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Biographical sketches of Joseph Ellison Beck

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 396
Scope and Contents

Two typewritten histories of Joseph Beck, a Mormon pioneer and leader, written by Allen L. Beck and Eva Pearl Elder Beck.

Dates: 1966

Biographies

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1592
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typewritten biographies of Henry Bailey Jacobs and Zina Diantha Huntington Young, along with photocopies of typed and handwritten letters. The items, which relate to family matters and marriage relationships, include a letter from the LDS Historical Department regarding the marriages of Zina to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and a letter from the U.S. Customs Court in New York denying the existence of any records relating to a divorce between Henry and Zina.

Dates: 1844-1976

Biographies

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 184
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographies and an autobiography. The items relate incidents in the lives of various family members. The autobiography is by Tamma Durfee Miner who writes about her conversion to the Mormon Church; experiences as a Mormon in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois; migration to Utah; and settling in Springville, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1880-1950

Biographies and autobiographies of the descendants of Ezra T. Clark

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2238
Abstract

The Ezra T. Clark Collection is a family history collection comprising autobiographies, biographies written by family members, oral histories, personal journals (mostly Mormon mission writings), memoirs, interviews, funeral programs, and assorted printed and manuscript ephemera. These records have been created or copied and placed into individual booklets. Each booklet focuses on one individual.

Dates: approximately 1966-1997

Flora J. Jensen biographies and histories of Huntington, Utah

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 959
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typewritten and handwritten biographies and histories. The biographies were usually written by descendants of the subjects. The materials are about Mormons in Hungtington, Utah, and aspects of life in that town.

Dates: 1947-1970

Biographies and histories of Lewiston, Utah

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1577
Dates: 1881-1976

Biographies of Beesley family

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 853
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a letter to LeGrand Baker, an archivist at BYU, briefly discussing the ancestors of Mrs. Fifield, biographies of Frederick Beesley and his wife Elizabeth Ellen Solomon Beesley, and a short history of the Beesley Music Co.Frederick Beesley was a musician who conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, an accountant, a shoemaker, one of the founders (along with his father) of the Beesley Music Co., and the secretary/treasurer of the Salt Lake Philharmonic...
Dates: 1975

Biographies of Esmeralda Andrus Mckell

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2000
Scope and Contents

Typewritten and photocopied biography and autobiography. Stone gives an account of her life and that of her mother, Esmeralda Andrus Mckell (1865-1926). She emphasizes her and her mother's family background, childhoods, and educational experiences. Stone includes some poems by various authors and places all of the information within the interpretative framework of Mormon theology.

Dates: 1945

Biographies of Farnes family

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8251
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of biographies and remembrances of Farnes family members. There are pages missing from the stories. Materials date from between approximately 1945 and 1975.

Dates: approximately 1945-1975

Biographies of Isabel Siddoway and Francis Armstrong

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1612
Scope and Contents

One book containing 15 photographs, 2 biographies of Francis Armstrong, 2 life sketches of Isabel Siddoway Armstrong, 13 genealogy sheets, and miscellaneous items. The Armstrong biographies describe the lives of Mormon pioneers.

Dates: 1929-1979

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Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- History 32
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Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 13
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Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 9
Allison, Helen Taylor 7
James G. Willie Emigrating Company 7
Clayson, Ruby Thornton Brown, 1889-1976 6
Maeser, Karl G. 6
Tanner, George S. 6
Buckwalter, Eliza W. 5
Okey, Cynthia Adams 5
Seastrand, Myrtle R. 5
Clark, Sadie Ollerton, 1901-1992 4
Jensen, Naomi Asay Anderson (1898-1987) 4
Mott, Albert S. 4
Smoot, A. O. (Abraham Owen), 1815-1895 4
Utah Expedition (1857-1858) 4
Wanless, Venina H. 4
Wright, June S. 4
Alston, Louisa Grant 3
Aydelotte, Hannah 3
Beck, Alice Forbes Crosby 3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Southern States Mission 3
Durrant, Ella E., 1893-1963 3
Dusenberry, Warren N. (Warren Newton), 1836-1915 3
Elliott, Norma Larson, 1916-2009 3
Greenwood, Jane L. R. (Jane Leah Robinson), 1882-1970 3
Jensen family 3
Keeler, Joseph B. (Joseph Brigham), 1855-1935 3
Larson, May Louise Hunt, 1860-1943 3
Lund, Nora 3
Martindale, William Addington, 1814-1873 3
Miller, Ellen Anderson, 1833-1929 3
Miller, Niels Peter, 1837-1921 3
Ottosen, Annie Miller, 1837-1921 3
Smith, Emma Hale 3
St. George Temple (Saint George, Utah) 3
Able, Mary E. S. 2
Adams family 2
Allred, James, 1784-1876 2
Armstrong family 2
Armstrong, Francis, 1839-1899 2
Bateman family 2
Bradford family 2
Brewerton, Dorothy, 1934- 2
Brigham Young University. Alumni Association 2
Brimhall, George H. (George Henry), 1853-1932 2
Call, Anson Vasco, 1834-1867 2
Cannon, Donald Q., 1936- 2
Christensen family 2
Christensen, C. C. A. (Carl Christian Anton), 1831-1912 2
Clark, John Haslem, 1842-1923 2
Clark, Therissa Emerett Cox, 1849-1933 2
Cox, Cordelia Morley, 1823- 2
Dalton, Luella Adams 2
Dansie, Charlotte Rudland, 1829-1862 2
Deakin, Maud Householder 2
Dean, Amy Dickerson 2
Durham, Thomas, 1828-1909 2
Durrant, Jemima Berry Henson, 1836-1904 2
Durrant, Kezia Keys 2
Dusenberry, Ida Smoot, 1873-1955 2
Earl, Lizzie Conder 2
Eldredge, Frederick Elnathan, 1869-1959 2
Evans, Laura Robinson 2
Fairbanks, Avard T. (Avard Tennyson), 1897-1987 2
Fairbanks, Eugene F. 2
Gorwill, Carolyn 2
Grant, Heber J. (Heber Jeddy), 1856-1945 2
Gray, Fern Armstrong 2
Greenwood, Ann Crystal 2
Gregg family 2
Hall, Alfred Lorenzo, 1858-1934 2
Hall, John Charles, 1821-1890 2
Hall, Keziah DeGrey, 1837-1905 2
Hancock family 2
Hansen family 2
Hansen, Ann Chipman 2
Hansen, Mary Ann Chipman 2
Hansen, Zella 2
Henrie family 2
Henrie, Myra Mayall 2
Hinckley, Edwin Smith, 1868-1929 2
Hunt, Jefferson, 1804-1879 2
Hyde, Orson, 1805-1878 2
Iverson, Haydee Jackson 2
Jackson, Ellen Wright, 1836-1904 2
Jensen, Flora J. 2
Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941 2
Jessee, Adah Phillips 2
Johnson, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1905 2
Johnson, Cleo Grigg, 1905- 2
Johnson, Lamont 2
Jones, Lavon B. (Lavon Bradford), 1914-2008 2
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