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Herman Thorup journal

 File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 3709
Scope and Contents

Typewritten transcript of Herman Thorup's journal for the period of 1879 to 1929; documents his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Denmark, as well as his life in Salt Lake City, Utah; his arrest, trial, and imprisonment for "unlawful cohabitation"; his work as a florist and nurseryman; the impact of the Edmunds Tucker Act; Utah politics; his own political activities; his volunteer work; and his family and spiritual life.

Dates: 1879-1929

Genevieve Tietjen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1857
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, speeches, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, biographies, autobiographies, and patriarchal blessings for the Mormon Church. The materials relate to Genevieve Tietjen and her husband, Henry Roland Tietjen, particularly when Henry served as a mission president for the Mormon Church in Hawaii. The biographies and autobiographies relate largely to Sarah' ancestors.

Dates: 1857-1982

John Urie letters

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2370
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letters written to Urie's wife, Priscilla, and to his mother. Two of the items were written while Urie was on a mission for the Mormon Church in Glasgow, Scotland. The remaining items were written in Cedar City, Utah. Urie writes about personal and family matters and also about his activities and community affairs.

Dates: 1873-1891

John Van Cott papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1743
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diaries, and a family history. The correspondence is between Van Cott and family members. Also included are handwritten and signed letters from Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church, to Van Cott. The diaries cover the time when Van Cott served as a missionary for the Mormon Church from 1852 to 1856 and from 1859 to 1862. He was in Iowa City, Iowa, when the first handcart companies left for Utah.

Dates: 1838-1913

Thomas Vickers journal

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 3822
Abstract

The Thomas Vickers journal, 1885-1897 (bulk 1885-1887), includes entries recording his mission experiences, such as appointments, results of meetings, traveling "without purse-or-scrip," individuals contacts, etc. Post-mission entries (1887-1897) document family, work, and life, in Nephi, Utah.

Dates: 1885-1897

We two became one

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2368
Scope and Contents

Autobiography details memories of his childhood in Arizona; his mission to the Eastern States Mission; church service; their teaching career; and family life. It also discusses his teaching religion at Brigham Young University.

Dates: 2001

Orson F. Whitney diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1825
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten diaries and an autobiography. Whitney writes about his missions for the Mormon Church to the Eastern United States and to Great Britain. He also served as president of the European Mission. Whitney also tells about his dreams, his service in various political positions, and his numerous positions in the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1877-1931

Orson F. Whitney papers

 Collection — Box: 5
Identifier: MSS 15
Scope and Contents

Materials include correspondence, blessings, missionary certificates, letters, scrapbooks, poetry, other writings, newspaper clippings, documents, travel souvenirs, and other materials owned, written by, or relating to Orson F. Whitney, his family, and his acquaintances. Dated approximately 1842-1931.

Dates: approximately 1842-1964

William Henry Wright diary

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1347
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary. Wright writes about his activities as a missionary for the Mormon Church serving in Wisconsin and England. The original is in possession of James W. Petty in Ogden, Utah.

Dates: 1882-1883

Brigham Young letter to John R. Young

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 780
Scope and Contents Material contains a handwritten and signed letter dated March 1, 1857, addressed to John R. Young in Honolulu, Hawaii. The item was composed in Salt Lake City, Utah. Brigham Young encourages John, his nephew, and his fellow missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii by making comparisons between the "quiet and purity that prevail in Utah" and the "gross darkness" that covers the other people of the Earth. He comments on the missionary work of the Church in...
Dates: 1857 March 1

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Salt Lake City (Utah) -- History 8
Correspondence 7
Patriarchal blessings (Mormon Church) -- History 7
Utah -- History -- 19th century 7
Certificates 6
Provo (Utah) -- History 6
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 5
Immigration and American Expansion 5
Pioneers 5
Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History 5
Utah -- History 5
Home and Family 4
Mormon missionaries -- Great Britain -- History 4
Mormons -- Arizona -- History 4
Nephi (Utah) -- History 4
Patriarchal blessings (Mormon Church) 4
Poetry 4
Social Life and Customs 4
Utah -- History -- 20th century 4
Cedar City (Utah) -- History 3
Denmark -- History -- 19th century 3
Educators -- Utah -- History 3
Hawaii -- History 3
Histories (Literary works) 3
Mormon Church -- Missions -- Germany -- History 3
Mormon families -- History 3
Mormon missionaries -- England -- Diaries 3
Mormon missionaries -- England -- History 3
Mormon women -- Utah -- History 3
Mormons -- Utah -- Salt Lake City -- History 3
Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History 3
Notes 3
Ogden (Utah) -- History 3
Postcards 3
Publications 3
Speeches, addresses, etc., American 3
Transcripts 3
Typescripts 3
American Fork (Utah) -- History 2
Articles 2
Beaver (Utah) -- History 2
City and Town Life 2
Education -- Utah -- History -- Sources 2
Evangelistic work -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History 2
Evangelistic work -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History -- 19th century 2
Logan (Utah) -- History 2
Missionary stories -- Mormon authors 2
Mormon Church -- Missions -- Denmark -- History 2
Mormon Church -- Missions -- East (U.S.) -- History 2
Mormon Church -- Missions -- Switzerland -- History 2
Mormon missionaries 2
Mormon missionaries -- Denmark -- Diaries 2
Mormon missionaries -- East (U.S.) -- Diaries 2
Mormon missionaries -- East (U.S.) -- History 2
Mormon missionaries -- Great Britain 2
Mormon missionaries -- Hawaii -- Diaries 2
Mormon missionaries -- Southern States -- Diaries 2
Mormon missionaries -- Texas -- Diaries 2
Mormon pioneers -- Utah -- History -- 19th century 2
Mormon women -- Utah -- Monticello -- History 2
Mormons -- Correspondence 2
Mormons -- Denmark -- History 2
Mormons -- Hawaii -- History 2
Omaha (Neb.) -- History 2
Oral histories 2
Politicians -- Utah -- History 2
Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2
Saint George (Utah) -- History 2
Scrapbooks 2
Summit County (Utah) -- History 2
Tooele (Utah) -- History 2
United orders (Mormon Church) -- Arizona -- History 2
Utah -- Politics and government -- 19th century 2
Utah -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Account books 1
Agriculture 1
Agriculture and Natural Resources 1
Alpine (Utah) -- History 1
American Fork (Utah) 1
American poetry -- 19th century 1
American poetry -- 20th century 1
Arizona -- History -- To 1912 1
Armenia -- History -- 1901 1
Artists -- Utah -- History 1
Big Cottonwood Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah) -- History -- Sources 1
Black Hawk War (Utah), 1865-1872 1
Blanding (Utah) -- History 1
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Language
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Danish 2
Multiple languages 1
Norwegian 1
 
