Latter Day Saint pioneers
Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:
Lars Peter Oveson autobiography
Photocopy of a typewritten biography of Lars Peter Oveson, who lived a rural, pioneer life with his family in central Utah.
Horace B. Owens papers
Typescripts and newspaper clippings (photocopies). The collection includes two biographical sketches of a Mormon pioneer, stonecutter and guardsman and a biographical sketch of his mother, Abigail B. Owens. Also includes a letter from the donor.
Papers of Whitney family children, 1957, 1843-1900
Contains the papers from seven of Whitney's children, including correspondence, legal records, and personal papers dating from between 1843 and 1900. Materials document a range of family and personal activity, such as missionary service, colonization efforts, and business activities.
Life of John Parker
Photocopy of a typewritten biography of John Parker (1812-1886). Parker was a convert to the Mormon Church and a pioneer to Utah who settled in Washington County and Bountiful, Utah.
Payne family biographies
Photocopies of typewritten biographies including life histories of Edard Payne, his wife, Emma Powell Payne, and their children. The biographies tell about the Paynes' conversion to Mormonism in England, their migration to Utah in 1864, and their lives first in Heber City and later in Glenwood, Utah.
Jean Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce diary
Photocopies of a typescript of a diary. Pearce migrated to Utah in 1851. She went by way of New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Louis, Missouri. She gives details on the trek to Utah. She lived in Ogden, Utah. There is a gap in the diary from 1852 to 1868. Pearce moved to California in 1869.
Biographies of Richard Phillips and wife, Margaret Luker
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten dual biography. Richard Phillips was born in New Jersey, married Margaret Luker, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The couple came to Utah in 1861, settled in American Fork, and were the parents of 12 children.
Pioneer Margaretta Lemon King : came to Utah in 1847
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Margaretta Lemon King was born in Indiana in 1839. Her family soon joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they migrated to Utah in 1847. She married Robert Edison King at age 16 in 1855, and they moved to American Fork, Utah, in 1856. Margaretta had 10 children and died in 1922.
Preliminary draft of the Sept. 24, 1845 broadside on the Mormons leaving Nauvoo
Photocopy of a handwritten manuscript addressed to a Qunicy citizens' committee and written by a council of the Mormon Church at the home of John Taylor. The writers asked that there be a cessation of hostile acts against the Mormons, including the burning of their homes, and expressed the intent of the majority of them to leave the area in the spring of 1846.
Biography of James Whitmore Preston
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Preston was born in 1822 in Massachusetts, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and married Emeline Houston in 1851 in Nauvoo, Illinois. He migrated to Utah in 1851 and settled in American Fork. He took a second wife, Katherine Nash, and died in 1898.