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The great apostasy : considered in the light of scriptural and secular history
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
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Manuscripts
Mary Audentia Smith Anderson's study of the descendants of Joseph Smith, rebuking of the belief held by some members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that Smith had no children. Focuses on the split between the LDS Church and Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), the branch of Mormonism followed by many of Smith's descendants. Also includes a detailed genealogy of Smith's family from the 1820s to the 1940s.
mssHM 72845
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Document of a settlement between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the "wives, heirs, and legates" of the Brigham Young estate. Signed by Mary Ann Angell Young, Eliza Roxcy Snow Young, Brigham Young, Jr., Fanny C. Thatcher, Augusta Adams Young, John W. Young, Harriet B. Young, and others.
mssHM 30696
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The first of these diary transcripts covers the years from approximately 1851-1853, with references back to 1844. In it, James Farmer gives a brief description of his family and youth, leading up to his conversion to Mormonism while living in Leicester, England. It emphasizes his mission work with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in England, as well as the religious opposition faced by the LDS Church. The diary also describes his decision to "go home to Zion" (Utah) and his sea voyage from Liverpool to New Orleans.
mssHM 27968 (a + b)
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George Washington Gill Averett (1824-1902) was born in Tennessee and moved to Illinois in 1830. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and followed the Mormons throughout Missouri and Illinois through the 1830s. He traveled overland to Utah in the late 1840s, and spent much of the following decade prospecting for gold in California.
mssHM 31162
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Subjects include: Farewells (LCSH); Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.); Galileo, 1564-1642 (LCSH); Conspiracy theories (LCSH); Green flash (LCSH); Sutton Place (Surrey); Gavin, John (LCSH); Getty, J. Paul (Jean Paul), 1892-1976 (LCSH); Glendora Historical Society (LCSH); Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881 (LCSH); Gossip (LCSH); Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department (LCSH); Glendora (Calif.) (LCSH); Gambling (LCSH); Griffith Observatory (LCSH)
mssSmith, Jack papers