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Immigration and American Expansion

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Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 1068 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Robert Allen Jones

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341007]
Identifier: MSS 2675
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Robert Allen Jones was born in 1854 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1866. He settled in Henefer, Utah, married Elizabeth Jane Parker, and died in 1939.

Dates: 1944
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Robert Jones

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341015]
Identifier: MSS 2674
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Robert Jones was born in 1829 in England. He married Harriett Tipper in 1852 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He migrated to Utah in 1866 and died in Henefer in 1906.

Dates: 1944
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of William Jones

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340827]
Identifier: MSS 2673
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. William Jones was born in England. After the death of his wife, he migrated to Utah in 1868 and settled in Henefer. He died in 1889.

Dates: 1944
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Joseph Barnard Romney collection of photographs, 1900-1970

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8248 Series 5
Scope and Contents

Contains a collection of photographs of Mexico and photographs of gatherings of the Kansas City Life Insurance Company President's Club and Romney family photos. Dates from 1900-1970.

Dates: 1900-1970
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Joseph Barnard Romney collection on Junius and Gertrude Stowell Romney

Joseph Barnard Romney collection on Junius Romney in Mexico, 1899-2005

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8248 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence and biographies of individuals who were in the Mormon colonies in Mexico. Also includes manuscripts written by Joseph Barnard Romney and articles by others about the Mormon exodus out of Mexico. Material dates from 1899-2005.

Dates: 1899-2005
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Joseph Barnard Romney collection on Junius and Gertrude Stowell Romney

Joseph City : on the Little Colorado

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1094
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typed draft of a book by George Shepard Tanner and Joseph Morris Richards. The work in a revised form was published in 1977 under the title: "Colonization on the Little Colorado: the Joseph City Region." The book is about Mormon settlement and colonization in the Little Colorado area of Northern Arizona.

Dates: 1972
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Journal of crossing the plains in 1850

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 108
Scope and Contents Handwritten account of Keith's overland journey from St. Joseph, Missouri to Weaverville, California, in 1850. Keith paid a "Mr. Platner" to guide him and seventeen others to California. After being swindled and abandoned at Fort Laramie, Keith was furnished with provisions by the fort's commanding officer. The diary describes difficult travelling conditions, lack of feed and clean water for the company's animals, and problems with Indians. Keith also passed through Salt Lake City and gives...
Dates: 1850
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Journal of travels through the American northwest

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309475]
Identifier: MSS SC 1171
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a transcript. The journal describes the travels of an unnamed individual through the states of Missouri, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and California as well as a return trip by sea from California through Panama. The document ends as the author approaches New York City by sea. Through out the journal the author gives descriptions of his surroundings as well as incidents. This item is dated from April 14, 1865 to Nov. 9, 1865.

Dates: 1865
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Journey across the Sierra Nevadas

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230335306]
Identifier: MSS SC 3323
Scope and Contents

The author of the account was 11 1/2 years old when he made the journey from Sacramento, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1860. He apparently recorded this event later in life. He uses fictional names and never identified himself or his family's name. An older couple decided they wanted to go to Utah at the last minute, and because his family's wagon was the lightest, they took the older couple with them. Along the way, they encountered a few difficulties and the old lady died.

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

Asa W. Judd poems

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329937]
Identifier: MSS SC 3050
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copies of two poems about Parowan, Utah, entitled: "Parowan Pioneers," and "Parowan : Old Parowan."

Dates: 1947
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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