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Arza Adams autobiographies and diaries
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3260
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of microfilm copies of handwritten diaries. Adams joined the Mormon Church in 1836 and served as missionary for that faith in Canada. He moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and worked on the Nauvoo Temple. He came to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1849.
Dates:
approximately 1840-1858
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Y. Card diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1522
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries. Card lived in Logan and Salt Lake City, Utah and in Cardston, Alberta. He farmed and ran an insurance business. He held many positions in the Mormon Church including mission president of the Western Canadian Mission in Edmonton.
Dates:
1900-1956
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lee T. Cox collection of photographs from the Canadian Mission
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 8368
Scope and Contents
Materials include 73 photographs of Latter-day Saint missionaries between 1950 and 1952 and a newspaper clipping on Latter-day Saint missionaries. The missionaries have written notes to Lee T. Cox on the back of their photographs. 72 of the photographs are from the Canadian Mission. There is also a photocopy of a newspaper clipping of a Canadian Latter-day Saint basketball team.
Dates:
1950-1952
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Margaret Elizabeth Schutt Gordon papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8253
Content Description
Collection contains the autobiography of Margaret Elizabeth Schutt Gordon. The collection dates from 1866-1954 and accounts her life on the frontier in both Utah and Alberta, as well as financial and family hardships, church service, and transcontinental travel. Provides insight into the experience of Mormon women in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dated approximately 1866-1954.
Dates:
Approximately 1866-1954
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Thomas Hall diary
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2860
Scope and Contents
Account of his mission to Canada for the Mormon Church. Describes traveling east from Salt Lake City by handcart in the spring of 1857, and his missionary labors in Ontario, particularly in the vicinity of London.
Dates:
1857-1858
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Gabriel Huntsman diary
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 724
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries in two volumes. The earliest item is for the year 1857 when Huntsman was serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Iowa and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The later item covers the years 1871 and 1872 during which Huntsman was on a mission in Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana.
Dates:
1857-1872
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Francis McDonald papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1953
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, and ledgers. The items relate to McDonald's business activities, his personal life, and to his missionary activities for the Mormon Church in Canada.
Dates:
1894-1918
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Abel S. Rich journals
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8666
Scope and Contents
Contains four journals kept by Abel S. Rich during his mission presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Canada Mission headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Materials dated 1934-1938.
Dates:
1934-1938
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Charles Ursenbach collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3150
Scope and Contents
The collection contains additional diaries of Charles Ursenbach for the years 1923,1926,1970,1977, and 1978 (all of which are pocket-size); a copy of "A Collection of Hymns For the Use of People Called Bible Christians;" a photograph of Charles Ursenbach with other Latter-day Saint missionaries in Montreal, 1926; and genealogical information on the Ursenbach family and "My Story" by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, written in October 1957.
Dates:
1923-1985
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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