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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
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
James Whittaker diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7440
Abstract
Photocopy of the James Whittaker diary, tracing Whittaker's life from January 1851 to July 1852.
Dates:
1851-1852
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Harriet Whittemore letters
Collection — Reel: 000 832
Identifier: MSS FM 3
Scope and Contents
Microfilm copy of handwritten letters from members of the Mack, Smith, Bailey, Covey, Cooper, and Dort families written to Harriet Whittemore of Pontiac, Michigan. These letters are from individuals who lived in New England, Illinois, Missouri, and Utah. One letter is from Hyrum Smith, a Mormon Church leader. They contain news of family members, timely events, and weather.
Dates:
1817-1865
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
Clarissa Harden Wilhelm autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 546
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of an autobiography. Wilhelm writes about her youth in New York, her joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1838, her move to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844, and her subsequent migration to Utah. She also tells about her various marriages and her life in Salt Lake City, Spanish Fork, Springville, St. George, and Orderville, Utah. She also talks of living in St. Joseph, Arizona.
Dates:
1888
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Clarissa Harden Wilhelm diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1570
Scope and Contents
Diary of Clarissa Harden Wilhelm, an early member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and pioneer. The diary, although written between 1888 and 1895, chronicles her life from an early age. The first part of the diary is written as an autobiography and describes her life up to the 1880s. She describes her conversion to the Church and her subsequent travel to Utah. It also includes a 2-page business account, dated July - September 1882. The second part of the diary is a...
Dates:
1882-1895; 1971-1976
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Byron J. Wilson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7727
Content Description
Collection contains three books written by Byron J. Wilson: The Early History of the Sylvester Wilson and the History of Wilsonville, Utah, The First Families Into Jackson Hole, and the Chronological History of Amos Davis, Jr.
Dates:
2008
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Leopold Wirthlin letter
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 694
Scope and Contents
TLS. to Kate B. Carter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers regarding a book of pioneer histories, and his praise for and desire that young people learn of Latter-day Saint pioneer history.
Dates:
1957
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lynn Stephen Wood autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1701
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography and typescript. The document talks about Wood's family, his life in the eastern U.S., his conversion to the Mormon Church, and his migration to Utah.
Dates:
1901
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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