Scope and Contents The Daughters of the Utah Pioneer Collection contains materials pertaining to the companies andcamps with in the Weber County area of Utah. The Daughters of the Utah Pioneer’s or DUP wasorganized in 1901 in Salt Lake City, Utah to preserve the history of the men, women andchildren who were the original pioneer settlers of Utah Territory. Each member of the DUP hasto prove their ancestry to an original pioneer of Utah. This collection contains...

Abstract The David Eccles Papers contain diverse documentation recording the life of David Eccles. Among the types of documents are correspondence, miscellaneous business records, account books, day books, biographical and genealogical materials, newspaper clippings and a trial transcript of the Eccles-Geddes trial. The time frame runs from 1861 with a census of Scotland, until approximately 1929 when David Eccles son, Royal began to obtain both written...

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Ogden Stake birthday invitation and program for David O. McKay, September 8,

1939. At this time, McKay was fifty-six years of age and served as Second Counselor to Heber J.

Grant, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Included is a poem on the

back of the program by Mary A. Schaer, “President David O. McKay.

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Ogden City Junction, Ogden, Utah newspaper articles on the deaths of Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints presidents Brigham Young and John Taylor. Brigham Young died

August 29, 1877, and John Taylor died July 25, 1887. Newspaper articles are dated August 30,

1877 and July 27, 1887. In oversize manuscript drawer.

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This collection contains the diary of Henry Nelson from 1904-1905. During this time, Nelson was serving a LDS mission in Germany. He covers his time in Germany , England , and the steamship trip back to the United States. He included ticket stubs, play bills, and newspaper articles that he collected during this time. See MS 163 for the Fred Kotter Missionary Letters who also was serving in Germany during the same time.

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This collection contains a 700 page listing of dissertations written on the subjects of Mormons, Mormonism, and Utah completed by 1986. The collection is not in alphabetical order.

Scope and Contents The Don Benscheider Collection contains the diaries and writings of Don Benscheider startingwith his diary for the mission he served for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in1966 and his subsequent diaries and writings up to his death in 2007. The diaries give an intimatelook into the life of a gay man and his struggles with his family and church, and later with HIV,AIDS, and the agony of losing friends to the disease while being a...

Arrangement There are ten series in the collection including: Series 1, Brigham Young Correspondence, 1853-1870; Series 2, Brigham Young Journals and Biographical Information, 1832-1862; Series 3, Historian’s Office Journal, 1858-1966; Series 4, Correspondences, 1852-1871; Series 5, Newspapers, circa 1850-1860; Series 6, Indians and Office of Indian Affairs, 1849-1937; Series 7, Individuals’ Biographical Information, circa 1841-1967; Series 8 Military and Camp Floyd, undated; Series 9, Mormons and...