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Latter Day Saint handcart companies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Alice Dandy Ollerton biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315118]
Identifier: MSS SC 1710
Scope and Contents

Typescript of the biography of Alice Dandy Ollerton, English convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Describes the handcart trek across the plains which took the lives of Ollerton's husband, daughter, and herself.

Dates: approximately 1980

George Q. Cannon promissory note

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233292033]
Identifier: Vault MSS 542
Scope and Contents

Handwritten note promising to pay on demand $103.66 to George P. Cannon for "hand cart shares" and provisions. The item was signed by William Horn. The note was written in Florence, Nebraska on July 6, 1860. Apparently, the note was written by Cannon, including his own name, and endorsed by Horn.

Dates: 1860 July 6

Biographical sketch of William Walker Robinson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339225]
Identifier: MSS SC 3330
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. William Walker Robinson was born in 1833 in Manchester, England, and later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He migrated to Utah in 1852 and settled in American Fork. He was involved in the rescue attempts of the Willie and Martin handcart companies, became the father of 16 children, and died at the age of 90.

Dates: 1930

Ship passenger lists

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489572]
Identifier: MSS 568
Scope and Contents Photocopy of handwritten lists. One item is dated 30 June and presents the names of the passengers of the 'Horizon' that left from Liverpool, England, in 1856. The 856 entries include the names, occupations, and ages of the passangers and where they were born. Many of the passangers on the 'Horizon' were Mormon immigrants who migrated to Utah in the ill-fated Martin handcart company later that year. Also included are partial lists of passengers on the ships the 'James Wesmoth' and the...
Dates: 1856

Short history of Mary Bathgate Logan Adams : hand cart pioneer to Utah 1856, pioneer of American Fork 1856

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339027]
Identifier: MSS 2403
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Bathgate Logan Adams was born 22 March 1844 in England. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the handcart companies. She later settled in American Fork, had a large family, and died in 1901.

Dates: 1934

Sketch of the life of Thomas Durham

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329960]
Identifier: MSS SC 3077
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm reproduction of a typed manuscript. The item is a biography of Thomas Durham. He lived in England, joined the Mormon Church in 1850, married Mary Morton in 1852, and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Martin handcart company. He soon went to Parowan, Utah, where he led the local choir for 62 years. He married a second wife, Mary Mitchell, in 1860 and took a third wife, Carole Mortensen, in 1867. Durham made a living as a furniture maker. Alfred M. Durham...
Dates: 1936

William Walsh promissory note

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236645]
Identifier: MSS SC 287
Scope and Contents

Holograph note signed in which Walsh promises to pay Daniel Spencer $1.40 for excess of luggage.

Dates: 1856

Wright family letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231063246]
Identifier: MSS 1450
Scope and Contents

Collection includes correspondence between George Wright and his family during his immigration to Utah detailing his handcart journey, 1860-1861, and correspondence of other Wright family members between England and Utah, 1869-1884.

Dates: 1860-1884

Brigham Young speech

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489630]
Identifier: MSS 573
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten copy of a speech given on 22 April 1856 in Emigration Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah. The speech was recorded by J. N. Long. Young urges immigrants to walk to Utah as much as possible because that mode of transportation was faster than by wagon. This was probably an attempt to get support for handcart immigration. He also talks about taking precautions to protect the pioneers against Indians.

Dates: 1856 April 22