Latter Day Saints -- Colonization -- Mexico -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Lake family biographies
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305135]
Identifier: MSS SC 768
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of typescript. Contains biographies of James Lake (1788-1874); Philomelia Smith Lake (1794-1873); James Lake, Sr. (1760- ); and George Lake (1838-1898) written by some of their grandchildren. Also includes autobiography of George Lake (1838-1898).
Discusses the family's genealogy; their conversion to the Mormon Church in 1832; their migration with the Mormons to Ohio, Illinois, and Utah; illnesses and deaths in the family; life on the Utah frontier; George's mission in Great...
Dates:
1760-1898
Nelle Spilsbury Hatch research papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1139
Scope and Contents
Research notes, book drafts, articles, diary excerpts, letters, and biographies. The materials relate to the Mormon exploration, colonization, and missionary work in Mexico, primarily in the Colonia Juarez area. The materials were used as resources for Hatch's book, "Colonia Juarz."
Dates:
1954
Erastus Fairbanks Snow correspondence and an autobiography
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 51
Scope and Contents
Handwritten correspondnece with photocopies and an autbiography. The materials include correspondence between Snow and his family, 1847-1887, a report on the possibilities of Mormons settling in the Gila River Valley of Arizona and in Mexico, and an autobiography dictated to Snow's son, Franklin Snow. In the autobiography Erastus Snow tells about his work in the settling of St. George, Utah.
Dates:
1847-1887