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Utah. (Territory). Governor. Executive proceedings, 1850-1854. [microfilm]

Title: Executive proceedings, 1850-1854. [microfilm]

Includes some documents to 1858.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. : manuscript ; 5mm., pos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80814592 View

Pratt, Orson, 1811-1881. Certificate, 22 Jan 1859.

Title: Certificate, 22 Jan 1859.

Pratt's certificate of appointment as Chancellor of the Deseret University, signed by governor Alfred Cumming.

ArchivalResource: 1 pp. : manuscript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122497664 View

Kane, Thomas Leiper, 1822-1883. Thomas Leiper Kane papers, 1846-1883.

Title: Thomas Leiper Kane papers, 1846-1883.

Papers cover primarily Kane's two trips west, in 1846-1847 and in 1858. The collection contains letters, diaries, agreements, clippings, notes for articles and lectures, drafts, sketches, and diagrams. Predominant subject matter is the Mormons, their history, migrations, persecution, and characteristics. Descriptions of travel across the Isthmus of Panama and between San Bernadino, Calif. and Salt Lake City, Utah are also found in the collection.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122387534 View

Cumming, Alfred. Papers, 1857-1858. [microfilm].

Title: Papers, 1857-1858. [microfilm].

ArchivalResource: 1 reel : manuscript ; 35mm., neg.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122700424 View

Young Brigham, 1801-1877. Collection, 1857-1877.

Title: Collection, 1857-1877.

Copies of the Office Journal, correspondence and will. Journal entries date from January 1858 to January 1860. Correspondence is outgoing to such names as Horace S. Eldredge, J.W. Coward, Alfred Cumming, Charles C. Rich, Albert Carrington, Newel K. Whitney. Includes also a copy of the will and various other items.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83722529 View

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. St. Louis Superintendency Field. United States, Office of Indian Affairs, St. Louis Superintendency Field records, 1807-1855.

Title: United States, Office of Indian Affairs, St. Louis Superintendency Field records, 1807-1855.

These superintendency records, sometimes called the William Clark papers, include record copies of letters sent and received, accounts and other fiscal records relating to the superintendency and various agents and subagents, many miscellaneous records, an office diary kept for William Clark, 1826-1831, and two record books of the Missouri Fur Company, 1812-1817. Some of the records antedate the organization as such of the St. Louis Superintendency in 1822, and others extend beyond Clark's own death in 1838. Letters received are mainly for the periods 1830-1832, 1839-1846; letters sent for the periods 1829-1832, 1839-1855, reflecting the superintendencies of Clark, Joshua Pilcher, David D. Mitchell, Thomas H. Harvey, and Alfred Cumming. (Cont.) During most of this period the jurisdiction of the St. Louis Superintendency extended over the upper Mississippi and the entire Missouri River Valley.

ArchivalResource: 33 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26021347 View

Photographic Portrait File

Title: Photographic Portrait File

ArchivalResource:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7j49n8zt View

Chicago Historical Society. Miscellaneous Mormon material.

Title: Miscellaneous Mormon material.

Includes manuscripts, broadsides, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel ; 35mm., pos.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122653593 View

Alfred Cumming Papers, 1792-1889

Title: Alfred Cumming Papers, 1792-1889

Public official, Indian agent, and Territorial Governor of Utah (1857-1861). Family and political correspondence, mainly of the 1850s, with material on Mormon history, including the "Mormon War," and on frontier and pioneer life. Includes journals, scrapbooks, letter books, and proceedings pertaining to councils and negotiations with the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes (1855). Letters of Cumming's wife, Elizabeth Wells Randall Cumming, describe incidents on her trip to Utah with her husband when he was named governor with frontier conditions and Indian troubles. Cumming's official letter books contain correspondence to James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Howell Cobb, John B. Floyd, Albert S. Johnston, Brigham Young, and others. Additional correspondents include W.W. Bibb, J.S. Black, William Medill, B.F. Perry, Franklin Pierce, Alexander Stephens, and G.M. Troup. Includes papers of William Clay Cumming, a brother, pertaining to his studies at Princeton University (1805) and at Litchfield Law School; his accounts of opposition to Federalism in New England; his experiences in the War of 1812; travels in the Mississippi Valley and the South; and a few comments on Brazil and Uruguay (1816). The collection also contains papers from Thomas Cumming.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 Linear Feet; 760 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/cummingalfred/ View