, Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; "Winter Quarters"; and Ogden, Utah. She witnessed and experienced some of the persecutions of Mormons in Missouri and Illinois. She went with her husband on a mission to New York and was a member of the Mormon Relief Society in Nauvoo. She covers her life until 1860.
Dates:
1885
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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