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Salt Lake City (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Young seventies' license

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230317221]
Identifier: MSS SC 1900
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of a Seventies' License. This license gave John V. Smith the authority to preach and to officiate in ordinances of the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1859

Mahonri M. Young papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 4
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, sketchbooks, research files, autobiographical files, scrapbooks, and news clippings. Also includes diaries, address and memorandum books, and financial records. Most letters were exchanged with family members and close friends. Primary correspondents included his son, Mahonri Sharp Young; his first wife, Cecilia Sharp Young; and Mary Lightfoot Tarleton, whom he met in Paris after Cecilia died in 1917. Research files include extensive information on other artists.

Dates: 1870-1957

Margaret Pierce Whitesides Young autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306430]
Identifier: MSS SC 882
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript. Originally written to be read at a 1903 meeting of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Mrs. Young describes her life in Nauvoo and her early years in Salt Lake City, Utah. She also comments on life as a polygamous wife of Brigham Young.

Dates: 1903