Pioneers
Found in 769 Collections and/or Records:
M. S. Wood family biographies
Photocopies of microfilm copies of typewritten biographies. Most of these materials were probably composed around the year 1950. These items were "published" in 1952. M. S. Wood compiled biographies of family members. The families originated in England, were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and lived in Salt Lake City and Rockville, Utah. Wood was a compiler of family histories.
Mary Brown Firmage Woodward papers
Collection contains the research papers of Mary Brown Firmage Woodward regarding her work on her book entitled "4 Zinas: A Story of Mothers and Daughters on the Mormon Frontier," and her other personal and professional research projects.
Andrew Jackson Workman autobiography
Andrew Jackson writes about his family's conversion to Mormonism in 1839 while living in Tennessee; his settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois, 1843; the exodus west; serving in the Mormon Battalion, and march to California; his work in the gold mines; his arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, 1855; the return trip to California; settling in Kane County, Utah; the death of his wife, Rebecca Deck; his remarriage to Sariah A. Eager, 1866 and the organization of the United Order, 1874.
Sketch of the life of Margaret Thornton Wright
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography by an unknown author. Margaret Thornton Wright was born on 4 January 1844 in Scotland. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850, migrated to Utah in 1853, and later came to American Fork. She married Frekrick Wright and had 13 children. Margaret died in 1908.
Writings and history of Jonathan Ellis Layne
Typescript (carbon copy) of an autobiographical sketch written by Layne in 1898 which gives details of his early life in Nauvoo, Illinois; his trek across the Plains to Utah; his settlement in Davis, Weber and Cache Counties, Utah; his experiences with the Mormon soldiers sent to oppose Johnston's army; and his eventual move to Alberta, Canada to escape arrest as a polygamist. Also includes extracts from his journal, 1887-1891.
Mary Ann Hoopes Yearsley papers
Materials include papers related primarily to Yearsley. Includes a holograph journal of a visit to her home state of Pennsylvania in 1872 and a printed life sketch compiled by James D. Cummings, a grandson, in 1914. Also includes her husband, David Dutton Yearsley's, missionary recommend signed by John D. Lee and Joseph Young, Nauvoo, Illinois, 1844. Dated 1844-1914.
Archibald Miller Young autobiography
Handwritten account of Young's trip from Scotland to Utah. Young recounts the trip which was conducted largely by boat and by train.
Brigham Young letter to George Q. Cannon
Brigham Young letter to Harriet Elizabeth Cook Campbell Young
Handwritten and signed letter dated March 25, 1846 and addressed to Harriet Cook Young, one of Brigham Young's wives. Brigham Young writes about the prospects of the Mormons migrating to the West.
Brigham Young letter to Oscar B. Young
Photographs of a handwritten and signed letter which was composed in Provo, Utah, dated February 27, 1868, and addressed to Oscar B. Young. Brigham gives his impressions of Provo, advises Oscar on Indian problems the Mormon settlers had along the "Muddy River," and comments on politics.