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Annie Miller Ottosen biographies
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 958
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of handwritten and typewritten biographies of family members including sketches of Niels Peter Miller (1837-1921), Ellen Anderson Miller (1833-1929) and Ellen Anderson (1805-1890). These were Mormons who migrated to Utah from Denmark.
Dates:
1910
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Rosy Antle diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 919
Scope and Contents
Photocopied from the typescript of Rosy's diary, this collection consists of a daily account of the affairs, difficulties, deaths, and friendships of the people in a wagon train during the 1860's. She is specific as to time and distance travelled, tolls paid for the passage of the wagon, the weather, and her health, commenting frequently about the heat and that she had a "sick headache."
Dates:
1865
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Patience Loader Archer autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 3238
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten autobiography. Patience tells about her early life in England and her conversion to the Mormon Church. She presents one of the best accounts from the Martin handcart company and goes into considerable detail on the ordeal. Patience tells about the rescue and the continuous efforts of the people in the ill-fated handcart company to survive. She also writes about her arrival in Salt Lake City, Utah, and about the efforts by Brigham Young,...
Dates:
1872
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Patience Loader Archer autobiography : photocopy of holograph
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3221
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a photocopy of a handwritten autobiography written by Patience Loader Rozsa Archer. The original autobiography consists of three notebooks: one stationary tablet, and two ledger bound notebooks. The contents deal with her life, experiences, and recollections. The autobiography seems to be taken from diaries, as there is a great deal of detail. It records part of the life of Patience Archer. It tells of her childhood in England, sea voyage to New York, and crossing of...
Dates:
1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Arizona historian tells of early 'Mormon' settlement in that section : gives high praise to pioneers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 804
Scope and Contents
Partial transcript of a speech given by McClintock at an LDS stake conference in Phoeniz, Arizona, February 6, [1920]. Reviews the role of the Mormon pioneers in settling Arizona and their accomplishments.
Dates:
approximately 1920
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography : Alice Tomlison Armstrong, native pioneer
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2516
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Alice Tomlison was born in 1857 in England. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and she migrated to Utah and settled in American Fork. She married Joseph Armstrong in 1871 and died in 1941.
Dates:
1941
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Armstrong family histories
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 594
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biographical sketches of Mormon pioneers John Christopher and Mary Kirkbride Armstrong and of their son and daughter-in-law, John Graham and Mary Jane Simkins Armstrong by James V. Armstrong and Marcia Armstrong Jolley. Tells of emigration of John Sr. and wife from England to Utah, of his service as bugler in Parley P. Pratt's Southern Utah Exploration Company, LDS church mission to England and death enroute home. Describes John Graham's work as a stagecoach driver and law...
Dates:
Date not identified
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography : John Armstrong and wife Mary Hellen Wilson Armstrong, pioneer 1853
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2514
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. John Armstrong was born in England in 1848. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1853 and later settled in American Fork. He married Mary Helen Wilson. Mary Wilson was born in 1848 in Philadelphia, and she died in 1919. He died in 1940.
Dates:
1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography : Joseph H. Armstrong, pioneer 1853
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2515
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Joseph H. Armstrong was born in England in 1850. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1853. They suffered many harships on the way. The family settled in American Fork, Utah, in 1862. He was a carpenter and a farmer, and he died in 1933.
Dates:
1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James Lindsay papers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 805
Scope and Contents
Handwritten histories, a newspaper clipping, a biography of Agnes Watson Lindsay (1852-1940), and an autobiography of James Lindsay (1849-1938). James Lindsay was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Scotland. He migrated to Utah in 1862; settled in Heber City, Utah; and participated in the Black Hawk War against the Ute Indians. Some of the materials relate to the mail service in Heber City.
Dates:
1893-1931
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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