PH 5962, Smith, George Albert 1817-1875. George A. Smith photograph collection circa 1862-1873

Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...

First Presidency

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In 2013 the name of the devotional was changed from "First Presidency Christmas Devotional" to "Christmas Devotional." It is unknown whether this new name will continue into the future or if the title will change back at a future date. (Alison Miles, 2014-04-30). From the guide to the AV 977 First Presidency Christmas devotionals : Salt Lake City, Utah 1983-1989, 1991-2003, 2005-2014 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Library) ...

Presiding Bishopric

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Connor, Patrick Edward, 1820-1891

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Patrick Edward Connor was born in rural County Kerry, Ireland on St. Patrick's Day, 1820. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted, as "Patrick Edward O'Connor", in the United States Army on November 28, 1839. In addition to service in the Seminole Wars, he served as a dragoon at Fort Leavenworth, Fort Atkinson, Fort Sandford, and at the second Fort Des Moines. He was honorably discharged as a private on November 28, 1844, and after two years in New York, he moved to Texas. On April 5, 184...

Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885

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Schuyler Colfax Jr. (March 23, 1823 – January 13, 1885) was an American journalist, businessman, and politician who served as the 17th Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873, and prior to that as the 25th Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1863 to 1869. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Indiana's 9th congressional district as a member of the anti-slavery Indiana People's Party in 1854, Colfax joined the Republican Party during his first term. He served as ...

Kelly, Edward

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McLelland, Thomas 1819-1890

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Goddard, George, 1815-1899.

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Goddard was first assistant superintendent of the Deseret Sunday School Union from 1872. From the guide to the MS 4027 George Goddard papers 1855-1899 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Library) ...

Brizzee, Henry Willard 1826-1898

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Kimball, Vilate Murray, 1806-1867

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Bouck, John A. 1798-1884

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Bennett, Frank F.

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Young, Mary Ann Angell, 1803-1882

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Lyman, Eliza Maria Partridge, 1820-1886

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Mormon woman and Utah pioneer. From the description of Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman diary, 1846-1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536573 From the guide to the Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman diary, 1846-1885, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Early Mormon convert, plural wife of Joseph Smith, Jr., in 1843, and of Amasa Lyman in 1848; arrived in Utah in 1849. From the description of Diary, 1820-1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86172004 Eliz...

Peck, Martin Horton 1806-1884

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Fullmer, Desdemona Wadsworth 1809-1886

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Gates, Jacob, 1811-1892

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Member of the First Council of the Seventy, 1862-1892. From the guide to the MS 1501 Jacob Gates journals 1836-1861 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Library) One of the seven presidents of the First Council of the Seventies, 1862-1892. From the guide to the MS 12618 Jacob Gates collection circa 1835-1957 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Library) Jacob Gates (1811-1892) was president of ...

Hunter, Edward, 1793-1883

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Tanner, currier, surveyor, and farmer who joined the Mormon Church in 1840 and served as Presiding Bishop (1852-1883) for that faith. From the description of Letter, 1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86171871 From the description of Correspondence, 1725-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122494599 From the guide to the Edward Hunter correspondence, 1725-1965, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Presiding bishop of the LDS church, 1851-1883. ...

Huntington, D. B. (Dimick Baker), 1808-1879

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St. Clair, Alexander M.

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Bross, William, 1813-1890

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Journalist; started Democratic Press (which later became Chicago Tribune) with John L. Scripps, Chicago, 1852; Illinois lieutenant-governor, 1865-1869. From the description of Letter : Springfield, [Illinois] to A[braham] Lincoln, 1865 Jan. 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27731664 William Bross and J. L. Scripps were editors of the Chicago Tribune. From the description of Letter, February 24, 1861. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Lib...

Kingsbury, Joseph Corrodon 1812-1898

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Hancock, Levi W. (Levi Ward), 1803-1882

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Member of the First Council of the Seventy. From the guide to the MS 1395 Levi W. Hancock papers 1832-1878 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Library) Hancock was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and a pioneer to Utah. He also served in the Mormon Battalion in the War with Mexico. From the description of Journal, 1846-1847. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 51601440 Born in Massachusetts,...

Moon, Henry, 1819-1894

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Mormon bishop in Salt Lake City, Utah. From the description of Diary, 1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536765 From the guide to the Henry Moon diary, 1860, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Carmichael, William 1804b

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McLeod, Norman W

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West, Chauncey Walker 1827-1870

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St. Clair, Augusta N.

