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Utah -- History -- 19th century

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Maureen Ursenbach Beecher personal project files, 1970-1995

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 3
Scope and Contents Contains various personal projects of Beecher, including those she headed or collaborated on. Materials include manuscript drafts, research files, and related correspondence. Projects include papers for various seminars and associations, Church News vignettes, a history text chaper, talks to honors students at BYU and other students, and projects to be published. Materials cover topics including the Relief Society, Canadians in Utah, diaries and autobiographies of Mormon women, Utah in the...
Dates: 1970-1995
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1979, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher project files on Eliza R. Snow, 1975-1994

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 3 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains Beecher's personal project files on Eliza R. Snow, including her poetry and songs, her Nauvoo Journal and other diaries, photographs and maps from Nauvoo and Utah, an ancestral file, an index to Snow's writings, the administrative history of the Relief Society, and other research materials on Snow. Includes many of Beecher's publications on Snow, most notaby "The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow," "Eliza Remembers," "Inadvertent Disclosure: Autobiography in the Poetry of Eliza...
Dates: 1975-1994
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1979, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher personal project files

McNeill family certificates, 1859-1892

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 6047 Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents note

Contains certificates with the McNeill family.

Dates: 1859-1892
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 6047, John McNeill papers / John McNeill family papers

John McNeill papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6047
Abstract

Include two series: 1. John McNeill family papers, 1859-1901. 2. John McNeill professional papers, 1859-1901.

Dates: 1859-1901
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John McNeill papers

Utah Militia orders

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233292918]
Identifier: Vault MSS 731
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed Utah Militia orders covering the period 1852-1866. All documents were written by or to David Moore (1819- ). Items concern resignations, courts martial, supply matters, and general administration.

Dates: 1852-1866
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Utah Militia orders

Mitchell family biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305416]
Identifier: MSS SC 794
Scope and Contents Photocopies of handwritten and typed texts. Consists of two biographical sketches, one of Margaret Mitchell Blyth (1824-1910) and the other of Elizabeth Ann Blyth (1859-1919), written by one of their descendants, Pearl Elizabeth Mitchell Boyce (1881- ), and an autobiographical sketch of Pearl Boyce.Discusses Margaret's birth in Scotland and her family's subsequent immigration to Canada and later to the United States; their conversion to the Mormon Church in California; their...
Dates: 1948-1951
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Mitchell family biographies

Frihoff Godfred Nielson diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 809
Dates: 1875-1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Frihoff Godfred Nielson diaries

Per diem receipt

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230310937]
Identifier: MSS SC 1268
Scope and Contents

Handwritten per diem receipt dated 20 February 1852 signed by W. W. Phelps and Albert Carrington. The receipt is for Albert Rockwood's attendance at the 1851-1852 Utah Territaorial Legislature.

Dates: 1852 February 20
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Per diem receipt

Brigham Young, William Wines Phelps and Willard Richards petition to Congress

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233292884]
Identifier: Vault MSS 726
Scope and Contents

Handwritten petition to the Congress of the United States for an appropriation of sixty-thousand dollars for the erection of a territorial prison in Utah. The item is signed by W. W. Phelps, Willard Richards, and Brigham Young. The petition states that the prison is needed because of "multiplied crimes and offenses which demand the retribution of imprisonment."

Dates: 1852
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brigham Young, William Wines Phelps and Willard Richards petition to Congress

Philip S. Kane correspondence, date of production not identified

 Sub-Series — Box 40: Series 7 [Barcode: 31197232551066]
Identifier: Vault MSS 792 Series 7 Sub-Series 9
Scope and Contents

Contains a letter by Kane to William Wood Kane regarding airplanes.

Dates: Majority of material found within date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 792, Kane family papers / Kane family personal papers

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