Immigration and American Expansion
Found in 1065 Collections and/or Records:
Biography : Susan Hay Binns, born and died in England
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Susan Hay was born in England and married John Binns. She gave birth to her first child in 1829 and died soon after her second child was born.
Jane Robinson Hindley biographical sketch
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten copy of an autobiography. Jane was born on the Isle of Man, England, in 1828. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to the United States in 1855. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and married John Hindley in 1856. She died in 1907. Also included is a brief biographical sketch of Jane written after her death.
Biographical sketch and recollections from the life of Martina Marjorie Halseth Bitner
Printed sketch and photographs of an early Utah pioneer.
Biographical sketch Josiah Nicholes : pioneer of 1851
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Nicholes was born in England in 1815 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1848. He migrated to Utah in 1851 and settled in American Fork. He was a farmer, butcher, and father of 17 children. He died in 1893.
Biographical sketch of Alice T. Steele
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Alice Chadwick was born in England in 1844, and she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1854. She migrated to Utah in 1869 by railroad and settled in American Fork. She married George Taylor in 1870 and was "set apart" as a midwife in 1883. After the death of George, Alice married Thomas G. Steele. She died in 1917.
Biographical sketch of Anthony Johnson Stratton
Handwritten sketch which describes life of a Mormon pioneer and colonizer, work on the Nauvoo, Illinois Temple, exodus to Utah (1850), duties in militia in Cedar City, Utah, settlement of Snowflake, Arizona (1877), and his joining the United Order (1878).
Biographical sketch of Charlotte Wood Greenwood
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of typewritten biography. Charlotte Wood Greenwood was born in England in 1851, and she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859. She came to American in 1861 and settled in American Fork, Utah. She married William Houghton Greenwood in 1870 and had ten children.
Biographical sketch of Eliza Williams Hindley
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Eliza Williams was born in England in 1830 and later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She later came to Utah, married John Hindley, and lived in American Fork.
Biographical sketch of Hannah Meredith White
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Hannah Meredith was born in 1855 in Wales. Her family had been converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they migrated to Utah in 1863. The family first lived in Salt Lake City and later in Vernon in Tooele County. She married Joseph White in 1875, and she and her husband moved to American Fork in 1906. She died in 1939.
Biographical sketch of Harriet Wood Robinson
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Harriet Wood was born in England in 1839. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois. They came to Utah in 1851 and settled in American Fork. She married William Walker Robinson and died in 1876.