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Waldron, George B. (George Burnside), 1862-

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Doty, James Duane, 1799-1865

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James Duane Doty (1799-1865) was a lawyer, judge, and government official. He represented Wisconsin in Congress between 1838 and 1841, and again between 1849 and 1853. He was governor of Wisconsin Territory between 1841 and 1844, and served as the governor of Utah Territory between 1863 and 1865. From the description of James Duane Doty letter, 1861 November 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367719059 From the guide to the James Duane Doty letter, 1861 November 22, (L. Tom ...

Ballif, Serge Louis 1821-1901

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Irwin, Selden M. 1833-1891

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Cram, Charles Sanborn 1823-1904

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Smith, Alexander H. (Alexander Hale), 1838-1909

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A patriarch in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. From the description of Patriarchal blessings, 1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122551219 From the guide to the Alexander H. Smith patriarchal blessings, 1902, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Richards, Phinehas, 1788-1874.

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Smith, Lucy Meserve Smith 1817-1892

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Heller, Robert

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James, Jane Elizabeth Manning, 1813-1908

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Lunt, Mary Ann Wilson 1834-1910

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Pratt, Orson, 1811-1881

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Orson Pratt (1811-1881) was a member of the Council of Twelves Apostles of the Latter-day Saint Church, serving from 1835 to 1881. From the description of Orson Pratt letter and postcard, 1861, 1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 365148968 From the guide to the Orson Pratt papers and postcard, 1861, 1881, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Mormon Church leader, philosopher, and Utah pioneer. From the description of Letter, 1878. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...

Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902.

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Mormon pioneer who settled in Parowan, Utah. From the description of Diary, 1850-1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83588704 Henry Lunt (1824-1902) was baptized into the Mormon Church in Birmingham, England in 1849. He came to Utah the following year and volunteered to go with settlers to Iron County. In 1851 he was called as to be the captain of the company that founded Cedar City. Later from 1854-1857 Lunt went on a mission to England. From the description of...

Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909

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Reinhard Maeser was the son of Karl G. Maeser, a president of Brigham Young Academy. He was born in 1855 and died in 1926. From the description of Reinhard Maeser photograph collection, 1855-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367867066 Pioneer Utah photographer. From the description of C.R. Savage diaries, 1855-1909. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 365135505 C.R. Savage was a prominent photographer of Utah and the West. He is known for his photographs o...

Reed, Amos 1824-1887

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Rumfield, Hiram S

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Gibson, Lydia Hazell 1837-1866

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Salt Lake Theatre (Utah)

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Price, Sterling, 1809-1867

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Missouri governor. From the description of Papers, 1856. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36115930 Gov. of Missouri. From the description of Letter signed : City of Jefferson, to President Pierce, 1853 Nov. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619013 ...

Sutterley Brothers (Photography Studios)

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Parry, Margaret Smith 1862-1913

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Benson, Ezra T. (Ezra Taft), 1811-1869

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Kenney is a Mormon author and historian. From the guide to the Scott G. Kenney research materials, 1820-1984, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Mormon apostle, polygymist, and territorial legislator who arrived in Utah with the pioneer company of 1847. From the description of Receipt, 1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122391885 From the guide to the Ezra Taft Benson receipt, 1853, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Ezra Taft Benson was born ...

Rich, Charles C. (Charles Coulson), 1809-1883

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Charles Coulson Rich was born on August 21, 1809, in Campbell County, Kentucky. He was instructed in the Mormon faith by Lyman Wight and baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by George M. Hinckle in 1832. In 1838 he married Sarah D. Pea, the first of his six wives. Rich lived in Calfwell County, Missouri, and fought in the Battle of Crooked River. He and his family later settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, where Rich was made a member of the Council of Fifty and served in the Na...

Smith, Susan Elizabeth West, 1833-1926.

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Smith, Silas Sanford, 1830-1910

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Mormon colonizer. From the description of Diary, 1879-1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699252 From the guide to the Silas Sanford Smith diary, 1879-1880, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Utah pioneer, legislator, militia officer, colonizer, and Mormon Church leader. From the description of Letters, 1860-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122480112 From the guide to the Silas Sanford Smith letters, 1860-1891, (L. Tom Perry Special Coll...

