BYU Library - Special Collections

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Handwritten diaries, newspaper clippings, genealogies, correspondence, and patriarchal blessings. The John Crook papers relates Crook's conversion, emigration to Utah, and major events related to his Church activities and work as a farmer and president of a coal company.

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Newspaper clipping of pioneer monuments, scrapbooks, biographies, histories of various industries, lists of officers and members, and meeting programs. The materials relate to the operation of the organization primarily in Provo, Utah.

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Scapbooks. The materials are newspaper clippings glued into blank pages of a book entitled: "Day by day with the Utah pioneers 1847." The items were originally published in the newspapers the "Salt Lake Tribune" and the "Deseret News." The clippings refer to the migration of 1847 to Utah and the early settling of that state by Mormon pioneers.

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Photocopies of newspaper clippings. Dan Croft inteviewed the mayor of Orem, Utah, B. M. Jolley, about the history of Orem. Jolley gave Croft information on the early days of the community.

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Photocopies of a handwritten diary and several newspaper obituaries of members of Peterson's family. The events in Peterson's life are recounted from 1850 to 1866, after which a daily record was kept until 1899. Included are incidents from Sevier County history including politics, the Black Hawk War, census records for 1895, and personal business dealings. Peterson also writes about his family, national events, and local weather and temperatures.

Scope and Contents Materials include one volume of a handwritten diary and several newspaper clippings of obituaries of members of Peterson's family. The events in Peterson's life are recounted from 1850 to 1866, after which a daily record was kept until 1899. Included are incidents from Sevier County history, including politics, the Black Hawk War, census records for 1895, and personal business dealings. Peterson also writes about his family, national events, and local weather and temperatures. Dated...

Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a newspaper article called "Life Sketch of T. A. Waddoups." The item was created at an unknown time. Waddoups was the president of the Hawaiian Colony and manager of the Isepa Agricultural and Stocky Company from 1901 to 1917. In 1868 Hawaiian converts began coming to Utah to perform their Mormon temple ordinances. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints purchased the Quiney ranch in Skull Valley, Utah, In Tooele County. Also included is a...

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Photocopies of handwritten diaries, newspaper clippings, and a biography. Some of the diaries were kept in the pitman form of shorthand. Whittaker made two journeys from England to the United States, once in 1842 and again in 1851. He kept diaries of these trips and of crossing the continent to Utah in 1851. Also included is a biography of Whittaker by Charlotte Chatterly Perkins Jones.

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Photocopies of newspaper clippings and miscellaneous documents relating to the lives of Charles W. Wilcken and his son David. The clippings largely tell of the life of Charles while many of the miscellaneous items relate to the marriage, Church activities, and employment of David.