Immigration and American Expansion
Found in 1067 Collections and/or Records:
John Lowe Butler autobiographies
Collection includes three typewritten versions of the autobiography of John Lowe Butler. The autobiographies describe Butler's conversion to the Latter-day Saint Church, building Nauvoo, Illinois, officiating in the temple, experiences as Joseph Smith's bodyguard, the martyrdom of Smith, the expulsion from Nauvoo, the journey to Utah, the colonization of Spanish Fork, Utah, the Utah War and genealogical information of the Butler family, family wills and patriarchal blessings.
Jacob Kemp Butterfield letter
Photocopy and typescript of a handwritten letter written while on the march with the Mormon Battalion. The item is addressed to Butterfield's mother and gives particulars about the Mormon pioneer trek to the west as well as the Mormon Battalion's mission and activities. Butterfield explains his Mormon faith to his mother.
Sketch of David Bowman Bybees life: pioneer of 1851
Richard Evelyn Byrd letter
Typewritten and signed letter. Byrd writes to Melvin H. Schoberlin of Denver, Colorado, on 18 Aug. 1928 to inform him that he will not be able to carry a letter for Schoberlin on the upcoming "Byrd Antartic Expedition."
History of Ann Mariah Bowen Call
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is a biography of Ann Bowen Call written by an unspecified person at an unknown time. Ann Bowen was born in Bethany, New York, and later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. She later migrated to Utah and settled in Davis County in 1851. In that year, she married Anson Call. She lived in a number of towns in Utah and finally settled in Bountiful. The biography talks about her experiences with Indians.
Robert Lang Campbell journal
Ann Quayle Cannon biography
Photocopy of a typed biography of Ann Quayle Cannon, a convert to the Mormon Church from the Isle of Mann, who died crossing the ocean to America. Much of the material was taken from John Q. Cannon's book, "George Cannon Ancestry: Posterity and Native Land".
David H. Cannon autobiography
Typewritten autobiography which describes emigration from England to Utah, 1842-1847, his church missions to California, England and Utah's Dixie and his experiences as an immigrant leader. Gives data on church positions, including his calling as president of the St. George, Utah Latter-day Saint Temple.
Johanna Christina Danielson Cannon personal history
Photocopy of a handwritten personal history. Cannon describes her emigration to Utah, her homesteading experiences there, and her marriage as a plural wife to Angus M. Cannon.