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Box 4B

 Container

Contains 25 Results:

East of Antelope Island, 1943

 File — Box: 4B, Folder: 1
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents Pages 106 and 109 of the history of Kaysville, published by the Davis County company of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.
Dates: 1943

Provo Manufacturing Company, 1880 December 8-1883 January 4

 File — Box: 4B, Folder: 2
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the financial struggles of the Provo Manufacturing Company.
Dates: 1880 December 8-1883 January 4

The Mormon Battalion, 1846 June 30-July 11

 File — Box: 4B, Folder: 3
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents John Taylor's journal entries, briefly introduced by church historian Brigham H. Roberts, documenting the United States Army's petition for assistance in the Mexican-American War; the Mormons' nonaggression agreement with the Pottawattamie Indians; and their encouragement by Taylor, Parley P. Pratt, and Orson Hyde to volunteer for the battalion.
Dates: 1846 June 30-July 11

Church Business--President-in-Exile, 1886 March 17-20

 File — Box: 4B, Folder: 4
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the solvency of Z.C.M.I.; a directive forbidding unauthorized organ performances in the tabernacle; and a report of Utah territorial Gov. Eli Murray's hand in the legal harassment of polygamists.
Dates: 1886 March 17-20

First Year in Salt Lake Valley, 1847 December 3-26

 File — Box: 4B, Folder: 5
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents Excerpts from the Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including documentation of the Mormons' first civil ordinances in the Salt Lake Valley--laws regarding vagrancy, disorderliness, adultery, fornication, robbery, and drunkenness.
Dates: 1847 December 3-26

Journal History, 1848 March 6-April 1

 File — Box: 4B, Folder: 6-7
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents Excerpts from the Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with entries from Winter Quarters and correspondence regarding settlement prospects in California, the Mormon Battalion, general conference, and convert migration.
Dates: 1848 March 6-April 1

Albert King Thurber, 1878 August 15-1887 May 23

 File — Box: 4B, Folder: 8
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents Correspondence from Albert K. Thurber, president of the Sevier Stake, concerning settlers' relationship with Indians, mission calls and priesthood assignments, and the construction of a wagon road through the Henry Mountains; and a sketch of Thurber's life from the Latter Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia by Andrew Jenson.
Dates: 1878 August 15-1887 May 23

Lucinda Lee Dalton, 1884 August 24-1887 January 6

 File — Box: 4B, Folder: 9
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents Letters from Lucinda Lee Dalton, a Beaver, Utah, school teacher and widowed mother of six, concerning her anxiety about premarital sexual relations between her sister and late husband, the eternal fate of her children, and her desire not to marry again; and a letter from missionaries serving among the "Lamanites" asking about "the propriety of brethren of the mission marrying into the Navajo nation."
Dates: 1884 August 24-1887 January 6

Thomas Taylor, 1878 March 18-1886 October 9

 File — Box: 4B, Folder: 10
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents Correspondence from Thomas Taylor, bishop of the Salt Lake Fourteenth Ward and former church migration agent, in which he petitions John Taylor (no relation) for reimbursement of expenses incurred while overseeing migration efforts; a report of his excommunication for homosexuality; his letter to John Taylor pleading for mercy; a sketch of his life and the life of George H. Taylor, who replaced him as Fourteenth Ward bishop, from the Latter Day Saint Biographical...
Dates: 1878 March 18-1886 October 9

Church Business--President, 1880 January 8-1887 May 9

 File — Box: 4B, Folder: 11
Identifier: B
Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning G. W. Thatcher's suggestion to have Karl Maeser replace him as president of Brigham Young College in Logan, and conflicts with various Indian tribes and competition to other sects in their conversion to Christianity; and John Taylor's address to the Wyoming territorial legislature upon its visit to Utah during the church's fiftieth anniversary jubilee.
Dates: 1880 January 8-1887 May 9