Names
Brigham Young Academy 4
Brigham Young University 3
Tanner, George S. 3
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 3
Callis, Charles A. 2
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Turkish Mission 2
Hawaii Temple (Laie, Hawaii) 2
Taylor, John, 1808-1887 2
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson), 1855-1931 2
Woodruff, Wilford, 1807-1898 2
Adams, Arza, 1804-1889 1
Adams, Charles, 1843-1927 1
Adams, Thomas, 1860-1906 1
Adams, William, 1822-1901 1
American Institute of Cooperation 1
Andrew, Ethel Bean, 1888-1978 1
Atkin, William Frank, 1878-1966 1
Bean, Mary Hannah Baker, 1868-1934 1
Bean, Victor Emanuel, 1864-1918 1
Belliston, Albert Henry, 1876-1965 1
Black Pine, chief of the Utes 1
Boley, Elisha H. (Elisha Henry), 1888-1960 1
Booth, Joseph W. (Joseph Wilford), 1866-1928 1
Bowles, Catherine, 1915-2006 1
Brigham Young Academy. South American Expedition (1900-1901) 1
Brookbank, Thomas W. 1
Bunting, James Lovett, 1832-1923 1
Burgess, Donna Miles, 1883-1959 1
Burgess, Ernest H. (Ernest Hungate), 1884-1931 1
Butler, William, 1825-1905 1
Cannon, Abraham H. (Abraham Hoagland), 1859-1896 1
Card, Charles Ora, 1839-1906 1
Chandler, Calvin Harris, 1877-1940 1
Christensen, Randall 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. First Council of the Seventy 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. San Juan Stake (Utah) 1
Clark, Edward W. (Edward Watkin), 1820-1909 1
Clark, Franklin, 1859-1945 1
Cluff, Benjamin, Jr., 1858-1948 1
Colton, Hugh W. (Hugh Wilkens), 1901-1990 1
Coolbrith, Ina D. (Ina Donna), 1841-1928 1
Crane, George, 1832-1919 1
Crosby, Caroline Barnes, 1807-1884 1
Crosby, Jonathan 1
Dalley, Abram F. (Abram Fitzgerald), 1911-2000 1
Dalley, Sadie, 1911-2004 1
DeWitt, Abel Alexander 1
DeWitt, Ruth Leila Kempe, 1880-1943 1
Eccles, William Elmer, 1886-1912 1
Edmonds, Clyde C. (Clyde Candland), 1890-1973 1
Erickson, Einar, 1847-1931 1
Evans, Israel Franklin 1
Evans, John, 1829- 1
Evans, Priscilla Livingston 1
Fairbanks, John B. (John Boylston), 1855-1940 1
Farnsworth, Burton K. (Burton Kent), 1890-1945 1
Farnsworth, Mabel Pearce 1
Francis, Esther Charlotte Emily Weisbrodt, 1836-1913 1
Francis, Samuel 1
Giles, John Thomas, 1865-1948 1
Gledhill, Thomas, 1856-1933 1
Grace, Isaac Henry 1
Greenwood, Alma 1
Greenwood, Florence 1
Halliday, George, 1823-1900 1
Hammond family 1
Hammond, Alice Howard, 1845-1873 1
Hammond, Francis Asbury, 1822-1900 1
Hammond, Martha Jensina Marcussan, 1850-1935 1
Hammond, Mary Jane Dilworth, 1831-1877 1
Hansen, Blanche McBeth 1
Hansen, Hans Martin, 1856-1939 1
Hansen, Laray M. 1
Harris, Martin, 1783-1875 1
Hintze, F. F. (Ferdinand Friis), 1854- 1
Hintze, F. F. (Ferdinand Friis), 1881- 1
Hintze, Lehi F. 1
Hoffman family 1
Holbrook, Alsina Elisabeth, 1876-1960 1
Holbrook, Lafayette Hinckley, 1877-1969 1
Holliday family 1
Homer, William H. (William Harrison), 1875-1964 1
Homer, William H. (William Harrison),1845-1934 1
Isgreen family 1
Jackman, Levi, 1797-1876 1
Jenkins, David Hyrum 1
Jones, Thomas R. (Thomas Rose), 1879-1967 1
Kamehameha V, King of the Hawaiian Islands, 1830-1872 1
Kempe, Christopher Jensen, 1837-1901 1
Kirkham, Avery J. 1
Kirkham, Bessie L. 1
Kirkham, Denzil W. 1
Kirkham, George, 1852-1923 1
Kirkham, Lott R. 1
Kirkham, Mary Russon 1
Kirkham, Maude L. 1
Kirkham, Oliver G. 1
Kirkham, Raymond L. 1
Kirkham, Sarah R. (Sarah Russon), 1857-1929 1
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