Manuscripts

The seed of Joseph Smith, the martyr

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1950.
Call number: mssHM 72845
Creator: Anderson, Mary Audentia Smith (1872-1963)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Zion Bookstore, May 3, 1965.

Lewis C. Bidamon papers

Manuscripts

The majority of the collection is made up of the business and legal papers of Lewis Crum Bidamon (125 pieces, 1837-1889), his brother John C. Bidamon (26 pieces, 1840-1850), and his son Charles E. Bidamon (32 pieces, 1892-1941). Of interest in the collection are the papers of Emma Hale Smith Bidamon and her son Joseph Smith (1832-1914). Joseph Smith was the founder and lifelong President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The correspondence of Charles E. Bidamon contains a series of letters regarding his attempts to sell the Nauvoo House during the period 1905-1909. In this connection he corresponded with Heman Conoman Smith (Historian of the Reorganized Church) and Joseph Fielding Smith (President of the Utah Mormon Church).

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Settlement with the Church for claim against the estate of Brigham Young

Manuscripts

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 great apostasy : considered in the light of scriptural and secular history

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Discusses the apostasy of the primitive church to show that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a restoration of the gospel

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Diary of J.R. Bodham and volume of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [microform] : 1879-1921

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Microfilm of the diary of J.R. Bodham, kept while he was preaching at various schools in Iowa and California between 1879 and 1888. The diary opens when Bodham was living in Iowa and preaching at Shenandoah, Manti, Summit, Mill Creek, and Dutch Hollow. It then traces his mission work in California, including at San Bernardino, San Diego, Azusa, Green Meadows, and Los Angeles. Also included in the diary is a chronology of Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, various notes on John Taylor, a brief family listing for Charlotte Bishop Woods and William Bishop, and various Biblical quotes. The reel also contains two items related to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and its Southern California District. The first is a copy of meeting notes from the Organization of the Eighth Quorum of Teachers, Southern California District at Los Angeles (1908), and the second is a volume of historical records for the Southern California District for 1881-1921, including statements, meeting records, lists of officers, and general history, particularly for the branches at Los Angeles, Laguna Beach, Covina, El Monte, Valley Center, Santa Ana, and Long Beach. The volume also contains some history of the Arizona branch.

MSS MFilm 00405

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Genealogy and memoirs of George Washington Gill Averett

Manuscripts

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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G (1 of 2). 12 letters, 1 I.D. card, and 30 printed materials

Manuscripts

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)

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The seed of Joseph Smith, the martyr

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