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Testimonies

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Solemn declarations, written or verbal; usually made orally by a witness under oath in response to interrogation by a lawyer or authorized public official, then reduced to writing for the record.

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Johnson, Peter E., 1920 August

 Item — Box 8: Series 9; Series 10 [Barcode: 31197230220631], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 823 Series 9
Dates: 1920 August
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 823, M. Wilford Poulson papers / Mormon Americana Acquisitions (not original manuscripts), A-M

Judge William A. Carter deposition, 1860 May 31

 Item — Folder 5: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230241835], item: 2
Identifier: MSS SC 490 Series 2
Scope and Contents note

This document contains a deposition testimony of Patrick J. Higgins given before Judge Carter in the case of the People of Utah vs. Jos. Pendergrass, McIntosh, Harvey Riley, and Thomas Maloney regarding the killing of one Samuel Bennett in Echo Canyon while enroute from Camp Floyd. No date was given for the crime.

Dates: Other: 1860 May 31
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS SC 490, William A. Carter papers / Collection of William A. Carter materials

Leany family history as written from memory by William Leany

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230323310]
Identifier: MSS SC 2411
Scope and Contents

Handwritten autobiography, will, and testimony to the veracity of the Mormon Church. Also included are photocopies and typescripts of these items. Leany was a convert to the Mormon Church who moved to Missouri in 1836. He was present at the Haun's Mill Massacre. He moved to Nauvoo, Illinois and later migrated to Utah living in Parowan and Harrisburg.

Dates: 1888-1891
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Leany family history as written from memory by William Leany

Margaret Cooper West testimony of conversion to principles of polygamy, date of production unidentified

 Item — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230232339], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 503 Series 1 Item 21
Dates: date of production unidentified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 503, Jesse Nathaniel Smith papers / Jesse Nathaniel Smith collection / Jesse Nathaniel Smith certificates, mementos and miscellany

Mormon War papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS FM 7
Scope and Contents

Microfilmed copies of original joint legislative committee journals (1838-1839), legislative proceedings (1838-1841), correspondence and orders (1838-1839), evidence given at the court of inquiry held in November 1838 to investigate Joseph Smith (1805-1844) and others for high treason, and certificates dealing with indictments against Mormons (1841) pertaining to the Mormon disturbances in Missouri (1838-1841). The film is 16 mm. and 35 mm. and is photonegative.

Dates: 1838-1841
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Mormon War papers

Paul D. Christensen testimony for Arizona vs. California

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS146_S5_SS3_SSS10_SSSS3_B32_F8
Dates: 1954-1956
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Paul D. Christensen testimony for Arizona vs. California, 1954-1956

 File — Box 32: Series 5 [Barcode: 31197233278263], Folder: 8
Identifier: MSS 146 Series 5 Sub-Series 3 Sub-Series 10 Sub-Series 3
Dates: Other: 1954-1956
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 146, Arthur V. Watkins papers / Arthur V. Watkins reclamation papers / Arthur V. Watkins papers on Colorado River Storage Project / Arthur V. Watkins papers on the Lower Basin / Arthur V. Watkins papers on Arizona vs. California

Robert Bourne copy of chancery suit record, 1790 March 22

 Item — Oversize 31: Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8; Series 9; Series 10; Series 11 [Barcode: 31197232565751], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1779 Series 9 Item 3
Dates: 1790 March 22
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1779, Collection of land indentures / Land indentures

Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Air Corps Medical Corps, 1943-2003

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 6 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

Subseries contains materials from two women who served in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. Zelta Walker's file contains her history, letters, and photographs, and Rayola Andersen's file contains the transcript of an interview. The materials detail these women's experiences as U.S. Army Air Corps nurses during World War II. Dated 1943-2003.

Dates: 1943-2003
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II / Saints at War Project records for the United States Medical Corps

Saints at War Project records for the United States Medical Corps, 1941-2004

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 6
Scope and Contents Subseries contains memoirs, interviews, articles, correspondence such as letters and emails, photographs, accounts, newspapers, military records, pamphlets, clippings, books, diary excerpts, and histories from Latter-Day Saint veterans, mainly female nurses, who served during World War II. While most of the female veterans served in either the Navy Medical Corps, Army Medical Corps, or Army Air Corps, some also served in the Cadet Nurse Corps, and one served in the Red Cross. One of the men...
Dates: 1941-2004
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2350, Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II

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