Abstract

A photocopy of a family history and autograph book of Thomas Jarvis Yates and his descendants, 1987.

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Scrapbook includes photographs, newspaper clippings, and related ephemera gathered during Ernest Bosgieter's service as a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Southern States Mission between 1927 and 1929.

Scope and Contents Contains a handwritten autobiography and diaries related to Boyle's life and experience as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The autobiography was written beginning in 1844 and, in the same volume, he starts a diary in 1846. Boyle kept 14 additional volumes of diaries, dating from 1855 to 1889. Most of the content relates to Boyle's missionary experiences in California and to Southern States Mission, including while he was mission president from 1875 to 1878. Also...

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Diaries (1893, 1940, 1943, and 1945), correspondence (1892-1947), reports of the Southern States Mission (1908-1934), sermons, articles, personal certificates, speeches, patriarchal blessings, and miscellaneous items. These materials deal with a wide range of Mormon theological and administrative issues. They also deal with personal and family matters.

Scope and Contents The journal of William Anderson McGinley, officially bears the name, "Loose thoughts, rambles in the South, southern scenes, the aimless dreams of one and twenty, the 'ominous gatherings' of idle hours commenced in the early part of my 22nd year, 1852." He accounts of leaving home on 28 January 1852 and studying at Mount Pisgah (Arkansas?) in November young McGinley has entered. This journal records in an interesting and chatty manner William's struggles to abandon a rather dissipated...

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T. Joseph Steed mission paper, 1923-1926, includes three archival series: 1)Correspondence, 1923-1926 -- 2)News Reviews, 1925-1926 -- 3)Miscellaneous Items, 1925-1926.

Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries, account books, photographs, and miscellaneous items. The diaries cover the years 1896 to 1901, 1903, and 1943 to 1948. Webster gives details about his mission experiences, family matters, and work. The account books relate to personal finances. Also included are brief histories of George Thomas Webster; his father, George Matthew Webster; and his wife, Ada Amelia Dansie Webster. The photographs are taken from a disbounded book of remembrance and include pictures of...