Graves, Mary Newman 1817-1905

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Derr, William 1813-1897

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Shumway, Charles, 1806-1898

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Young, Brigham, 1801-1877

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Second president of the Mormon Church. From the description of Certificate, 1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122630973 American religious leader, second president of the Mormon Church, first governor of the Territory of Utah, and colonizer who significantly influenced the development of the American West. From the description of Cash ledger books, 1862-1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122480196 From the description of Cash ledger books 1862-1877 ...

Kanosh Ute Chief 1881d

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Smith, Samuel H. B. (Samuel Harrison Bailey), 1838-1914

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Smith was a Mormon pioneer, an employee of the Mormon Church in the historian's office and the Endowment House, and ran a diary business. Smith was a nephew of the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith (1805-1844), was orphaned at age six, was a polygamist, served on three missions for the Mormon church, and was active in politics and public affairs. From the description of Diary, 1840?-1889, bulk 1860-1863. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122486625 From the guide to the Samuel H.B. S...

Croxall, Mark 1844-1889

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Smith, Levira A. (Levira Annette), 1842-1888

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Kenney is a Mormon author and historian. From the guide to the Scott G. Kenney research materials, 1820-1984, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865

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Actor; assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. From the description of John Wilkes Booth-Miller collection, 19??-1946 / Ernest Conrad Miller. (Allegheny College). WorldCat record id: 44935230 From the description of Papers, 1863 June-1865 April. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27418055 From the description of Letter: Franklin, [Pennsylvania], to John, [18]64 June 17. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 27418059 ...

Smith, George Albert, 1817-1875

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George Albert Smith (June 26, 1817 ₁ September 1, 1875) (commonly known as George A. Smith to distinguish him from his grandson of the same name) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and as a member of the church's First Presidency. From the description of Letter to Silas S. Smith, 1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367846413 From the description of George A. Smith letters and invoices, 1864-1973. (Unknown). W...

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Whitmer, David, 1805-1888

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Early Mormon Church leader and one of the "Three Witnesses" to the "Golden Plates" from which the Book of Mormon was translated. From the description of Letter, 1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122702266 Lawyer, district court judge, mission president for the Mormon Church in Canada, member of the First Council of the Seventy of the Mormon Church. From the guide to the Charles Henry Hart diary, 1883-1885, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Pace, William Byram 1832-1907

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Pratt, Mary Wood 1818-1898

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Hunt, Jefferson, 1804-1879

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Mormon pioneer and United States military officer. From the description of Biographical sketch of Jefferson Hunt, [n.d.] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145434994 ...

Bowring, Henry Ebenezer 1822-1906

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Johnson, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1905

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Benjamin F. Johnson (1818-1905) was a Mormon missionary and patriarch, farmer, orchardist, and freighter. He served as private secretary to Joseph Smith. From the description of Benjamin F. Johnson photograph, circa 1890. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 213457759 Benjamin Franklin Johnson, born 28 July 1818 in New York, was a patriarch in the LDS Church and personal friend of Joseph Smith Jr. From the guide to the Benjamin Franklin Johnson papers,...

Young, Naamah Kendel Jenkins Carter 1821-1909

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Ellis, Delia Annette Hyde 1849-1907

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Carrington, Albert, 1813-1889

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Mormon handcart pioneer and polygynist who came to Utah 16 September 1848 with the Brigham Young company. Phelps served as a justice of the peace, notary public, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Utah legislature. From the guide to the Per diem receipt, 1852, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) LDS apostle, member of the first pioneer company in 1847, participant in the Stansbury suvery of 1848-50. From the description of Papers, ca. 1840-1889. (Unknown...

Smith, Sarah Farr, 1849-1921

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McRae, Alexander, 1807-1891.

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McRae was a soldier, tailor, sheriff, militia captain, and bishop for the Mormon Church of the Salt Lake City 11th ward from 1857 to 1891. From the description of Letters, 1880-1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122637420 From the guide to the Alexander McRae letters, 1880-1886, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Bigler, Armelia Caroline Mangum 1834-1916

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Lyman, Amasa M. (Amasa Mason), 1813-1877

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Amasa M. Lyman was a member of Council of the Twelve Apostles. From the guide to the MS 829 Amasa M. Lyman collection 1832-1877 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Library) Amasa Mason Lyman was an apostle in the LDS Church from 1842 to 1867. He arrived in Utah in 1847, assisted in the founding of the Mormon colony in San Bernardino, California in 1850, and served as a missionary in Great Britain in 1861. He was excommunicated from the LDS Church in ...

