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Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 203 Collections and/or Records:

William Leany autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 482
Scope and Contents

Contains a handwritten autobiography of William Leany. Includes a description of Leany's life and experiences as an early Mormon pioneer in Nauvoo, Illinois, his journey to Utah, and settling in southern Utah. Dated January 1888.

Dates: 1888 January

Legal documents of the Icarian Community, Hancock County, Ill.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 358
Scope and Contents

Documents relating to law suits involving Etienne Cabet and the Icarian Community located in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Dates: 1849-1859

G. C. Beamon letter to M. Badger and C. Hall

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230241421]
Identifier: MSS SC 459
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a letter from Beamon to Methodist Church leaders in New York, appealing for aid and giving a description of Nauvoo during the exodus of the Mormons.

Dates: 1846

List of names of police in Nauvoo

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233286969]
Identifier: Vault MSS 151
Scope and Contents

Handwritten list of 37 names of men who served as police officers in Nauvoo, Illinois in July of 1844.

Dates: 1844

Stephen Longstrath letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305036]
Identifier: MSS SC 755
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten letters. One of the letters is addressed to "Sarah" and two of the items are addressed to Willard Richards, an apostle in the Mormon Church. Longstrath writes about family matters, his work, and the condition of the Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Dates: 1846

Wilson Lund family history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330638]
Identifier: MSS SC 3125

Albert R. Lyman histories

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1371
Scope and Contents

Typewritten family histories. Lyman writes about the Edward Patridge and Lucretia Hancock Robinson families. These families were early converts to the Mormon Church. They suffered persecutions, lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, came to Utah, and settled in Fillmore, Utah.

Dates: 1952

Wandle Mace autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 786
Scope and Contents Contains the handwritten autobiography of Wandle Mace. Account includes information about Mace's youth in New York City; joining the Mormon Church in the 1830s; moving to Illinois; helping build the Nauvoo Temple; service in the Nauvoo Legion; and, fighting in the Battle of Nauvoo in 1846. Also includes accounts of living in Iowa for over a decade prior to making their way west to Utah; traveling to Utah in a wagon train in 1859; moving to Southern Utah and settling in Kanab; and all major...
Dates: 1890

Eliza Clayton Margetts reminiscence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230334028]
Identifier: MSS 1105
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten reminiscence. Margetts writes about her life in Carthage and Nauvoo, Illinois. She describes the events surrounding the murder of the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith. She also mentions events in Nauvoo, Illinois, when the Mormons were ejected from that town. She also witnessed the "miracle of the quales." The date of the composition of the item is uncertain.

Dates: 1870

William Martin papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336031]
Identifier: MSS 1049
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten and printed notes and certificates. The notes relate to the significant dates in Martin's life, and the certificates state that Martin is a member of the Mormon Church in good standing. One was signed by the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith (1805-1844).

Dates: 1844