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Missions and Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 1165 Collections and/or Records:

Diane Campbell collection of Weller family history materials

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239118810]
Identifier: MSS 8564
Scope and Contents

Materials consist of scanned copies on DVD of one autobiography, "With God, All Things Are Possible," by Walter H. Kindt, dated 2009, three record books, one of births, one of baptisms, and one of temple work done for ancestors, dated 1917 to 2009, and scrapbooks dated approximately 1950. Information for Dale and Mary Hair and their ancestors are included. Dated 1917 to 2009.

Dates: 1917-2013

Joseph Campbell diaries and genealogy

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230364777]
Identifier: MSS 1645
Scope and Contents

The collection contains photocopies of handwritten diaries. Campbell relates his missionary experiences in the Northern States Mission for the Mormon Church as well as his efforts in the Great Britain Mission. Also included is a Campbell genealogy.

Dates: 1891-1909

Robert Lang Campbell journal

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 496
Scope and Contents note The collection contains Campbell's original handwritten journal where he describes his missionary experiences in Scotland; emigration to Nauvoo, Illinois; experiences traveling to Utah as a Mormon pioneer; and duties as a Mormon Church leader. Dated 1843-1848. Campbell also added to the end of his journal handwritten transcriptions of his missionary certificate, his appointment to the Glasgow Conference, and a letter to the Church in Wales from Franklin D. Richards. Dated...
Dates: approximately 1843-1941; Majority of material found within 1843-1850

Cannon and Willis families papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2216
Abstract Boxes 1 and 2 being mostly manuscript material and booklets (as well as a few photographs), and boxes 3-5 being diaries and a folder of photocopies from a scrapbook and an autobiography. Most the manuscript material is typescript in form, coming from various persons. Boxes 3, 4, and the first folder of 5 contain all 33 of Lucy Grant Cannon's diaries. Some of her diaries overlap, meaning she apparently kept, sometimes, two or even three diaries at the same time. Her last six diaries, black in...
Dates: 1891-2003

Claude Q. Cannon diary and an autograph book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231188225]
Identifier: MSS 2000
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a typescript of a diary and of handwritten entries in an autograph book. The materials were created while Cannon was serving as a missionary for the Mormon Church in Samoa. Cannon writes, often in great detail, about his daily activities and his impressions.

Dates: 1903-1906

David H. Cannon autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244805]
Identifier: MSS SC 588
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography which describes emigration from England to Utah, 1842-1847, his church missions to California, England and Utah's Dixie and his experiences as an immigrant leader. Gives data on church positions, including his calling as president of the St. George, Utah Latter-day Saint Temple.

Dates: 1917

Eugene M. Cannon diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1002
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries in ink and pencil. Cannon writes about his first mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Tahiti starting in 1893 and about his activities in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also included are notes on the Tahitian language.

Dates: 1893-1940

Alma J. Christensen report book

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230328228]
Identifier: MSS SC 3290
Scope and Contents

This collection contains thirty-nine letters written to and by John M. Cannon, a Salt Lake City attorney. There are business letters and personal correspondence. The business letters deal mainly with business: mining, ranching, buying and selling of farm land, closing of bank accounts, etc. The contents of the collection span the years between 1893 and 1914 and are arranged chronologically.

Dates: 1914-1915

John Q. Cannon collection

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2348
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the 1881 diary of John Q. Cannon, including a typescript, the agenda book of John Q. Cannon (though written in by Annie Wells Cannon), a talk titled, "Spirituality in the Sunday School, and two portraits of John Q. Cannon and George Q. Cannon.

Dates: 1881

Joseph J. Cannon letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305697]
Identifier: MSS SC 821
Scope and Contents

This autographed typewritten letter was written 14 February 1935 by Joseph J. Cannon, then President of the British Mission of the Mormon Church to Francis W. Kirkham, then Secretary to Chief Justice Hughes of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington D.C. The subject of this letter is Kirkham's son, Grant, who "determined" to leave his mission four months early, and Cannon's efforts to dissuade him.

Dates: 1935 February 14