Young, Harriet Page Wheeler 1803-1871

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Smith, Jesse Nathaniel, 1834-1906

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Mormon Church leader, polygamist, pioneer, attorney, judge, legislator from Utah and Arizona. Born in New York as the youngest cousin of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, Jesse Nathaniel Smith lived nearly all his life on the American frontier. He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Nauvoo on August 13, 1843. From his youth he had shared the trying experiences and persecutions of the Saints in New York, Ohio, and Missouri. At the age of eleven he crossed t...

Phelps, William Wines, 1792-1872

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Mormon handcart pioneer and polygynist who came to Utah 16 September 1848 with the Brigham Young company. Phelps served as a justice of the peace, notary public, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Utah legislature. From the description of Per diem receipt 1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699469 From the guide to the Per diem receipt, 1852, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Second President of the Mormon Church, colonizer, and territorial governor o...

Patriarch to the Church

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Demille, Freeborn 1795-1881

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Harris, Martin, 1783-1875

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Mormon Church leader who was one of the special witnesses to the Book of Mormon. From the description of Legal documents, 1846-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122609101 From the guide to the Martin Harris legal documents, 1846-1865, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Scofield, Joseph Smith, 1809-1875.

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Joseph Smith Scofield was born in Windham County, New York, on 2 August 1809. He was a member of the first company of Mormon pioneers who traveled to the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. Scofield died in Bellevue, Washington County, Utah, on 8 March 1875. From the guide to the Joseph Smith Scofield diary, 1846-1847, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) ...

Taylor, Ellen Susanna Colebrook 1847-1910

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Riser, George Christian, 1818-1892.

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Shoemaker and convert to the Mormon Church in Nauvoo, Illinois. From the description of Biographical papers, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461158 From the guide to the George Christian Riser biographical papers, Undated, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) George Christian Riser (1818-1892) was born on 16 July 1818, at Kornwesthime, Württemberg, Germany, a son of Christopher Casper Riser and Barbara Hoffman. He immigrated to America in 1831, was baptized ...

Smoot, A. O. (Abraham Owen), 1815-1895

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Abraham O. Smoot was born 17 February 1815 in Owenton, Franklin County (later Owen County), Kentucky. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1835, when twenty years old, and led a group of Saints from the south to Far West, Missouri in 1837. He later served as captain of the second company to enter the Salt Lake Valley, arriving in September of 1847. He served approximately nine different missions for the Church, acted as president of the Perpetual Emigrating Fun...

Smith, John, 1832-1911

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John Smith, son of Hyrum and Jerusha Barden Smith, was born 22 September 1832, in Kirtland, Ohio. His mother died when he was five, while his father was in Missouri. Three months later, on 24 December 1837, his father married Mary Fielding. In June 1844 John's father, Hyrum Smith, was murdered. Nineteen months later, the Mormon exodus from Nauvoo began. In February 1847, John joined Heber C. Kimball's family on their westward journey. On the westward journey, near Council Bluffs, Iowa, John assi...

Fennemore, James, 1849-1941

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Mormon pioneer. From the description of Letter, 1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122630856 James Fennemore (1849-1941) was a photographer in Utah. He worked for C.R. Savage, and participated in the Powell survey. From the description of James Fennemore photographs, circa 1850s-1890s. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 228078931 James Fennemore (1849-1941), American photographer, was a photographer with the 1870s. From the des...

Corbett, Thomas P. 1832b

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Lyon, Caleb, 1822-1875

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Caleb Lyon (1821-1875), United States consul at Shanghai, 1847, assistant secretary of the California Constitutional Convention, 1849, New York State Assembly person, member of the United States Congress, territorial governor of Idaho, 1864-66. From the description of Autograph, 1865 Dec 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127744 Politician. Caleb Lyon was U.S. Consul to Shanghai, Congressman, Assistant Secretary of the Monterey Convention, 1849, a...

McCurdy, Solmon P.

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Irwin, Maria

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Cahoon, Daniel Stiles 1822-1903

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Couldock, C. W. (Charles Walter), 1815-1898

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American actor. From the description of Scrapbook, 1855-1891. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29624094 ...

