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An act authorizing Thomas Moore to erect a ferry on Green River

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1903
Scope and Contents

Original proclamation endorsed by Willard Richards, W. W. Phelps, and Brigham Young. The document is an act authorizing Thomas Moore to erect a ferry on the Green River. The act discusses the fares that would be charged for its use. The document also states the penalty for running unauthorized ferries.

Dates: 1852

Arza Adams diaries

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 729
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries in four volumes. Also included are photocopies of the materials. Adams mentions his youth and starts his diaries in 1830. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1836 and subsequently lived in Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, and came to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1849.

Dates: 1830-1844

Biography of John Olney Adams (native pioneer) and his wife, Mattie Marie Peterson

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2842
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. John Olney Adams was born in American Fork, Utah, in 1861 and Mattie Marie Peterson was born in 1864 in Denmark. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah. They married in 1884. John died in 1932 in Bingham, Utah, and Mattie died in 1928.

Dates: 1965

William Adams autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 569
Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography with a typescript of the item. Adams came from Ireland, migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, and later to Salt Lake Valley, Utah. He also lived in Springville, Spanish Fork, Parowan, and Cedar City, Utah. Adams writes about Jacob Hamblin's efforts to convert Indians, the preparations to meet the United States Army coming to Utah in 1857 and 1858, going on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and meeting Emma Hales Smith, the wife of the first...
Dates: 1894

Biography : Maregaret Hall Ruston Alston, came to Utah in 1850

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2512
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Maragaret Hall Rushton Alston was born in England. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated with her first husband, John Rushton, to the United States. He died in St. Louis, Missouri, and she arrived in Utah in 1850 and later settled in American Fork. She caught cold and died.

Dates: 1940

The American ancestry of Joseph Robison and his wife Lucretia Hancock

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1709
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of an unbound biography and two brief typed biographies of Joseph and Lucretia Robison, converts to the Mormon Church from New York state who settled in Utah. The large biography contains extensive genealogies of different related families.

Dates: 1958

Washington F. Anderson diary

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 40
Abstract

The collection contains a typewritten copy of a diary kept from 30 July to 12 August of 1857. Anderson writes about a company of Mormons travelling from Carson Valley, Nevada to Salt Lake City, Utah. He tells about Indian troubles and about the miles travelled every day.

Dates: 1857

Andrus family biographies

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 188
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typewritten biographies of family members. Persons in the Andrus family joined the Mormon Church, migrated to Utah, and settled in various areas. The dates of the composition of these items are uncertain.

Dates: approximately 1950

Catherine Ellen Camp Greer anecdotes and reminiscences

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 671
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Greer was born in Dresden, Tennessee, in 1837. After her parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she moved with them to Nauvoo, Illinois. She migrated to Utah in 1850 and settled in Bountiful. She later moved to southern Arizona where she lived in Woodruff.

