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Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

John L. Smith personal and family papers, 1792-1950

 Series — Box 5: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232563210], Folder: 1-3
Identifier: MSS 680 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains priesthood blessing transcripts, legal documents, articles, letters, and other Smith family papers, dated 1792 to 1950.

Dates: 1792-1950

John L. Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 680
Scope and Contents Contains seven journals of John Lyman Smith, and other autobiographical manuscripts, as wells as a bound typescript volume of an autobiography/journal. The journals include accounts of persecutions in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, pioneering in Utah, Lyman's two missions to Europe, and his service as president of the Swiss-Italian and the Swiss-Italian-German missions. There is also a contemporary account of the cricket-and-seagull episode in Salt Lake in 1848, Lyman's service as a member of...
Dates: 1792-1950; Majority of material found within 1846-1900

Brigham Young property deeds

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227613798]
Identifier: MSS SC 1320
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and printed deeds of personal property including such items as land, stock, clothing, and utensils. These items were deeded to Brigham Young (1801-1877), as trustee in trust for the Mormon Church. One of the items is signed by George Albert Smith, a counselor to Brigham Young.

Dates: 1855-1857