Washakie, Chief (Native American painter, 1798-1900)

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Council of the Twelve Apostles (1835-1995)

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Johnson, Julia Marie Johnson 1842-1915

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Harris, Nancy Ann Homer 1841-1876

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Young, John, 1791-1870.

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Mormon pioneer and brother of the second president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young. From the description of A vision, ca. 1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435844 ...

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Liston, Commodore Perry, 1821-1879.

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Mormon pioneer. From the description of Autobiography, 1877. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79406112 Commodore Perry Liston was born on March 31, 1821. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Iowa in 1850, married Elizabeth Reeves, and accompanied Thomas Hatch and James Dean from Utah to New Mexico in 1878. Liston died in Woodruff, Arizona, in 1879. From the description of Diary of Commodore Perry Liston, 1878, January-May. (Huntin...

Hayne, Julia Dean 1830-1868

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Mormon Battalion

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Smith, N. R. (Nathan Ryno), 1797-1877

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Smith, Amanda Barnes, 1809-1886

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Mormon pioneer who survived Haun's Mill Massacre in Missouri and helped organize the first Mormon Relief Society and Sunday School in the territory of Utah. From the description of History, 1854-1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122480203 From the guide to the Amanda Barnes Smith history, 1854-1858, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Latter-day Saint Church convert and pioneer. From the description of Autobiographical sketch, and statement, 1866, 1921...

Fielding, Amos 1792-1875

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Spencer, Orson, 1802-1855

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Mormon Church leader and educator. Spencer graduated from the theological college at Hamilton, New York and served as an alderman at Nauvoo, Illinois and as chancellor to the University of Deseret in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was the president of the British Mission and the St. Louis Stake for the Mormon Church. From the description of Letters, 1853-1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435530 From the guide to the Orson Spencer letters, 1853-1855, (L. Tom Perry Special Col...

James, Isaac d.1891

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Layton, Christopher 1821-1898

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Salt Lake Tabernacle

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Young, Emily, 1824-1899

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Kiskadden, Asenath Ann Adams 1848-1916

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Ferguson, James, 1828-1863

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Thatcher, Moses, 1842-1909

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American Mormon and businessman from Salt Lake City, Utah. From the description of Letter, 1894. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 122553298 From the guide to the Moses Thatcher letter, 1894, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived in Logan, Utah. From the description of Diaries, 1866-1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367410179 Moses Thatcher (1842-1909) was a Utah ...

Browne, Charles Farrar 1834-1867

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First Council of the Seventy (1835-1975)

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Taylor, John, 1808-1887

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Mormon businessman in Logan, Utah. From the guide to the Joseph Morrell letters received, 1883-1906, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Mormon genealogist, temple recorder, and member of the Utah Militia. From the guide to the Copies of revelations, 1869-1900, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Report to George Q. Cannon, Brigham Young Jr., and Albert Carrington on claims by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints against the estate of Brigham Yo...

Savage and Ottinger (Photography Studio)

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Neslen, Robert Francis 1832-1912

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Maiben, Henry 1819-1883

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Haight, Hector C. (Hector Caleb), 1810-1879

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Johnson, Aaron, 1806-1877

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Mormon colonizer and soldier. He was elected brigadier general in 1857 and commissioned major general in the Utah Militia in 1866. From the description of Correspondence, 1852-1866. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122702261 From the guide to the Aaron Johnson correspondence, 1852-1866, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Cannon, George Q. (George Quayle), 1827-1901

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Mormon missionary, author, politician and First Counselor of the Mormon Church. From the description of Letter, 1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461544 Latter-day Saint Church apostle. From the description of Letter, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1888 November 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86146508 From the guide to the Letter, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1888, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Utah businessman and an apostle in the Mormon Church...

Smith, Hannah Maria Libby 1828-1906

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Holmes, Jonathan Harriman, -1880

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Mormon shoemaker who served in the "Mormon Battalion" from 1846 to 1847 during the war with Mexico. He was born in 1806 and died in 1880. From the guide to the Jonathan Harriman Holmes diary, 1846-1947, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Jackman, Levi, 1797-1876

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Mormon pioneer. Jackman joined the Mormon Church in 1830 and lived at Nauvoo, Illinois. He worked as a carpenter after settling in Utah in 1847. From the description of Diary, 1847-1849 [electronic resource]. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 51596749 From the description of Diary, 1847-1849. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145434853 Born in Vermont, joined LDS Church in 1831, lived in Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and crossed plains with first Mormon pione...

