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Verda Spencer Adams autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6263
Abstract

The Verda Spencer Adams autobiography is the written account from her experience growing up in the early 20th century in a rural Mormon community until watching her own children grow up.

Dates: 1978-1979

Marva Genevieve Stevens Allen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8819
Scope and Contents

Contains materials pertaining to the life of Marva Genevieve Stevens Allen. Included are her journals, some correspondence with her husband, and digital images of members of her family on DVD discs. Dated circa 1950-2010.

Dates: approximately 1950-2010

Archbishop Alonso decree

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1892
Scope and Contents

Handwritten decree. This item is a decree by the archbishop regarding the marriage of Antonio Davila and Caeitana Davila.

Dates: 1777

Milas Edgar Johnson autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 948
Scope and Contents

Typewritten excerpts of an autobiography. Johnson was born while his parents were migrating to Utah. He lived in numerous places including Fountain Green and Huntington, Utah. He states that he knew Black Hawk, recounts incidents with Ute Indians during the Black Hawk War, served as postmaster in Huntington, and was elected to the Utah state senate. The item was edited by family members who removed some material.

Dates: 1926

Anna Mary Ball Frewin autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 902
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of an autobiography. Frewin was born in England, migrated to Utah in 1881, and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. She writes about Mormon polygamists hiding from federal officials stating, "you couldn't tell whether there was a man or woman coming down the street because the men were dressed in women's clothing with sun bonnets."

Dates: 1959

Niels Fugal autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 903
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography. Fugal writes about his family background, his work as a blacksmith, his Mormon-Church related activities, and many developments in Pleasant Grove.

Dates: 1944

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

Autobiography and poems of George Washington Johnson

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 189
Scope and Contents

Collection includes handwritten autobiography, patriarchal blessings, poems, and letters created by Johnson. Also included is a transcription of those materials by his great-great granddaughter. Materials date 1893 and 2000.

Dates: 1893-2000

Biographical sketch of William Armstrong

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3283
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography of William Armstrong by Coddington. Armstrong was born in 1805 in Scotland, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1853. He worked in Salt Lake City, Utah, but later moved to American Fork, Utah, where he died in 1895.

Dates: approximately 1930

Biography : Ann Adamson Robbins

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2553
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Ann Adamson was born in England in 1841, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1862. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and married James Robbins in 1865. She lived in various towns in Utah, Colorado, and California. She died in 1912.

Dates: approximately 1940

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Social Life and Customs 110
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Fillerup, Charles Richard, 1873-1936 2
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Gray, Fern Armstrong 2
Makin, Irene Armstrong 2
Shelley, Charlotte D. 2
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 2
Utah Expedition (1857-1858) 2
Adams, Verda Spencer, 1900-1994 1
Allen, Marva Genevieve Stevens, 1929-2011 1
American Mothers, Inc. 1
Armstrong, Annie Marie Jensen, 1860-1929 1
Armstrong, James Henry, 1861-1919 1
Armstrong, William, 1805-1895 1
Bailey, Elizabeth Young, 1833-1918 1
Bailey, George B., 1833-1895 1
Beecher, Maureen Ursenbach 1
Bieler, P. S. (Paul Samuel) 1
Birkin, Elizabeth Roland, 1851-1916 1
Birkin, Robert, 1851-1916 1
Bleak, James G. (James Godson), 1829-1918 1
Bowles, Catherine, 1915-2006 1
Boyd (Family : Boyd, John David, 1839-1917) 1
Boyd family 1
Brandley, Louis Orson, 1889-1984 1
Brown, John, active 1958 1
Brown, Mildred 1
Bulkley, Newman, 1817-1893 1
Casper, Russell Reuben, 1940-1991 1
Casper, William Wallace, 1821-1908 1
Christensen family 1
Christiansen, Matildia Stagg 1
Clark, John Haslem, 1842-1923 1
Clark, Therissa Emerett Cox, 1849-1933 1
Coddington, Elizabeth 1
Cole, H. H., active 1846 1
Coleman, Guy E. 1
Cottam (Family : Cottam, Thomas, 1820-1896) 1
Crookston, George, 1843-1926 1
Davey, Mina Orton, 1850-1939 1
Day, Eliza Jane Staker, 1860-1948 1
Dean, Prudence Bourne, 1854-1932 1
Dearborn, Francis P. 1
Dubois family 1
Dubose, Angelina 1
Dunckley, Hannah Dunn, 1848- 1
Dunkley, Joseph Leonard 1
Evans, Beth Martenson, 1922-1983 1
Frewin, Anna Mary Ball, 1873- 1
Frost, Nancy, 1909- 1
Fugal, Niels, 1885- 1
Galbraith family 1
Galbraith, Itha J., 1900-1967 1
Giles, Thomas Huskinson, 1821-1903 1
Greene, George Wise, 1904-1998 1
Greenwood, Jane L. R. (Jane Leah Robinson), 1882-1970 1
Gubler, Nellie McArthur 1
Hadley, Charles Whipple, 1844-1936 1
Hall family 1
Hall, Thomas Wakeman 1
Harmon, Ansil Perse, 1832-1908 1
Harold B. Lee Library 1
Harrington, Leonard E. (Leonard Elsworth), 1816-1883 1
Hellewell, Dave Martin, 1897-1998 1
Hinckley, Edwin Smith, 1868-1929 1
Holmes, Harold Harper, 1911-2001 1
Holmes, Jonathan Harriman, -1880 1
Holmes, Sarah Elizabeth 1
Huggard, Cora Greenwood 1
Hunsaker, Abraham, 1812-1889 1
Hutchings, William Lawrence 1
Isom, Alma 1
Isom, Cleone Smith, 1905- 1
Jack, James 1
Jarvis (Family : Jarvis, George (George Franklin), 1823-1913) 1
Jensen, Naomi Asay Anderson (1898-1987) 1
Jewkes family 1
Jewkes, Joseph H., 1869- 1
Jewkes, Samuel, 1823-1900 1
Johnson, George W. (George Washington), 1823-1900 1
Johnson, Milas Edgar, 1851-1933 1
Johnson, Wanda Whatcott, 1907-1995 1
Jones, Elgin A. (Elgin Alonzo), 1885-1937 1
Jones, Sarah Fletcher, 1874-1966 1
Kartchner, Etta, 1881- 1
Kartchner, William Decatur, 1820-1892 1
Keeler (Family : 1883- : Keeler, Joseph B. (Joseph Brigham), 1855-1935) 1
Keeler, Daniel Mandeville 1
Keeler, Joseph B. (Joseph Brigham), 1855-1935 1
Keeler, Martha Alice Fairbanks, 1860-1938 1
Keeler, Virginia Christensen, 1901-1970 1
Kimball, Jonathan Golden, 1853-1938 1
Kirkham, Francis W. (Francis Washington), 1877-1972 1
Kirkman, Hannah Allen, 1853-1917 1
Larson, May Louise Hunt, 1860-1943 1
Lausen, Mae C. 1
LeFevre, Jesse Holyoak, 1874-1962 1
Lee, Wilford D. (Wilford Deloy), 1898-1983 1
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