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Russel Benson Backus collection on Albert Galliton Earl and Elvira Egbert Carson

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8921
Scope and Contents Contains biographical materials on Russel Benson Backus' ancestors, Albert Galliton Earl and Elvira Egbert Carson. Carson's autobiography covers 1821-1898 and discusses her life as a Mormon pioneer. Earl's biography, written by his daughter Elizabeth Elvira Earl Cordner, covers 1846-1909 and discusses his experiences in the Civil War and as a businessman in Utah. The collection includes original documents as well as photocopies, and both biographies are available on DVD. Materials dated...
Dates: 1865-2016

Mervyn Sharp Bennion

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2138
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of Mervyn Bennion. Mervyn was born and raised in Vernon, Utah, attended the U.S. Naval Academy, and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He was the Captain on board the U.S.S. West Virginiaat Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He was killed in the attack.

Dates: circa 1960

Biography and memorabilia of Robert Mylchrist Cannon

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 943
Scope and Contents

This collecion consists of 4 biographies, 2 resumes, awards, letters, magazine articles, and photocopied newspaper photos and articles referring to Cannon.

Dates: 1945-1976

Hugh W. Colton papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8024
Scope and Contents Contains research materials used by Lee Roderick in his biography of Hugh W. Colton. The collection mainly consists of photocopied newspaper clippings and family history books, but there are also some photographs and ephemera. The photocopied newspaper clippings are typically about Hugh W. Colton and his business ventures with J. Willard Marriott, his experiences in World War II, and his professional life as a county lawyer and rancher in Vernal Utah. Also included in the collection are...
Dates: 1885-2006

"Coming home" to Homecoming

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 3294
Scope and Contents

This manuscript was written by Nalani Young Wight and Karla C. Erikson and details some of the experiences of Kay Young. It contains accounts of his experiences in World War II through journal entries, as well as his experiences at Brigham Young University where he served as Student Body President in 1946.

Dates: 1946

Eliza Jane Staker Day autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 492
Scope and Contents

Typescripts of autobiographical materials. Day writes about her early life in Mt. Pleasant, about the defenses in the town during the Black Hawk War, and about her family. Also included is a biography by Day of her mother, Eliza Cusworth Burton Staker, who was a pioneer and an early settler in Mt. Pleasant.

Dates: 1842-1843

Robert H. Hinkley Jr. papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9190
Scope and Contents Photographs and slides of Hong Kong and Taiwan taken by Robert H. Hinkley, Jr. while serving in the United States Air Force. Photographs are mainly of street scenes. Includes photographs with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as Hinkley joined the Church while stationed in Taiwan. Slides are in color and photographs are both black and white and color. Many of the photographs have information written on the back. Dated 1955 to 1957. Also includes a typescript of a...
Dates: 1955-1957

Lafayette Frost letter and biography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 956
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten letter and a handwritten biography. The date of the biography is uncertain. The letter was written by Frost while serving in the Mexican War with the Mormon Battalion when he was in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Frost writes about the scenery along the line of march, his duties, a change in leadership, and about his illness.

Dates: 1846-1860

The life sketch of David Pinkney Rainey

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1063
Scope and Contents

Biography of David Pinkney Rainey (1815-1888) by an unknown author. Rainey was baptised into the Mormon Church in 1843. He served on two missions for that church and was in the "Mormon Battalion" (1846-1847) during the war with Mexico. He came to Utah and lived in Provo and Richmond in that state.

Dates: approximately 1925-1950

Loyal, no matter what : Jim and Kimiko Tazoi

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8596
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a booklet called Loyal, No Matter What: Jim and Kimiko Yagi Tazoi. The booklet describes Jim's experiences serving as a Japanese American in Europe during WWII and Kimiko's experiences in a Japanese internment camp in Arizona. Dated 2006.

Dates: 2006

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United States. Army. Mormon Battalion 5
Backus, Russel Benson 1
Bennion, Howard S. (Howard Sharp), 1889-1971 1
Bennion, Mervyn Sharp, 1887-1941 1
Brigham Young University 1