Jacques, Vienna 1787-1884

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McKenzie, David, 1833-1912.

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Officer of the Nauvoo Legion in Utah; Utah pioneer; Mormon Church leader; employee of the Salt Lake Theatre; and a private secretary to Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church. From the guide to the David McKenzie notebook, 1902-1910, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Mormon pioneer; letter engraver; captain of fifty opposing the United States Army during the 1857-58 "Utah Expedition"; actor-manager of the Salt Lake Theater; private secretary to Brigham Young, ...

Hardy, Leonard Wilford, 1805-1884

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Durkee, Charles 1802-1870

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McKnight, James 1828-1906

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Fitzgerald, Perry, 1815-1889.

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Stout, Hosea, 1810-1889

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Hosea Stout, one of the most prolific Mormon diarists, was born on September 18, 1810, in Mercer County, Kentucky. He attended a Shaker school from 1814-1818 before his family moved to Ohio and later Indiana. While living in Illinois in 1832 Stout heard the preaching of Charles C. Rich and became interested in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1837 he moved to Caldwell County, Missouri, and was baptized into the Mormon Church in 1838. That same year he married Surmantha Pack, s...

Graves, Henry, 1806-1892

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Hyde, Orson, 1805-1878

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Utah pioneer and apostle in the Mormon Church. From the description of Autobiography and funeral, ca. 1842-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699672 Orson Hyde (8 January 1805 - 28 November 1878) was born in Connecticut to Nathan Hyde and Sally Thorpe. He joined the Mormon movement in 1831, serving as an Apostle in the Church from 1835 until his death. He served a mission to Jerusalem from 1840 to 1842 to dedicate the land for the return of the Jews. He was later assign...

Lindsay, John Shanks, 1840-1906.

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Van Cott, John, 1814-1883

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Mormon pioneer and mission president for the Mormon Church in Scandinavia. From the description of John Van Cott diaries, 1852-1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536843 Mormon pioneer, mission president for the Mormon Church in Scandinavia, and polygamist. He lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. From the description of John Van Cott papers, 1838-1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435804 From the guide to the John Van Cott papers, 1838-1913, (L. Tom P...

Hunter, Susanna Wann 1825-1885

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Little, Feramorz, 1820-1887.

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Abel, Elijah, 1810-1884

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Hess, John William 1824-1903

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Bigler, Amy Lorette Chase 1822-1907

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Margetts, Phillip, 1829-1914

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Phillip (Philip) Nephi Margetts was born on February 10, 1829, in Warwickshire, England, where he worked as a mechanic and engine driver. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1841 and traveled to Salt Lake City in 1850. Later that year he joined the Nauvoo Brass Band, whose members organized Utah's first dramatic company, the Deseret Dramatic Association. Margetts, who became one of the Utah's most renowned comedic actors, later formed his own acting company, t...

Lyne, Thomas Ackley 1806-1890

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Holmes, Elvira Annie Cowles 1813-1871

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DeMille, Anna Knight 1804-1878

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Dunbar, William Cameron, 1822-1905.

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Convert to the Mormon Church from Scotland who later served as the president of the French Mission for that faith. From the description of Letter, 1854. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122622983 ...

Salt Lake Temple

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Salt Lake County Courthouse

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Smith, John Henry, 1848-1911

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Member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles and President of the European Mission. From the guide to the MS 5129 John Henry Smith diaries 1874-1911 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Library) Apostle in the Mormon Church. From the description of John Henry Smith letter, 1893. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122494371 From the guide to the John Henry Smith letter, 1893, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Young, Persis Goodall 1806-1894

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Kesler, Frederick, 1816-1899.

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Early Utah pioneer and millwright. From the description of Papers, 1837-1899. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154298309 Frederick Kesler (1816-1899), was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to Abram Clark, a master millwright and builder. When Kesler was 19 he began his own career as a master millwright. He married Emeline Parker in 1836 and both became Mormons in 1840. In the spring of 1851, Kesler and his family migrated to Salt Lake City, U...

