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Missions and Missionaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 1167 Collections and/or Records:

Henry Charles Eddington diaries

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341973]
Identifier: MSS 784
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary Eddington kept while serving on a mission to the Southern States from 1886 to 1887 and to England in 1888. Eddington was transferred to England because of hostile feelings against Mormon missionaries in the Southern States.

Dates: 1886-1888

Henry Charles Eddington diaries

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231045904]
Identifier: MSS 1231
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary from 1886 to 1888 when Eddington was serving as a missionary for the Mormon Church in the Southern States of the United States and in England. He was transferred from the Southern States to England because of hostile activities against the Mormon missionaries. Also included is a typescript of a diary kept by Eddington from September to December in 1879. He writes about the weather while passing through various communities in Utah.

Dates: 1879-1888

Clyde C. Edmonds papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1426
Abstract

Includes Latter-day Saint Church mission journal, personal and other correspondence, notes, speeches and publications concerning the poultry industry and the Latter-day Saint Church Welfare Program.

Dates: 1911-1956

Eldridge family biographies and genealogies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306562]
Identifier: MSS SC 889
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photoduplications of typewritten copies of the documents. Included are Eldredge family genealogies and biographies of four family members. The most prominent of these individuals was Horace S. Eldredge (1816-1888). Horace was a businessman, Utah legislator, one of the first Seven Presidents of the Seventies of the Mormon Church (1854-1888), and president of the European Mission for the same church (1870-1871).

Dates: 1950-1962

Edmund Lovell Ellsworth papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232593233]
Identifier: MSS 8686
Scope and Contents

Contains a flash drive with a digital copy of Ellsworth's journal giving an account of his service in England, a journal kept while in prison in Yuma, Arizona, for polygamy, and a brief autobiography. Also includes a digital copy of a short journal and life sketches recorded by Ellsworth's wife, Mary Ann Jones; various manuscripts, photographs and family portraits; a family bible; and Ellsworth Family Organization information. Materials date from 1856 to 1925.

Dates: 1856-1925

James Clarence Ellsworth mission diary

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197227633861]
Identifier: MSS 2288
Scope and Contents

James C. Ellsworth mission diary, 1908-1910 includes a photocopy and typescript of James C. Ellsworth's Australian mission diary.

Dates: 1908-1910

Santry Elmer papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9214
Scope and Contents Collection includes mission journals and other personal ephemera belonging to Santry Elmer; missionary teaching material; historical reports related to the fall of South Vietnam to northern Communism; and related Church and governmental publications. Subjects of materials relate to Elmer's experience serving as a missionary in Vietnam until missionaries were evacuated in April 1975, their subsequent waiting in Hong Kong, and being reassigned to serve in Vietnamese refugee camps in...
Dates: approximately 1955-1980; Majority of material found within 1974-1976

David Horton Elton journals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2050
Abstract

The papers of David Horton Elton contain David Horton Elton’s LDS Church mission diaries, 1898 – 1900, and one additional diary, 1905.

Dates: 1898-1905

Robert M. Elvin letter to S. S. Alley

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197235231849]
Identifier: MSS 8599
Content Description

Letter dated 1882 asking for information about Mormon missionaries.

Dates: 1884 September 24

William Young Empey diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345628]
Identifier: MSS 962
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary kept from 1852 to 1854 when Empey was serving in England as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He describes his voyages from Utah to England as well as the return. He also writes about the nature of missionary work, and the problems he faced in England. Empey signed his name "William Y. Empey" on the cover of the diary.

Dates: 1852-1854