Pioneers
Found in 771 Collections and/or Records:
Historical sketch of James Hendricks and Drusilla Dorris Hendricks
Typewritten copy of an autobiography. Drusilla married James Hendricks (1808-1870) in 1827. They joined the Mormon Church in 1835 and lived with the Mormons in Clay County, Missouri and Nauvoo, Illinois. They migrated to Utah in 1847 where they lived in Salt Lake City, Springville, and Richmond.
Emma McDowell Jacobsen histories
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.
History filed no. 2 of Adams Camp, Utah County company Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typewritten lists. The collection includes a list of the "officers" of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers in American Fork, Utah, and "Minutes of Meeting Held July 19, 1933."
History of Bradford White Elliott
Typescript of information concerning Elliott's family, his call to be a Latter-day Saint Church apostle and his death.
History of Edmund Buckley
Typescript. The collection includes a biographical sketch of Edmund Buckley, an early Mormon convert and Utah pioneer.
History of Hans Christian Hansen
Photocopy of a typewritten biography. Hans Christian Hansen was born in Denmark in 1848. He later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah. He settled in the Pine Canyon farming area near Tooele, Utah, and died in 1924.
History of Henry Bawden
Typewritten biographical sketch of Bawden, a Latter-day Saint Church missionary, pioneer and early Utah blacksmith.
History of Jonathan Steggell
History of Joseph Curtis, son of Nahum and Millicent Curtis
Typescript of a personal history which gives data of the Curtis family in Michigan and their exodus to the West. Dated journal entries, 1831-1881, detail Curtis' Illinois and Utah missions, including minutes of organization of a Latter-day Saint Church branch in Poteetneet (Payson), Utah and area pioneer life.
History of Mary Adeline Ensign Roberts
Typewritten life sketch of Roberts which describes homesteading in Idaho and Canada and family incidents.