Lilla S. Perry journal | Collections | The Huntington

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Mary Almeda Perry Brown memoirs
Manuscripts
Memoirs of Mary Almeda Perry Brown, written in a literary prose style and covering the years from the 1880s to the 1940s. The manuscript contains a vivid and detailed account of her childhood and young adult life, including her travels through the state of Utah, her thwarted attempt at a theatre career, teaching school and working at a boarding house to pay for her college education, and her college experiences. While a great many family anecdotes are included, much of the memoir focuses on Brown's professional career, including teaching at Brigham Young College (1901-1904), working on a teaching mission in Colonia Juarez, Mexico (1904-1906), teaching at the L.D.S. University in Salt Lake City (1906-1908), receiving her master's degree from Columbia University (1912-1915), studying at UC Berkeley (1932-1933), teaching at the Utah State Agricultural College (1926-1947), and serving as Director of Nutrition Research and Acting Dean of the School of Home Economics (1943-1945). She was also an agent with the Box Elder County Commissioners from 1923-1926. She also recounts the tragic history of her marriage to Charles Brown, including his increasingly erratic behavior and financial troubles, which led to their estrangement and his bankruptcy and eventual suicide in 1930. Typewritten manuscript with handwritten annotations. Included with the manuscript are a typed personal record for Mary Almeda Brown and offprints of articles by Brown on nutrition and children's health in Utah (1929-1944).
mssHM 52284
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Biography and certificates for Alonzo Orson Perry
Manuscripts
Collection of items related to Alonzo Orson Perry and Mormon history. Includes a biography of Perry by Almeda Perry Brown, a family history of his wife Ann Janette Stowell Perry (1849-1912), a mission certificate signed by Brigham Young (1876), a certificate of his residence at Mill Ward in the Uintah Stake (1899), a copy of a certificate of his ordination as high priest (1907), Also includes a printed pamphlet of a revelation given through John Taylor relating to George Teasdale and Heber J. Grant and copies of two photographs of Egyptian papyrus reputed to be Joseph Smith's Book of Abraham.
mssHM 74300-74306
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Ledger book and notes of Commodore Perry Liston and Rosaltha Ovilla Liston Empey
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This collection consists of a ledger book kept by Commodore Perry Liston and manuscript notes by Rosaltha Ovilla Liston Empey and Clifford Empey. Inside the ledger book, Liston has recorded baptisms, endowments, and sealings related to the Liston family and has also written a life sketch of himself. It covers his early years as a champion mower on his father's farm to his life in Cedar City and his missionary trips to Arizona and New Mexico. He details various visions he had, including the visions which lead him to take multiple wives, of which he had four. He also talks about mob violence against Mormons and his own personal experience with it.
mssHM 64259-64261
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Margaret Jane Cooper diary
Manuscripts
Cooper's diary begins January 1, 1862 while she was living in Pennsylvania. In March 1862, her husband Adam left for the mining town Lincoln City, Colorado. In 1863, she joined him in Colorado. She talks about Denver and mining some. She specifically talks about Indians possibly attacking Denver and martial law being enacted in February 1865. In 1867, she talks about her family's trip back to Pennsylvania (although it seems they later returned to Colorado). She also talks about Lincoln's assassination and funeral. Throughout the whole diary she talks chiefly about her personal life: visits with family and friends; the weather; church going; etc. The diary ends in April 1873. With the diary are six loose pages of writing by Cooper. These include information about her family and some diary entries. There is also a program for "Centennial Federal Reception" in 1876 as well as a letter by J. F. Lewis, MD, to Adam Cooper, also from 1876.
mssHM 80588
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William Perry Nebeker papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists mostly of the family correspondence of William Perry Nebeker. Much of the correspondence deals with family affairs and the acquiring of provisions, but also covers subjects related to Mormons as a whole. These subjects include politics and the United Order. Of note is a letter from William Clayton and letters regarding the divorce of Frederick Kesler and the imprisonment of George Q. Cannon for polygamy. In the collection Sarah Ivins McKean is represented as both an author and addressee and Theodore McKean as an addressee.
mssHM 63538-63606
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Daniel S. Hayden journal
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The journal covers Hayden's voyage from Maine to California onboard the Brig Siroc, as well as his time living in California. Hayden recorded the voyage to California in detail. Because he had some previous knowledge of nautical science, he was asked by the captain to assist in keeping the ship's official log and records; his own table of longitude and latitude are recorded at the end of the journal. Hayden recorded in detail the everyday activities of everyone on board including his duties to care for the pigs and chickens on board, and the passengers' attempts to catch various sea animals such as porpoises, dolphins, and sharks. After he arrived in San Francisco, Hayden briefly tried his hand at mining, but his main pursuit is to sell the lumber he had brought along with him on the ship. Hayden also talked about the activities of the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco, and provided details about mining methods, tools and equipment. Hayden also gave descriptions of the places he visits including Rio de Janeiro, and Coloma, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Stockton, California.
mssHM 65753