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A biography of Alexander Williams

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 459
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography. The year of the composition of the item is unknown. Kimball writes that Williams was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1847, had encounters with the Ute Indians, lived as a polygamist, and converted to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Dates: 1950

Biography of Mary Elizabeth Coursey Hoover : pioneer, came to Utah in 1849

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2507
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography. The item was originally presented to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers meeting in 1925. Mary's father joined the Mormon Church and moved his family to Nauvoo, Illinois and later to Utah. Mary married John Witmer Hoover in 1855, had twelve children, and spent most of her adult life in Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1925

Biography of Mary Ann Brown Clark

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 454
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of Mary Ann Brown Clark (1859-1962). Mrs. Dixon writes about Mary Clark, who died at the age of 103 and was thought to have been the oldest woman in Utah at that time. Mrs. Dixon relates the experiences of Mary Clark while she was living in Pleasant Grove, Panguitch, St. George, and Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1962

Daughters of Utah Pioneers records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1788
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clipping of pioneer monuments, scrapbooks, biographies, histories of various industries, lists of officers and members, and meeting programs. The materials relate to the operation of the organization primarily in Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1911-1937

Duke family biographies

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 569
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographical sketch of Jonathan O. Duke, prepared by Ruby Duke Stringham, which tells (mainly through excerpts from his journal) of the Mormon expulsion from Nauvoo, Illinois; residence in Iowa; immigration to Utah; life in Provo, Utah; and participation in the Echo Canyon War. Also includes two unsigned handwritten sketches: One of Jonathan Duke and one of his son, Robert S. Duke.

Dates: undated

The funeral services of John W. Hoover

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2508
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of the funeral services for John Whitmer Hoover on 29 May 1902. Among the speakers was the Mormon Apostle, Reed Smoot. Among the other speakers were John Edge Booth, Myron Tanner, and David John. Hoover's father joined the Mormon Church and moved his family to Nauvoo, Illinois in 1842 and later to Utah. John Hoover was a miller who married Mary Coursey in 1855 and lived in Springville, Utah. He moved to Provo, Utah in 1861. Also included is a biography of Hoover.

Dates: approximately 1902-1925

Biography : Hannah Astill Goddard

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2601
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed biography. Hannah Astill was born in 1823 in England. She married Henry Goddard in 1847, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850, and migrated to Utah in 1855. She lived in Provo, Utah, and died in 1888.

Dates: 1944

Biography : Henry Goddard

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2600
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Goddard was born in 1821 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850, and migrated to Utah in 1855. He lived in Provo, Utah, and died in 1901.

Dates: 1944

Edwin Smith Hinckley papers

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 352
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, speeches, reports, and biographies. These materials relate to Hinckley's work at Brigham Young University as a faculty member and on the Alumni Association Board of Directors, as superintendent of the Utah State Industrial School, and as secretary of the Provo Chamber of Commerce. The biographies are eulogies given by Hinckley's friends and associates.

Dates: 1892-1962

J. M. Jensen biography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1474
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten funeral address about Lars Echert Eggertsen. Jensen talks of Eggertsen's upbringing, his education, his position in the Provo City schools, and his ecclesiastical standing in the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1930

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Brigham Young University 4
Aydelotte, Hannah 2
Dusenberry, Warren N. (Warren Newton), 1836-1915 2
Booth, John Edge, 1847-1920 1
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Manavu Ward (Provo, Utah) 1
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Clark, Mary Ann Brown 1
Cutler, Thomas R. 1
Dalley, Julius Wolley 1
Daughters of Utah Pioneers 1
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company 1
Dixon, Cecil, Mrs. 1
Duke family 1
Duke, Jonathan Oldham, 1807-1868 1
Duke, Robert S. (Robert Stone), 1837-1923 1
Eggertsen, Lars, 1866-1927 1
Ewing, Samuel Porter 1
Goddard, Hannah Astill 1
Goddard, Henry 1
Harmon, Joyce Kling 1
Hinckley, Edwin Smith, 1868-1929 1
Holdaway, Shadrack 1
Hoover, John Whitmer, 1834-1902 1
Hoover, Mary Elizabeth Coursey 1
Jensen, J. Marinus (Jens Marinus), 1868-1946 1
John, David, 1833-1908 1
Johnson, Caroline Maria 1
Jones, Albert Stephen, 1871-1962 1
Jones, Albert, 1839-1925 1
Jones, Julia, 1847-1924 1
Jones, Lydia Elizabeth, 1837-1874 1
Jones, Samuel Stephen, 1837-1923 1
Jones, Samuel, 1783-1858 1
Jones, Sarah, 1801-1867 1
Kay, Charlotte Ewing 1
Kimball, Croxier, 1879-1966 1
LeFevre, Jesse Holyoak, 1874-1962 1
Lott, Elsie Moore 1
Merrill, Albert 1
Merrill, Clarance 1
Moore, Eleanor Roseltha Colton 1
Moore, Stephen Bliss, 1836-1894 1
Newren, Clothield Young 1
Nuttall, L. John (Leonard John), 1834-1905 1
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1
Rollins, J. Barton 1
Smith, Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding), 1838-1918 1
Smoot, A. O. (Abraham Owen), 1815-1895 1
Smoot, Diana E., (Diana Eldredge), 1837-1914 1
Smoot, Margaret T. (Margaret Thompson), 1809-1884 1
Smoot, Reed, 1862-1941 1
Tanner, Myron, 1826-1903 1
Taylor, Maria D. (Maria Dixon), 1872-1947 1
United States. Army. Mormon Battalion 1
Utah Expedition (1857-1858) 1
Walton family 1
Walton, Emma Jacques, 1857-1933 1
Walton, Joseph B. (Joseph Benjamin), 1855-1935 1
Weight, Jesse Johnson, 1892-1970 1
Williams, Alexander, 1803-1876 1
Woolley, Edwin Dilworth, Jr., 1846-1920 1
Woolley, Flora Snow, 1856-1946 1
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 1
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