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Missions and Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 1166 Collections and/or Records:

A sketch of the life and labors of William John Griffiths

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341551]
Identifier: MSS 745
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript. Griffiths was born and raised in Logan, Utah. He later moved to Trenton, Utah. He was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a missionary to England for that faith.

Dates: 1920

John Henry Smeath mission journals

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197227635445]
Identifier: MSS 3917
Scope and Contents

The John Henry Smeath mission journals, 1923-1990. Includes: John Henry Smeath journals, 1923-1925 and Maude Frances Smeath Weight personal history, 1990. John Henry Smeath served in the British Isles Mission from 1923-1925, and the collection includes both his original journals and a bound typescript. The personal history of Maude Weight, John Henry's sister, is also included.

Dates: 1923-1990

Albert Ricks Smith diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2097
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and bound journals. The items cover the time when Smith served as a Mormon missionary in Tennessee and Georgia. Smith tells about his work as a missionary in entries that are often lengthy and detailed.

Dates: 1887-1889

Albert T. Smith diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1398
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diary and missionary appointment books from Smith's mission to Birmingham, England. Also includes positive and negative microfilm copies. Dated 1910-1912.

Dates: 1910-1912

Alice C. Smith interview

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2999
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an interview conducted by Harvard Heath on 25 October 1985. Also included are the audiocassettes from which the interview was transcribed. Smith talks about her work with the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-days Saints and her experiences as wife of a mission president in Austria.

Dates: 1985

Asael Jenkins Smith missionary journal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233604732]
Identifier: MSS 5986
Scope and Contents

Contains one mission journal by Smith. The journal has approximately 102 pages and documents Asael's mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Netherlands. The journal contains statistics documenting his missionary work, entries, photographs of various mission companions and Dutch members of Church, ephemera, and some correspondence.

Dates: 1923-1927

Asahel Henry Smith letters and photographs

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7530
Scope and Contents

Contains letters, photographs, commentary, a timeline, and other related materials regarding the life of Asahel Henry Smith. These cover the time he spent serving in the military during the Second World War, his time as an Mormon missionary to the Eastern United States, as well as other contextual information. The commentary was done by Henry's brother, Marion, and gives a bit of background information and some of the memories that Marion had of Henry.

Dates: 1941-1948

Charles Smith papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 554
Scope and Contents Holographs with partial typescripts (photocopies) and typescript (photocopy). The journal tells of his life in England, Nauvoo, Illinois and Washington County, Utah, missions to England and Europe, and his life in the United Order as a polygamist. The journal 1860-1862 is written completely in Pitman shorthand. Record book includes family names and Latter-day Saint Church temple ordinances completed. Also included are an autobiographical sketch, an obituary, a memorium written by a...
Dates: 1840-1905

David W. Smith and Charles Richard Shumway Letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230240258]
Identifier: MSS SC 394
Scope and Contents

ALS's written between Charles R. Shumway and David W. Smith, descendants of Asahel Smith, Sr., the grandfather of Joseph Smith, Jr., which relates to Smith family history. Also contains a letter from Shumway to The Ensign concerning David W. Smith and J. Winter Smith and a copy of an Ensign article about the Smiths.

Dates: 1975

Hyrum Smith papers

 Collection — Oversize 4: [Barcode: 31197233641825]
Identifier: Vault MSS 774
Scope and Contents

Collection includes diaries, letters, property records, bibles and family records related to Hyrum Smith. Includes diaries of missions taken by Hyrum, the 1834 Hyrum Smith family bible, with family record dating up to 1872, and material used by the School of the Prophets in Kirtland, Ohio. Dated 1831-1872.

Dates: 1831-1872