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Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232550480]
Identifier: MSS 843
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, reports, documents, and passenger lists of ships of the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company. The first folder contains an index of the collection.

Dates: 1853-1880
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company records

Erastus Fairbanks Snow letter to James McGaw

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239244871], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 9138
Content Description Handwritten letter sent by Erastus Snow to James McGaw. Letter is signed for Erastus Snow by James M. Brown and sent from St. Louis, Missouri. This letter discusses the passage of Latter-day Saint member James Mather and his family from Liverpool, England to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1855. Elder James M. Brown, writing for Apostle Erastus Snow, sent this receipt and order to Elder James McGaw in Atchison, Kansas Territory to supply Mather with wagons and oxen for the overland trip to Utah....
Dates: 1855 May 21
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Erastus Fairbanks Snow letter to James McGaw

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