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Irene Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 7810
Scope and Contents
Collection contains research materials and manuscripts for the Unofficial Manual for Bishops' wives, which includes articles, surveys, and correspondence. The collection also includes Adams' personal journals. Materials dated 1968-2011.
Dates:
1968-2011
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Hortt Adams personal history
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2986
Scope and Contents
Narrative and photographic images concerning his childhood in Kanab, Utah; attendance at Brigham Young University; living in Hollywood, California; service in the U.S. Navy during World War II; marriage; travels; church service, including a Latter-day Saint mission to Seattle, Washington, 1989-1990; owning and running Grandview Miniature Golf Course in Provo, Utah; and working as accountant at BYU Financial Services. Also contains significant information about his family, including an...
Dates:
1997
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Adoption record from Manti Temple
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1937
Scope and Contents
Handwritten temple record. The item verifies that four women were adopted by proxy as daughters of the Mormon Apostle, Daniel H. Wells, and his wife, Eliza Wells. The four women were from the Lee family and died between 1847 and 1859.
Dates:
1901
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Andrew Jackson Allen autobiography and diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3213
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript of an autobiography and diary. Allen writes about his youth in Kentucky and move to Missouri after he joined the Mormon Church. He later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and joined the Mormon exodus to Utah in 1847. He tells about the hardships of early settlement in Salt Lake City, Utah. His diary starts in 1857. It has many gaps and entries were often months apart. He writes about the "Utah War;" his work on the railroad in 1868 and 1869; his...
Dates:
1857-1884
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Coleman Allen biography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 769
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of short typewritten biography. Crossed the plains to Utah with the pioneers as a child in 1847, settled with family in Mill Creek Canyon and, in 1851, in Draper. In 1876, called by Brigham Young to head the colonization of the Little Colorado River settlements in Arizona. Moved back to Draper in 1884.
Dates:
1843-1917
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
J. Urban Allred diaries
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2909
Scope and Contents
Volume begins with autobiographical sketch concerning Allred's early life in Lehi, Utah. Diaries document his attendance at Brigham Young Academy, September 1892-May 1898; service as a Mormon missionary in Tennessee in the Southern States Mission, June 1898-July 1900; activities as a school teacher in Vernal, Utah, August 1900-May 1901; family life with Amelia May Hammond in Lehi, 1901-1910; and family life with Edna Bingham in Raymond, Alberta, and elsewhere, beginning in 1912. Diaries also...
Dates:
1892-1956
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
O. J. Anderson and family
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1563
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten biography of Olaf J. Anderson, including information about his two wives Kathinka and Nathalia and several of their children. She presents the history of the family's "Anderson Hotel" in Castle Dale, Utah and Olaf's and Kathinka's mission for the Mormon Church in Copenhagen, Denmark where he edited the Mormon newspaper, "Scandinavian Star," 1908-1912.
Dates:
1980
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Richard B. Anderson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8430
Content Description
Collection contains correspondence between Anderson and his parents as well as other family members. Other letters included are from various family members to other family members and document their lives at the time including school, work, family life, and missions. Also included are newspaper clippings and articles particularly related to Richard's parents (H. Duane and Leola Seely Anderson) and their service as mission president and matron in the French Mission, and a diary kept by his...
Dates:
1918-1991
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Autobiographies of Alma W. King and Lucille Olson King
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2991
Scope and Contents
Autobiography of Alma King contains memories of his childhood near Garland, Utah; church service, including a Latter-day Saint Mission to the Hawaiian Islands, 1923-1926; attendance at BYU, 1926-1930 and 1933-1936, and the University of Chicago, 1939-1940; teaching LDS seminary at Bear River High School, 1930-1956; marriage; travels; and employment in the Dean of Students office at BYU, 1956-1972. Autobiography of Lucille King contains memories of her childhood in Provo, Utah; attendance at...
Dates:
1999
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James I. Steel autobiography and family records
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 516
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography with family records apparently also copied by Steel. James Steel converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England and migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1854. He later settled in Tooele County, Utah. Steel entered into polygamy in 1874. Also included are ordinations and patriarchal blessings of family members. Steel also writes about his visions and dreams.
Dates:
1879-1910
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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