Manuscripts

1847-1854 April 13

Description: The bulk of the records consist of account books, passenger lists and receipts documenting Empey's work in England and America as an agent of the Perpetual Emigration Fund (PEF) of the Mormon Church.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1847-1890.
Call number: mssHM 52583-52617
Creator: Empey, William Young (1808-1890)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: There are also letters relating to Empey's service as a missionary in England and to his personal affairs in later life.
Provenance: Purchased from Mrs. Ida Terry Empey, 1945.
Associated people: Richards, Samuel W. (1824-1909.)
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1854 April 24-1890 December 19

Manuscripts

The bulk of the records consist of account books, passenger lists and receipts documenting Empey's work in England and America as an agent of the Perpetual Emigration Fund (PEF) of the Mormon Church.

mssHM 52583-52617

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William Young Empey Papers

Manuscripts

The bulk of the papers consist of account books, passenger lists, and receipts documenting William Young Empey's work in England and America as an agent of the Perpetual Emigration Fund (PEF) of the Mormon Church. There are also letters relating to Empey's service as a missionary in England and to his personal affairs in later life. Among these papers, which concentrate primarily upon the years 1853 and 1854, are lists of PEF passengers on emigrant vessels from Liverpool, bills of landing and receipts for the purchase and shipment of many goods to equip the emigrant parties, and receipts and promissory notes from the emigrants themselves for wagons and teams or supplies purchased for them by the PEF's agent. These various documents illuminate many phases of the emigration process and the Church's careful, business-like organization of all the details. Some notable items include William Empey's incomplete diary account of the pioneer expedition to the Salt Lake Valley and the operation of the North Platte ferry (HM 52586), Empey's account book including accounts kept for the PEF (HM 52587), an 1853 list of Danish Mormons who had provided money for the purchase of cattle, wagons and other material (HM 52599), lists of P. E. Fund passengers on board various ships sailing for the United States in 1854 (HM 52603, 52605-07 and 52610-11), and two letters from Samuel W. Richards to Empey discussing Mormon missionary work in Great Britain and emigration of the Saints to the United States (HM 52593 and 52597).

mssHM 52583-52617

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Harris family history

Manuscripts

This typescript was collected and copied by Austin E. and Alta Fife from a typescript loaned to the Utah Humanities Research Foundation by Charles Martin Harris of Logan, Utah, on June 19, 1946. It covers the Harris family history, including their emigration to the United States, their activities in early America, Martin Harris' involvement with Joseph Smith (1805-1844) and the Mormon Church, and Emer Harris' reading of the first published copy of the Book of Mormon and his subsequent conversion.

mssHM 66588

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William Young Empey diary

Manuscripts

This incomplete manuscript provides a partial glimpse of the experiences of the first Mormon party that traveled to the Great Salt Lake Valley in 1847 under the direction of Brigham Young as well as the operation of the first Mormon ferry on the Upper Crossing of the North Platte River.

mssHM 52586

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Hafen, Mary Ann, 1854 -. Typescript, Grandmother Hafen's Life Story

Manuscripts

This collection consists of typescripts of interviews and diaries collected by Kimball Young (1893-1972) in regard to his research into the Mormon practice of polygamy. The information he gathered was to be used for his book, Isn't one wife enough? (New York : Holt and Co., 1954).

HM 63752

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Biography of James Madison Flake biography

Manuscripts

This typescript is a brief biography of James Madison Flake written by his son Joseph Marion Flake. It contains anecdotes from his life and describes his work for the Mormon Church while living in Snowflake, Arizona and on his mission to England and Scotland

mssHM 66580

1847-1854 April 13

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