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Biographies of William Edward Jones and Mary Jones Jones
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3203
Scope and Contents
Gives a brief history of Edward and Mary Jones from the time they lived in Wales to Edward's death in Utah. It includes their conversion to the Mormon Church, their emmigration to the United States, their trek across the plains and settlement in Parowan, Utah. There Edward took on two more wives (Eliza Newman and Sarah Davis). This history relates several experiences of living in a polygamist household. After the United States outlawed polygamy Edward was arrested twice but released both...
Dates:
approximately 1960
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lake family biographies
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 768
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of typescript. Contains biographies of James Lake (1788-1874); Philomelia Smith Lake (1794-1873); James Lake, Sr. (1760- ); and George Lake (1838-1898) written by some of their grandchildren. Also includes autobiography of George Lake (1838-1898).
Discusses the family's genealogy; their conversion to the Mormon Church in 1832; their migration with the Mormons to Ohio, Illinois, and Utah; illnesses and deaths in the family; life on the Utah frontier; George's mission in Great...
Dates:
1760-1898
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Legal proceedings on Brigham Young estate
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1267
Scope and Contents
Incomplete printed legal proceedings on the estate of Brigham Young, conducted in 1879 in the Utah Territory.
Dates:
1879
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Life of William Howell
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1122
Scope and Contents
Biography of William Howell (1816-1851) by his grandson, William Louis Howell. William Howell was born in Wales and was converted to the Mormon Church. He was active in that faith and died in 1851 near Kanesville, Iowa, while moving with the Mormons to Utah.
Dates:
approximately 1920
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Hans Peter Lund autobiography
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8533
Scope and Contents
Contains the autobiography of early pioneer Hans Peter Lund. Includes information on his two LDS missions to Denmark, travels with the Horace S. Eldredge wagon company, and a detailed account of Lund's personal expenses. Materials dated approximately 1870-1880.
Dates:
approximately 1870-1880
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Albert R. Lyman histories
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1371
Scope and Contents
Typewritten family histories. Lyman writes about the Edward Patridge and Lucretia Hancock Robinson families. These families were early converts to the Mormon Church. They suffered persecutions, lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, came to Utah, and settled in Fillmore, Utah.
Dates:
1952
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
D. M. McAllister galley proofs
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1259
Scope and Contents
Galley proofs of an article by McAllister which was published in the September 1917 issue of the Improvement Era, A Mormon Church periodical. The article explains that Mormon temple ordinances are essential to salvation. The sheets bear holograph corrections and a note by Joseph F. Smith, the 6th president of the Mormon Church. Smith's note suggests that the article be published as a four page tract.
Dates:
1917
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Cyrena Dustin Merrill autobiography
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2180
Scope and Contents
Autobiography by Cyrena Dustin Merrille, including her experience joining the Mormon Church in 1837, time spent in Far West, Missouri, Nauvoo, Illinois, Winter Quarters, Nebraska, and her migration to Salt Lake City, Utah. She describes the impact of a measles outbreak among Ute Indians in Salt Lake City in 1851, and an 1876 move to Arizona with her family. Also included is a genealogy of the Merrill family. Dated 1898 to 1907.
Dates:
1898-1907
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Hart Miles papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1459
Scope and Contents
The collection includes journals, biographical information, genealogical materials and a mission record.
Dates:
1861-1936
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jessie E. Murphy diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1010
Scope and Contents
Holograph diary. Murphy describes his activities as a missionary for the Mormon Church in the Southern States Mission.
Dates:
1867-1869
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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