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Immigration and American Expansion

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:

W. H. Hooper letter

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489085]
Identifier: MSS 885
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter written March 21, 1861 at the Kirkwood Hotel in Washington, D.C. and addressed to Col. Thomas W. Ellerbeck in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hooper writes about the possibility of sending arms to Utah and of arming immigrants coming to Utah.

Dates: 1861 March 21
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : Hyrum Huggard

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339720]
Identifier: MSS 2539
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Huggard was born in 1856 in Iowa. His family were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they left for Utah three weeks after Hyrum was born. They later moved to American Fork, Utah. He married and had seven children and died in 1939.

Dates: 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John Taylor Hughes diaries

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233287728]
Identifier: Vault MSS 235
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries in pencil and ink kept from 17 Aug. 1846 to 1 May 1847. Hughes writes about the "Doniphan Expedition" into New Mexico. The item was published in Willima E. Connelley's "Doniphan's Expedition" in 1907.

Dates: 1846-1847
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James Humphries Biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329622]
Identifier: MSS SC 3094
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of James Humphries, who was born in Bradford on Avon, England, in 1831. He tells about going to Australia in 1850, joining the Mormon Church in 1854, and starting to migrate to Utah in 1855. He writes about his many callings for the Mormon Church. "August 24, 1910. I have been very sick several days. Today I am very sick. It seems my last days has come now. I want to ask our children one and all if I am taken,...
Dates: 1910
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Huntington Chapter collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1271
Abstract

Collection is comprised of typewritten biographies of residents of Huntington, Utah. Also included are several documents pertaining to the history of Huntington, Utah.

Dates: 1900-1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Oliver Boardman Huntington autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230321108]
Identifier: MSS SC 2219
Scope and Contents

Handwritten unsigned, autobiographical account believed to have been written by Huntington. The author writes of being called by Brigham Young and Daniel H. Wells to go with an expedition to Carson Valley and tell the Mormons there to return to Utah to meet the United States army, known as "Johnston's Army" in 1857. Huntington gives and account of this expedition and mentions those who participated in it.

Dates: approximately 1880
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

[Illustrations for E. N. Wilson's The white Indian boy (Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y. : World Book Co., 1919)]

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2901
Dates: 1919
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

In memory of

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340702]
Identifier: MSS 2502
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten poem. Ingersoll praises pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dates: 1939
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

In the pioneer group to the Iron Co. Mission, was another great leader, Anson Call, who became a great colonizer

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329770]
Identifier: MSS SC 3079
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm reproduction of a typed manuscript. The item is a biography of Anson Call by an unnamed author. The date of composition is uncertain. Anson Call was born in Fletcher, Franklin County, Vermont on 13 May 1810. Call married Mary Flint and later joined the Mormon Church. "He was closely associated with the Prophet Joseph [Joseph Smith, 1805-1844], and with the saints was driven from his home. He had a great love the the Prophet and did all he could to protect him...
Dates: 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Daniel H. Wells indenture

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233283420]
Identifier: Vault MSS 43
Scope and Contents

Handwritten indenture dated 24 May 1842 between Wells and Wilson Law relating to a sale of land in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Dates: 1842 May 24
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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