Merrill, Clarence 1841-1918

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Gilbert, Abel, 1960-

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Reed, John S. b. 1782

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Proctor, John 1822-1874

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Smith, John, 1781-1854

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Fifth Patriarch of the Latter-day Saint Church. From the description of Patriarchal Blessing of Joseph F. Smith, 1852 June 25. [photocopy]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122494430 From the guide to the Patriarchal Blessing of Joseph F. Smith, 1852, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Patriarch in the Mormon Church. From the description of Patriarchal blessing, 1845. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122322724 From the guide to the George Mumford pa...

Bigler, Jacob G., 1813-1907

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Lived in Nephi; active in LDS Church and in State Legislature; served mission to Ireland and England, 1862-1864. From the description of Life sketch. [microfilm]. (Utah Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122394265 ...

Smith, Bathsheba W. Bigler, 1822-1910

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General President of the Relief Society, 1901-1910. From the description of Papers, 1861-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122645306 Bathsheba W. Bigler Smith (1822-1910) a Mormon pioneer, and a civic and ecclesiastical leader. She served as president of the Relief Society from 1901 to 1910. From the description of Bathsheba W. Bigler Smith Relief Society message, 1903 April 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 460782377 Mormon pioneer. Originally from ...

Smith, Francis Gurney, 1818-1878

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Kendall, George 1819-1891

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Stubbs, Anne Elizabeth Dunn 1840-1922

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Harris, Martin 1838-1913

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Snow, Lorenzo, 1814-1901

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Lorenzo Snow was born 3 April 1814 in Mantua, Ohio. After being baptized a member of the Church, he served a mission in Ohio and the Eastern States. He was ordained to the office of Seventy in 1840. He served as President of the United Order in Brigham City from 1874-1886. He was ordained an apostle in 1849, after which he served missions to England and Europe. He succeeded President Wilford Woodruff, becoming the fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 13 September, 1...

Chase, Ezra 1796-1873

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Smith, Hyrum, 1800-1844

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Letter written by Hyrum Smith and signed for Joseph Smith from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Oliver Granger. Smith writes of a Mr. Devenport from New York who brought a judgement in favor of Boynton & Hyde, and urges Granger to pay the "just" debt. He also writes of the deaths of D.C. Smith and Robert B. Thompson from "quick consumption", mentions Brother Phelps and Hiram Kimball, and describes drought conditions. Smith concludes by writing "this is an Eventful Period...A day of Darkness...what ever ...

Snow, Erastus, 1818-1888.

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Snow became member of Quorum of the Twelve in February 1849. From the guide to the MS 1329 Erastus Snow journals 1835-1851; 1856-1857 (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Church History Library) ...

Young, Joseph, 1797-1881

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Member of the Seven Presidents of the Seventies (1835-1881) for the Mormon Church and brother of the Mormon prophet, Brigham Young (1801-1877). From the description of Letters, 1880. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536038 From the guide to the Joseph Young letters, 1880, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Member of the seven Presidents of the Seventies (1835-1881) for the Mormon Church and brother of the Mormon Prophet Brigham Young. From the descripti...

Coltrin, Mary Mott 1821-1885

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Thompson, James A.

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Martin, Edward photographer 1818-1882

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Horrocks, Peter 1800-1866

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Kimball, Mary Smithies 1837-1880

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MacDonald, Alexander Findley 1825-1903

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Rockwell, Orrin Porter, 1813-1878

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Pratt, Zenos Tanner 1838-1912

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Smith, John L. (John Lyman), 1828-1898

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President of the Swiss and Italian Missions for the Mormon Church and brother of the apostle of the Mormon Church, George Albert Smith. From the description of Letters, a deed, and a patriarchal blessing, 1866-1895. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122550615 President of the Swiss and Italian Mission for the Mormon Church, businessman, church leader, and brother of the apostle of the Mormon Church, George Albert Smith. From the description of Diary, 1855-1893. (Unk...

Coltrin, Zebedee, 1804-1887.

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Zebedee Coltrin was a Patriarch in the LDS Church. From the guide to the Patriarchal blessing given to George Albert Smith, 1884, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Patriarch for the Mormon Church in Springville, Utah. From the description of Patriarchal blessing, 1876. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435788 ...

Kimball, Heber C. (Heber Chase), 1801-1868

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Mormon apostle. From the description of Diaries, 1845-1846. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122630452 From the guide to the Heber Chase Kimball diaries, 1845-1846, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Mormon Church leader and polygynist, who served as first counselor to President Brigham Young. From the description of Letter, 1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122645075 From the description of Letter, 1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 12262253...