Immigration and American Expansion
Found in 1065 Collections and/or Records:
Biography : Joseph and Elizabeth Hobson Robinson
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Joseph Robinson was born in 1827 in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840. Joseph migrated to the United States and married Elizabeth Hobson in 1850 in St. Louis, Missouri. Elizabeth was born in 1830 in England. They came to Utah and lived for a time in Tooele, but they settled in American Fork. Elizabeth died in 1908 and Joseph died in 1917.
Biography : Joseph Smith Clements Kirkwood
Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Joseph Smith Clements Kirkwood was born in 1851 in Scotland. His family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in the Willie handcart company. The biography is chiefly an account of Joseph's sufferings on the trek. He settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1933.
Biography : Kezia Keys Durrant
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Kezia Keys was born in 1844 in England. Her family later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1866 and settled in American Fork. She became the third wife of John Durrant in 1867, and she died in 1917.
Biography : Lois Russell Harrington
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Lois Russell Harrington was born in 1823 in Sparta, New York. She married Leonard Elsworth Harrington in 1840, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1841, moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1842, migrated to Utah in 1847, and moved to American Fork in 1850. She died in 1902.
Biography : Mary Childs Robbins
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed biography. Mary Childs was born in 1830 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and married James Robbins in 1859. She migrated to Utah in 1860. She lived in a number of towns in Utah in Colorado. She died in 1914.
Biography : Mary Stoddard Mott
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Stoddard was born in England in 1845 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1852. She migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Edward Ellsworth handcart company. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and married Stephen Mott in 1862. She died in 1916.
Biography Nicholas T. Silcock and Jane Heath : came to Utah in 1850, Bishop Hunter Co.
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Nicholas Thomas Silcock was born in 1819 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migraged to Nauvoo, Illinois, and later to Utah. He died in 1906. Jane Heath was born in 1826 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married Nicholas Silcock, migrated to Utah in 1850, and died in 1902.
Biography of Agnes Hunter Householder, pioneer : came to Utah in 1863
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Agnes Hunter was born in Scotland in 1859 and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1863 and settled in American Fork. She married in 1877. She ran a boarding house at Sunshine, a mining camp just four miles from Mercur, Utah.
A biography of Alexander Williams
Typewritten biography. The year of the composition of the item is unknown. Kimball writes that Williams was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1847, had encounters with the Ute Indians, lived as a polygamist, and converted to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Biography of Alley Stephen Rose
Typewritten biography of Rose which includes excerpts from his journal telling of his early life in the Midwest, his trek across the Plains to Utah, and his settlement in Farmington, Utah. It also gives details of his travels in later life and his various callings in the Latter-day Saint Church.