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Adoption record from Manti Temple
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1937
Scope and Contents
Handwritten temple record. The item verifies that four women were adopted by proxy as daughters of the Mormon Apostle, Daniel H. Wells, and his wife, Eliza Wells. The four women were from the Lee family and died between 1847 and 1859.
Dates:
1901
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Myrtle K. Aiu personal history
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1102
Scope and Contents
Contains a 10-page typed autobiography of Myrtle K. Aiu detailing her conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some of her memorable spiritual experiences, including a trip to Hong Kong in 1969. Includes a typed postscript and envelope. Myrtle refers to this work as her "personal history." Materials dated 1978.
Dates:
1978
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Andrew Jackson Allen autobiography and diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3213
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript of an autobiography and diary. Allen writes about his youth in Kentucky and move to Missouri after he joined the Mormon Church. He later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and joined the Mormon exodus to Utah in 1847. He tells about the hardships of early settlement in Salt Lake City, Utah. His diary starts in 1857. It has many gaps and entries were often months apart. He writes about the "Utah War;" his work on the railroad in 1868 and 1869; his...
Dates:
1857-1884
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Barbara Stewart Anderson collection on Raymond R. and Ava Beckstrand Stewart
Collection
Identifier: MSS 8176
Scope and Contents
Collection contains scrapbooks, journals, biographical works, and other materials collected by Anderson about her parents, Raymond R. and Ava Beckstrand Stewart. Includes information about the Stewart family, her parents' service as Mormon missionaries in England, and the development and operation of Timp Haven Lodge. Materials date from between 1928 and 2011. Also contains family scrapbooks of her grandparents Scott Pease Stewart, Myrtle Maiben, Heber William Beckstrand, and Mary Elizabeth...
Dates:
1928-2011
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Richard B. Anderson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8430
Content Description
Collection contains correspondence between Anderson and his parents as well as other family members. Other letters included are from various family members to other family members and document their lives at the time including school, work, family life, and missions. Also included are newspaper clippings and articles particularly related to Richard's parents (H. Duane and Leola Seely Anderson) and their service as mission president and matron in the French Mission, and a diary kept by his...
Dates:
1918-1991
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Autobiographies of Alma W. King and Lucille Olson King
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2991
Scope and Contents
Autobiography of Alma King contains memories of his childhood near Garland, Utah; church service, including a Latter-day Saint Mission to the Hawaiian Islands, 1923-1926; attendance at BYU, 1926-1930 and 1933-1936, and the University of Chicago, 1939-1940; teaching LDS seminary at Bear River High School, 1930-1956; marriage; travels; and employment in the Dean of Students office at BYU, 1956-1972. Autobiography of Lucille King contains memories of her childhood in Provo, Utah; attendance at...
Dates:
1999
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Young and Seymour B. Young papers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 513
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography and an account of Joseph Young's death and funeral by his son, Seymour B. Young. Joseph writes about his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and comments on various doctrines of that faith.
Dates:
approximately 1881
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Autobiography and biography of Thomas Jarvis Yates
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6831
Abstract
A photocopy of a family history and autograph book of Thomas Jarvis Yates and his descendants, 1987.
Dates:
1989
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
George Washington Bean journal
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 3860
Scope and Contents
Journal contains entries by George Washington Bean from about 1855 to 1878 and includes a short autobiography, transaction records from his business dealings, and personal and family experiences.
Dates:
approximately 1855-1878
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographies of ancestors
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 53
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biographies of ancestors of Rawlinson which relate life in numerous Utah communities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included is an excerpt from the 1857 diary of James Farmer.
Dates:
approximately 1962
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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