BYU Library - Special Collections

Photocopy of a micrifilm copy of a typewritten biography. Gudmundsen writes about Emma Grace Austin. Emma Grace was born in 1827 in England. She married John Austin in 1848 and was the mother of 17 children. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Emma migrated to Utah in 1868 and settled in Lehi, Utah, and died in 1893.

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Rose Hannah Francis Grant was born in England in 1859. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1871. She married William Grant in 1875 and lived for a time in Lehi, Utah.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Joseph Dorton was born in 1821 in England. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1857 with the Evans' Handcart Company. He moved to Lehi and married Martha Clayton in 1858. He soon moved to Cedar Valley, Utah. He helped treat the Indian Chief, Black Hawk, when he was injured. Dorton died in 1898.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Martha Clayton was born in England in 1837, and her family soon joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1855 and later lived in Lehi. She married Joseph Dorton in 1857 and lived with him in Cedar Valley, Utah. She died in 1923.

Photocopy of a typescript of the biography of Catherine Karren Hatch, Mormon pioneer and plural wife of Lorenzo Hill Hatch.

Includes biographical and genalogical material about George Kirkham and his family, some excerpts from his journals (photocopies and typescripts) including his Latter-day Saint Church missionary journal while he was in England, 1888, drawings and poems by Kirkham, and correspondence, newspaper clippings and memorabilia from the scrapbook of Sarah Russon Kirkham pertaining to her husband, children and herself.

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Eliza Maria Howes Trane was born in 1849 in England and her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1853 and settled in Lehi in 1854. She married Thomas F. Trane in 1869 and had 8 sons and daughters. The title page states, "By Jean Chipman," but the last page of the document lists Bertha N. Sagar as the author.

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Thomas Trane was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived in Utah. He was born in 1846 and died in 1921.

The collection includes a sketch of White's life and comments about his parents.