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Edwin Smith Hinckley papers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 352
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, speeches, reports, and biographies. These materials relate to Hinckley's work at Brigham Young University as a faculty member and on the Alumni Association Board of Directors, as superintendent of the Utah State Industrial School, and as secretary of the Provo Chamber of Commerce. The biographies are eulogies given by Hinckley's friends and associates.
Dates:
1892-1962
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Emma McDowell Jacobsen histories
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 520
Scope and Contents
Typewritten records. Jacobsen, working for the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, compiled a list of the names of early pioneers who were buried in the Provo City cemetery in Provo, Utah, from 1849 to 1859. Also included is a history of the first deaths and burials in Provo, Utah. The old city cemetery was first located on the hill where Brigham Young University was later built.
Dates:
1949-1965
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
History of Provo
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1826
Scope and Contents
Typewritten history of Provo, Utah. The item includes one map and a number of newspaper clippings. The history was written for a sociology class.
Dates:
1945
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Whitmer Hoover papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 362
Scope and Contents
Letters, cash receipts, account books, deeds, certificates, memorabilia, indentures, and miscellaneous notes. The materials were created when Hoover and his family resided in Provo, Utah, when he operated the Excelsior Roller Mills in that city. The items relate to the operation of the mill and to family matters.
Dates:
1867-1920
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
J. M. Jensen biography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1474
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten funeral address about Lars Echert Eggertsen. Jensen talks of Eggertsen's upbringing, his education, his position in the Provo City schools, and his ecclesiastical standing in the Mormon Church.
Dates:
1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David John diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 21
Scope and Contents
Materials include five volumes of handwritten diaries kept by John from 1856 until his death in 1908. Contents include an autobiographical sketch, descriptions of migration to Utah, missions served in Wales and Great Britain, arrest, trial, and imprisonment for polygamy, and experiences while serving in various religious or political capacities. Includes information pertaining to ordinations, blessings, and speeches given, letters sent or received, and dreams or visions received. Volumes 1-4...
Dates:
1856-1951; Majority of material found within 1856-1908
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Bengt Johnson autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 917
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of a holograph autobiography. Bengt Johnson Sr. was a Swedish convert to the Mormon Church and was baptized in 1854. He came to Utah in 1862 and settled in Provo. His account largely tells of his adjustment to Mormonism.
Dates:
1910
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Albert Jones diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 346
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries, an autobiography, and correspondence. Jones wrote his autobiography in 1881. Jones served in the Utah Militia during the Black Hawk War and had numerous occupations and positions in the Mormon Church. His diaries start in 1884 when he was called to serve on a mission for the Mormon Church in England. Many entries are lengthy and detailed. Jones addresses numerous topics including the polygamy question in Utah. Also included are correspondence, patriarchal blessings, and...
Dates:
1881-1925
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Albert Stephen Jones papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 350
Scope and Contents
Contains diaries and photographs, including twenty stereographs, documenting Jones's experience as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Samoa and Tonga from 1893 to 1896. The diaries detail his daily activities and talk about the nature of his work. Jones continued to write in these diaries after his return to Provo, Utah until 1902. The collections also contains a handwritten Tongan-English dictionary copied by Jones and a 1895 article on Tongan cannibalism...
Dates:
1893-1902
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Albert William Jones diaries and scrapbooks
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 347
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary and scrapbooks. Jones writes a biography of his father, Albert Jones (1839-1925), and then writes an autobiography of his own life up to the 1890s when his diary begins. The early entries are retrospective, and the actual diary begins some time later. Most entries are short and relate to activities in Provo, Utah. Also included are thirty nine scrapbooks, most of which start in the 1920s and are arranged by subject. These items consist largely of newspaper clippings...
Dates:
approximately 1903-1964
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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