Dates: 1921

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

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Diaries 72
Salt Lake City (Utah) -- History 59
Overland Journeys to the Western United States 56
Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History 47
Letters 46
Mormon pioneers -- History 46
Immigrants -- Utah 39
Photocopies 37
Utah -- Emigration and immigration 37
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 25
Mormons -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- History 25
Mormons -- Utah -- History 25
Social Life and Customs 24
Home and Family 23
Parowan (Utah) -- History 22
Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 20
Mormon handcart companies 18
Mormons -- Utah -- Salt Lake City -- History 17
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Provo (Utah) -- History 17
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Black Hawk War (Utah), 1865-1872 15
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Lists 5
Mormons -- Correspondence 5
Mormons -- Denmark -- History 5
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Politics, Government, and Law 5
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Notes 4
Payson (Utah) -- History 4
California National Historic Trail 3
Cedar City (Utah) -- History 3
Certificates 3
Cleveland (Utah) -- History 3
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Language
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Danish 3
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Utah Expedition (1857-1858) 27
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 25
Timpson, Laura Logie, 1886-1973 25
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 19
Jones, Edith Boley, 1892-1973 13
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Shelley, Charlotte D. 8
United States. Army. Mormon Battalion 8
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 7
James G. Willie Emigrating Company 6
Wright, June S. 6
Okey, Cynthia Adams 5
Seastrand, Myrtle R. 5
Warnick, Lurena Eldredge 5
Clayson, Ruby Thornton Brown, 1889-1976 4
Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941 4
Mott, Albert S. 4
Sager, Bertha N. 4
Beck, Alice Forbes Crosby 3
Buckwalter, Eliza W. 3
Edward Martin Emigrating Company 3
Penrod, Rose 3
Peterson, James M. (James Morten), 1850-1899 3
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 3
Wanless, Venina H. 3
Zion's Camp (Expedition) (1834) 3
Able, Mary E. S. 2
Allison, Helen Taylor 2
Alston, Louisa Grant 2
Aydelotte, Hannah 2
Bradley, George Washington, 1813-1891 2
Cannon, George Q. (George Quayle), 1827-1901 2
Curtis, Joseph, 1818-1883 2
Daughters of Utah Pioneers 2
Deakin, Maud Householder 2
Dean, Amy Dickerson 2
Duke, Jonathan Oldham, 1807-1868 2
Durrant, Ella E., 1893-1963 2
Durrant, Kezia Keys 2
Earl, Lizzie Conder 2
Evans, Laura Robinson 2
Gardner, Robert 2
Greenwood, William, 1822-1891 2
Hamblin, Jacob, 1819-1886 2
Hansen, Ann Chipman 2
Hansen, Mary Ann Chipman 2
Hansen, Zella 2
Johnson, Joel H. (Joel Hills) 2
Leany, William, 1815-1891 2
Markham, Stephen, 1800-1878 2
Meeks, Priddy, 1795-1886 2
Morley, Callie O. 2
Murdock, John, 1792-1871 2
Parker, William 2
Peck, Georgiana Morse 2
Pectol, George 2
Peterson, Sylvia Thornton 2
Priday, Zina 2
Richards, Silas, 1807-1884 2
Roberts, William Henry, 1883- 2
Robinson, Edward, 1807-1896 2
Shelley, George F., 1871-1969 2
Shelley, Sarah Ann Steele, 1863-1953 2
Smith, Ada A. D. 2
Smith, Azariah, 1826-1912 2
Smoot, Diana E., (Diana Eldredge), 1837-1914 2
Utah. Militia 2
Varney, Rose Dorton 2
Walker family 2
Webb, Mary Spratley 2
Abel, Mary E. Shelley 1
Able, Ella 1
Adams, Arza, 1804-1889 1
Adams, Caroline Hansen, 1849-1934 1
Adams, James J., 1848- 1
Adams, John O. (John Olney), 1861-1932 1
Adams, Joshua, 1833-1906 1
Adams, Kate Rowley 1
Adams, Lydia Thornton, 1830-1901 1
Adams, Marie Proctor 1
Adams, Marillah Olney, 1833-1899 1
Adams, Mary Bathgate Logan, 1844-1901 1
Adams, Mary Hoggard, 1843-1922 1
Adams, Mattie M. (Mattie Marie), 1864-1928 1
Adams, Orson B. (Orson Bennett), 1815-1901 1
Adams, William, 1822-1901 1
Allred family 1
Allred, James, 1784-1876 1
Alston, Margaret Hall Rushton 1
Ambrose, Lucy A., 1896-1986 1
Anderson, Ellen, 1805-1890 1
Anderson, Washington F., 1823-1903 1
Andreasen, Ole Christian, 1840-1904 1
Andrews, Ophelia M. 1
Andrus family 1
Angell, Truman O. (Truman Osborn), 1810-1887 1
Archer, Patience Loader Rozsa, 1827-1921 1
Armstrong, Alice Tomlison, 1857-1941 1
Armstrong, Annie Marie Jensen, 1860-1929 1
Armstrong, Catherine Cradock, 1819-1903 1
Armstrong, John, 1848-1940 1
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