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Whirl around the world : a trip taken by Nellie Harper and Myrtle Goddard
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7255
Scope and Contents
Collection includes a bound photocopy of Nellie Harper's 1931 journal and scrapbook of her "around the world" trip. Extended and thoughtful typewritten journal entries, with photographs and related ephemera, document her experiences with her traveling companion, Myrtle Goddard, as they traveled by ship, rail, and bus from the United States to Japan, China, the Philippines, Singapore-Penang, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Wales, and the United States. ...
Dates:
1931-2009
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Short life sketch of John S. Whilte, Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3204
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of typescript of a microfilm copy. The collection is a biography of John S. White and Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White. "John S. White Sen., member of Company C. Iowa Volunteers (Mormon Batallion) in Mexican War, 1846, Utah Pioneer." "Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White, member of Grant's Company of Utah Pioneers." The couple lived in Farmington, Utah.
Dates:
1927
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Samuel Dennis White
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 520
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a sketch of White's life and comments about his parents.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Clarissa Alger Whitney : wife of Francis Tuft Whitney, daughter of Samuel and Clarissa Hancock Alger
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3084
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm of a typewritten manuscript. The item is a biography of Clarissa Alger Whitney by an unknown author. The date of composition is uncertain. Clarissa was born on 2 June 1830 in "The East and grew up in the environment of danger, mobbings, journeys attendant to the removal of the Saints from Nauvoo [Illinois], the Morley and Hancock settlements, Winter Quarters [Nebraska], and the crossing of the Great American desert to the Great Salt Lake Valley." One of her...
Dates:
approximately 1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
History of Sarah Elizabeth Gurr Whitney
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3086
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten document. The item is a biography of Sarah Elizabeth Gurr Whitney. Sarah's earliest memories were when she was on board the Janiford, a ship sailing from Sidney, Australia, to San Francisco, California. The journey took 103 days. She came with the "Australian Company" to Parowan, Utah, late in 1857. "Sarah E. Gurr was born in Sidney Australia, February 13, 1855 and was only two years old when she arrived in Parowan, Utah." At age fourteen "she...
Dates:
1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James Whittaker diaries
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2582
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of handwritten diaries, newspaper clippings, and a biography. Some of the diaries were kept in the pitman form of shorthand. Whittaker made two journeys from England to the United States, once in 1842 and again in 1851. He kept diaries of these trips and of crossing the continent to Utah in 1851. Also included is a biography of Whittaker by Charlotte Chatterly Perkins Jones.
Dates:
1842-1880
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Eli Wiggill autobiography
Collection
Identifier: MSS 9137
Content Description
Four-volume handwritten autobiography of Eli Wiggill. Includes an account of the emigration from England of the settlers of South Africa, the wars and events of South Africa, the arrival of missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Africa, immigration to the United States and travel on the Mormon Trail, the diamond works in South Africa, and an account of familial events in Utah. The record was created by Wiggill in 1883, one year prior to his death. Also...
Dates:
1883
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Eli Wiggill autobiography typescript
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 504
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of an autobiography. Wiggill was born in England and migrated to South Africa where he joined the Mormon Church. He came to Utah in 1861 and worked as a wagon maker there. His account gives a lot of detail on his activities as a Mormon in South Africa, his journey to Utah, and his subsequent life in that state.
Dates:
1883
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Charles H. Wilcken papers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1125
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of newspaper clippings and miscellaneous documents relating to the lives of Charles W. Wilcken and his son David. The clippings largely tell of the life of Charles while many of the miscellaneous items relate to the marriage, Church activities, and employment of David.
Dates:
1864-1933
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Interesting incidents from the life of William Wilcock
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3083
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten manuscript. The item is a biography of William Wilcock "as Related by Simon A. Matheson of Parowan And As Samuel Wilcock Remembers His Father." William was born in Ince, England, on 10 October 1830. He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 22 September 1857. He migrated to the United States in 1857 and to Parowan, Utah, in 1859. He was a member of the Parowan choir. He married Elizabeth Sharp on 5...
Dates:
approximately 1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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