Latter Day Saint churches -- Utah -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 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
John Lyon papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1595
Abstract
Manuscripts of John Lyon and research materials assembled by his great grandson, T. Edgar Lyon, Jr., for a biography of John Lyon. The items include personal history documents (1853-1903), stories and poems (1824-1887), journals (1849-1884), photographic material (1850-1906), correspondence (1849-1878), and a scrapbook of obituaries and published articles by and about John Lyon.
Dates:
1803-1906
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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John Lyon papers