Charles Lambert journals [typescripts]

Collection

Identifier: MS 0094

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Charles Lambert journals (1863-1909) were kept by Charles Lambert (1816-1892), a native of Yorkshire, England, and convert to the LDS Church. The collection includes seven typescript volumes detailing Lambert's profession as a stone-cutter. He records daily activities, marriages, births, and deaths. His wife, Mary Alice Cannon Lambert, made entries in the journals after Lambert's death in 1892. She continued the entries until 1909.

Dates

1863-1909

Creator

Lambert, Charles, 1816-1892 (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Biographical Sketch

Charles Lambert was born in Kirk Deighton, York, Yorkshire, England on 30 August 1816. He became a stone-cutter and began working on various railways at age nineteen. In 1843, he converted to the LDS Church and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844. He married Mary Alice Cannon that same year. He met Joseph and Hyrum Smith, worked on the Nauvoo temple, moved to Missouri, then to Salt Lake City. He was president of the 23rd quorom of Seventy and served as clerk in the Seventh Ward for many years. He died in 1892.

Extent

1 Box (0.5 linear feet)

Additional Description

Abstract

The Charles Lambert journals [typescripts] (1863-1909) were kept by Charles Lambert (1816-1892), a native of Yorkshire, England, and convert to the LDS Church.