Collection, 1762-1982.

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Collection, 1762-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78967788

Extensive journals, correspondence, scrapbooks, maps, photographs, and legal documents. Includes significant information on politics in the early American republic; Philadelphia history; the extended Kane family and their connections to various national and state figures; Thomas's long-term relationship with the Mormons, especially Brigham Young and George Q. Cannon; Elizabeth W. Kane, Thomas's wife; the American Civil War; the American westward movement; Native Americans; Salt Lake City, St. George, and other Utah communities; Mexico; Washington, D.C.; Winter Quarters, Nebraska; Kanesville, Iowa; England; France; Jamaica; and Kane, Pennsylvania. Includes correspondence with numerous individuals (see added author tracings in this catalog record for partial list).

79 boxes (73 lin. ft.)

Harold B. Lee Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8223093

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Kane, Thomas L. (Thomas Leiper), 1822-1883

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Thomas Leiper Kane was a law clerk and Army officer. From the description of Thomas Leiper Kane papers, 1846-1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387534 In 1852, Thomas Kane traveled to the West Indies to improve his health and to study the effects of the emacipation of slaves there. This pocket diary contains his observatioins in both writing and sketches. In July 1859, Kane asked Brigham Young to give information to the US Attorney General J. Black, an account of his ac...

Kane, Elizabeth Wood, 1836-1909

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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...

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 ...

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...