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Latter Day Saint handcart companies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Green promissory note

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309731]
Identifier: MSS SC 1144
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed financial note dated June 6, 1860. Green promises to pay George Q. Cannon $76.80 for "4 hand cart shares" and $58.41 for provisions after he arrives in Salt Lake City.

Dates: 1860 June 6
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Thomas Green promissory note

Thomas Hall diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2860
Scope and Contents

Account of his mission to Canada for the Mormon Church. Describes traveling east from Salt Lake City by handcart in the spring of 1857, and his missionary labors in Ontario, particularly in the vicinity of London.

Dates: 1857-1858
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Thomas Hall diary

The handcart companies of 1856 and Arza Erastus Hinkley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315589]
Identifier: MSS SC 1770
Scope and Contents

Softbound typescript of an account of the rescue of the Martin Handcart Company, taken from journals and oral family histories.

Dates: 1980
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / The handcart companies of 1856 and Arza Erastus Hinkley

Biography of Inger Mortensen Hansen

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338169]
Identifier: MSS 2802
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Inger Mortensen Hansen was born in Denmark in 1826. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1861. He came by handcart to Utah and went to Genoa where he lived in a dugout on the side of a hill. He later settled in American Fork, Utah.

Dates: 1958
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biography of Inger Mortensen Hansen

Life history of Martin Hansen

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230333038]
Identifier: MSS SC 3307
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobiography. Hansen migrated to Utah in 1857 by handcart. He also wrote about the problems of hunger and finding food from 1857 to 1859 when he was in Utah. He settled in American Fork, Utah.

Dates: 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Life history of Martin Hansen

George Housley account

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312917]
Identifier: MSS SC 1537
Scope and Contents

Handwritten account of George Housley's experiences with the Martin handcart company. Housley tells of hunger, death due to exposure and starvation, rationing of food, and relief sent to them from Salt Lake City to enable them to continue on with their journey.

Dates: 1856
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / George Housley account

Ipson family papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244094]
Identifier: MSS SC 627
Scope and Contents Typewritten biographical sketches compiled by various family members detailing the lives of Mormon pioneers Neils P. and Georgina M. Ipson, including data on their emigration from Denmark to Salt Lake City, Utah, his other marriages, Mormon settlement at and exodus from St. Thomas, Nevada, life at Panguitch, Utah, genealogical data and a handwritten divorce claim-release by Georgina M. Ipson. Also includes a typewritten tribute to their son Jennings B. Ipson and a statement by Leonard R....
Dates: 1885-1981
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Ipson family papers

Emma James Johnson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230327741]
Identifier: MSS 323
Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography with a typescript of the item. The history includes comments by John's daughter, Laletas Dixon. As a young woman Emma James migrated to Utah with the ill-fated Willie Handcart company. Emma describes how the decision was made to travel to Utah late in the season and gives many details on the nature of the journey and the tragedy which followed. She tells about the starvation, cold, hardships faced by her family, and the death of her father, William James...
Dates: 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Emma James Johnson autobiography

Biography of John Joseph Johnson

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338052]
Identifier: MSS 2803
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. John Joseph Johnson was born in Denmark in 1809. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah by handcart. He later settled in American Fork, Utah. Timpson also writes about members of Johnson's family whom she can remember.

Dates: 1949
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biography of John Joseph Johnson

Biography of Metta Johnson

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338045]
Identifier: MSS 2804
Scope and Contents

Photocopied from a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Metta Johnson was born in Denmark in 1806 and married Joseph Johnson. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah by handcart. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1896.

Dates: 1958
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biography of Metta Johnson

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