Abstract The Dame-McBride family papers (1825-1978) consist of short biographies of family members, family diaries, family and church correspondence, and additional papers of the Dame and McBride families. Included are heirloom letters, journals, autobiographical notes, certificates, news clippings, and other documents. The diaries contain records of frontier and ocean crossings, early LDS Church missionary experiences, and the spiritual testimony of these converts to the LDS Church. Insight into the...

Abstract The Ronald and Ilene Kingsbury papers (1832-1995) consist of materials focusing on Utah and the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), as well as family history.

Abstract The Nathan Tanner speech transcript was given by Tanner, in 1895. The speech relates the story of Tanner's conversion and baptism into the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints (LDS) in New York, at the age of sixteen. He describes the mob persecutions of the Mormons at Kirtland, Ohio, and Far West, Missouri.