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Missions and Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 1166 Collections and/or Records:

John Charles Hall diary and autobiography

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231045896]
Identifier: MSS 1230
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of an autobiography and a diary. Hall writes about his early life and his activities as a missionary for the Mormon Church in England.

Dates: 1852-1854

Melba Stevens Hall diary

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239121616]
Identifier: MSS 9542
Scope and Contents

Diary kept by Melba Stevens Hall during her service as a missionary in the Mexican Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dated June 24, 1925 to August 11, 1927. At the time the Mexican Mission covered areas of Texas and Mexico. The diary includes a black and white family photograph.

Dates: 1925-1927

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

George Halliday papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 139
Scope and Contents Materials include a handwritten diary that was kept from 1845 to 1854, part of which was written in Pitman shorthand. The diary also includes a brief autobiographical sketch on Halliday from his birth up to 1845. Also includes a family record book for George Halliday's family, which includes a short handwritten autobiography. A volume with a typed version of the short autobiography and handwritten transcriptions of the Pitman shorthand sections of the diary are also included. Dated...
Dates: approximately 1845-1951

John R. Halliday memoirs

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230328533]
Identifier: MSS SC 2963
Scope and Contents

Includes a two-page vita, and recollections of the author's ancestors, family and youth; professional life; church activities; and hobbies. He served a Latter-day Saint mission in Germany, 1931-1933; studied music at the State Academy of Music in Berlin, Germany, 1933-1934; and worked in the Department of Music at Brigham Young University, 1936-1938 and again beginning in 1942. Material was dictated by John R. Halliday in June 1971, and later transcribed.

Dates: 1971

Lars J. Halling Jr. diaries

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349000]
Identifier: MSS 3933
Abstract

The Lars J. Halling Jr. diaries, both recorded during his missions to Scandinavia.

Dates: 1896-1908

Berry Hamblin diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2840
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries. Hamblin writes about his experiences as a missionary for the Mormon Church in Austrialia and about his return trip to the United States.

Dates: 1892-1895

Jacob Hamblin diaries and autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 770
Scope and Contents Contains a handwritten diary of Jacob Hamblin, with entries from June 21, 1868 to 1886. Entries relate farming conditions and crop yields in the Kanab Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, travels along Pariah River, and an account of a conference conducted by Brigham Young on April 2, 1870, dedicating a settlement in Kanab. A separate account titled, "Journal of the Moquis" dated September 28, 1869, to October 5, 1869, written by an individual other than Hamblin,...
Dates: 1868-1886

Jacob Hamblin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 815
Scope and Contents

The letter from Brigham Young to Jacob Hamblin in this collection was written about one month before the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place. In it, Young appoints Hamblin to be president of the Santa Clara Indian mission and tells him to keep good relations with the Indians. This collection also contains four blessings given to Jacob Hamblin.

Dates: 1857-1885

Francis Asbury Hammond papers

 Collection — Box 7: [Barcode: 31197233598173]
Identifier: MSS 18
Scope and Contents Collection contains materials related to Hammond dealing with the early settlement of San Juan County in southern Utah and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) business of the San Juan Stake which comprised a large portion of southern Utah as well as parts of Colorado and Arizona. The collection includes personal and family correspondence, ecclesiastical correspondence, and journals. Personal and family correspondence relates to pioneer life in southern Utah in...
Dates: approximately 1851-1937