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Polygamy -- Utah

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

The "Americanization" of Utah for statehood / Gustive O. Larson

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1300
Scope and Contents

Manuscript of book prior to publication. Presents the struggle of Utah for statehood, including all aspects and conditions relative to the practice of plural marriage and the issue of the "Woodruff Manifesto".

Dates: 1971
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / The "Americanization" of Utah for statehood / Gustive O. Larson

Anti-Mormon lecture notes

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233605986]
Identifier: MSS 7918
Scope and Contents

Contains two notebooks of notes given at Anti-Mormon lectures likely given in Lancaster, Ohio in 1918. Speakers included Arthur C. Latimer and a Mrs. Williams. The notes document public addresses by disaffected Mormons about polygamy, temple rites, and other aspects of Mormon life.

Dates: approximately 1918
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Anti-Mormon lecture notes

Benjamin F. Johnson family correspondence and ephemera

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9512
Scope and Contents Letters of the Benjamin F. Johnson family spanning 1864 to 1915. Letters were often written from Latter-day Saint communities within Utah and Arizona, particularly Richfield, Utah, and Mesa, Arizona, and usually to or from women. Includes a small number of ephemeral items such as receipts, a small decorative card with a poem, a small broadside with a song for the Babbitt family reunion in 1909, and a handwritten poem. All items were found in a leather wallet owned by Benjamin F. Johnson,...
Dates: 1864-1915
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Benjamin F. Johnson family correspondence and ephemera

Carroll family histories

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1569
Abstract

Carroll family histories is a collection of various narratives describing numerous generations of the Carroll family. Included within the collection are photocopies of letters and photographs. The collection dates from 1872-1976.

Dates: approximately 1977
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Carroll family histories

Christian P. Christiansen autograph book

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232523511]
Identifier: MSS 5966
Abstract

54 photocopied leaves of an autograph book belonging to Christian P. Christiansen.

Dates: 1887
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Christian P. Christiansen autograph book

Benjamin Harrison pardon of John Ammon Powell

 Item — Oversize-folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239244863]
Identifier: MSS 9129
Scope and Contents

Contains a handwritten pardon in the hand of James Gillespie Blaine, United States Secretary of State, signed by President Benjamin Harrison in Washington D.C., pardoning John Ammon Powell of Price, Utah of his sentence of adultery related to polygamy from one year to six months. Dated 1891 March 18.

Dates: 1891 March 18
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Benjamin Harrison pardon of John Ammon Powell

History of Robert Gardner, Jr. / written by himself at St. George, Utah

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305424]
Identifier: MSS SC 793
Scope and Contents Photocopy of typescript. Detailed account of frontier life in Canada; his family's conversion to Mormonism in the early 1840s; a trip to Nauvoo, Illinois, in June 1845; the trip across the plains to Utah in 1847; and life in pioneer Utah.Also includes account of the author's mission to Canada (1857-1858) and his subsequent recall because of the Utah War, along with his family's move to settle St. George, Utah. Ends with text of Gardner's patriarchal blessing, genealogical...
Dates: 1884
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / History of Robert Gardner, Jr. / written by himself at St. George, Utah

Johnson family journals and correspondence

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197225535167]
Identifier: MSS 3095
Abstract

Contains letters to James Francis Johnson from his father, Benjamin Franklin Johnson, and the journals of Benjamin Franklin Johnson. The collection has some legal documents pertaining to the death of James Francis Johnson.

Dates: 1885-1914
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Johnson family journals and correspondence

Truman Leonard journals

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 4067
Abstract

Six journals, a scrapbook and back up copies on floppy discs of the journals of Truman Leonard, 1853-1895.

Dates: 1853-1895
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Truman Leonard journals

Oath for a Woman in Territory of Utah form

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227625529]
Identifier: MSS 3997
Scope and Contents

Printed form, Form of Oath for a Woman in Territory of Utah, for swearing she was not a bigamist or involved in any polygamous relationship. Form blank, printed for 188-.

Dates: approximately 1880
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Oath for a Woman in Territory of Utah form

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