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Biography of Martha Carless Webb : came to Utah 1867

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2476
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Martha Carless was born in England in 1831 and married William Rawlings Webb in 1854. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1860, migrated to Utah in 1867, and settled in American Fork. She died in 1905.

Dates: 1935

Biographical sketch of the life of William R. Webb

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3344
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. William R. Webb was born in England in 1829, married Martha Carless in 1854, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1860. He migrated to Utah in 1867 and settled in American Fork. He took a second wife, returned to England in 1886 as a missionary for the Mormon Church, and died in 1915. Also included is a poem written by Webb to "Sister Ellen Barrett on Her Fiftieth Birthday."

Dates: 1929

Emmeline B. Wells diary typescripts

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1407
Abstract

Includes two linear feet of unedited typed transcripts including the years 1844-1846 and 1874-1920. Her entries are daily, tell of her activities, and often present her opinions and impressions as well. The accounts are often lengthy and detailed. The 1882 diary also includes entries by Well's daughter, Louisa.

Dates: 1844-1920

Biography of Eliza Faulkner Welsh

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3339
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobiography. Eliza Faulkner Welsh was born in Halifax County, Nova Scotia, in 1843. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1855 and left for Utah the same year. She tells about the hardships of the migration to Utah and the many deaths from Cholera in her family. She died in American Fork, Utah, in 1927.

Dates: 1920

Peter Mastin Wentz diary

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 802
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a diary. Wentz left Binghamton, New York, in 1853. He travelled to Dunkirk, New York, and then to Ashley, Indiana. He took steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1854 and described the buildings in Nauvoo, Illinois. He later settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1855. He migrated to Utah the same year.

Dates: 1853-1855

Biographies of John Wesley and wife, Eliza Ebbey Phillips

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2704
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten dual biography. John Wesley Phillips was born in New Jersey in 1843, migrated to Utah in 1862, and settled in American Fork. He married Eliza Ann Ebbey in 1867. She came to Utah in 1848. John died in 1899.

Dates: 1944

Biography : Wiliam Weston and Hanna A. Wilbert

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2500
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a dual biography by an unknown author. William Weston was born in 1836 in Canad and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1855. He later migrated to Utah and settled in American Fork. He met and married Hanna A. Wilbert, but they had no children. They later adopted Lemuel. William died in 1905.

Dates: 1935

Edson Whipple diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 691
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typescripts of diaries and biographies of Whipple. The first part of his diary tells the story of his early life including living in Nauvoo, Illinois. Includes six items, with content dating from between 1842 and 1851.

Dates: 1842-1851

Nelson Wheeler Whipple diaries

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 38
Scope and Contents

Two different typescripts of the same diary kept by Whipple: one prepared by Phyllis Clayton Pettit, the other by Anor Whipple. The diary gives genealogical data about Nelson Whipple's ancestors and tells of his early experiences in the Latter-day Saint Church, his move to Nauvoo, Illinois, his journey across the Plains to Utah and his life there.

Dates: 1863-1867

Willard Whipple Sr., March 16, 1858-April 15, 1941

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 509
Scope and Contents

Contains the life sketch of a Mormon colonizer of Snowflake, Arizona, genealogical information and a copy of journal entries, 1880-1941.

Dates: undated

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L. Tom Perry Special Collections 938
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Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 35
Timpson, Laura Logie, 1886-1973 28
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 20
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United States. Army. Mormon Battalion 18
Jones, Edith Boley, 1892-1973 16
Shelley, Charlotte D. 13
James G. Willie Emigrating Company 12
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Tanner, George S. 8
United States. Army 7
Warnick, Lurena Eldredge 7
Cannon, George Q. (George Quayle), 1827-1901 6
Clayson, Ruby Thornton Brown, 1889-1976 6
Daughters of Utah Pioneers 6
Wright, June S. 6
Buckwalter, Eliza W. 5
Okey, Cynthia Adams 5
Seastrand, Myrtle R. 5
Smith family 5
Zion's Camp (Expedition) (1834) 5
Allison, Helen Taylor 4
Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941 4
Mott, Albert S. 4
Sager, Bertha N. 4
Utah. Militia 4
Wells, Daniel H. (Daniel Hanmer), 1814-1891 4
Alston, Louisa Grant 3
Beck, Alice Forbes Crosby 3
Brigham Young Academy 3
Clark, William, 1770-1838 3
Durham, Thomas, 1828-1909 3
Gardner, Nathan H. 3
Holt, James, 1804-1894 3
Kimball, Heber C. (Heber Chase), 1801-1868 3
Lee, John D. (John Doyle), 1812-1877 3
Meeks, Priddy, 1795-1886 3
Nauvoo Temple (Nauvoo, Ill. : 1841-1850) 3
Penrod, Rose 3
Peterson, James M. (James Morten), 1850-1899 3
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 3
Shrock, Thomas P. (Thomas Prather), 1816-1884 3
Smith, George Albert, 1817-1875 3
Wanless, Venina H. 3
Able, Mary E. S. 2
Adams, William, 1822-1901 2
Allred, James, 1784-1876 2
Andrus family 2
Archer, Patience Loader Rozsa, 1827-1921 2
Aydelotte, Hannah 2
Backus, Russel Benson 2
Ballantyne, Richard, 1817-1898 2
Bradley, George Washington, 1813-1891 2
Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889 2
Brigham Young University 2
Butterfield, Jacob Kemp, 1813-1889 2
Call, Anson Vasco, 1834-1867 2
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Cheney family 2
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Southern States Mission 2
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Cunningham, George 2
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Day, Alphonse B. 2
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Dean, Amy Dickerson 2
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Durrant, Ella E., 1893-1963 2
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Emmett, James, 1803-1852 2
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Gallup, Luke William, 1822-1891 2
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Graham, John C. (John Crosthwaite), 1839-1906 2
Greenwood, Jane L. R. (Jane Leah Robinson), 1882-1970 2
Greenwood, William, 1822-1891 2
Hamblin, Jacob, 1819-1886 2
Hansen, Ann Chipman 2
Hansen, Mary Ann Chipman 2
Hansen, Zella 2
Harmon, Jesse Perse, 1795-1877 2
Henrie, Myra Mayall 2
Hunt, Jefferson, 1804-1879 2
Hyde, Orson, 1805-1878 2
Illinois. Militia. Nauvoo Legion 2
Ingersoll, Nora B. 2
Jarvis, Ann Prior, 1829-1913 2
Johnson family 2
Johnson, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1905 2
Johnson, Joel H. (Joel Hills) 2
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