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Biographical sketch of Mrs. Christina Kelly

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3310
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography of Christina Kelly. Christina Peterson Kelly was born in Denmark in 1837, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1853 and 1854. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and married William Kelly in 1856. She died in 1914.

Dates: approximately 1930

Biographical sketch of Mrs. Emma Grace Austin

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3284
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: approximately 1930

Biographical sketch of the life of Elizabeth Cunningham Kelley

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3312
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. "Dates and historical events arranged and collected by Olive Dunn Binnall, a Grand-daughter---October 6, 1930." Kelley was born in Scotland in 1843, came to the United States in 1856, and migrated to Utah with the Willie handcart company. Kelly suffered many hardships before the company reached Salt Lake City, Utah. She died in 1922.

Dates: 1930

Biographical sketch of the life of Jacob Christensen and family

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 75
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography which contains incidents of Christensen's early life, his conversion to Mormonism, and his emigration from Denmark to Mt. Pleasant, Utah. It also describes his three wives. There is also material on the family of his third wife.

Dates: approximately 1900s

Biographical sketch of the life of Luman Andros Shurtliff

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 88
Scope and Contents

Typewritten condensation of the original journal of Shurtliff, a businessman, politial and religious leader, Mormon missionary and patriarch, which tells of his early life in Ohio, religious revivals, conversion to Mormonism, marriages, missionary work, mobs in Far West, Missouri, expulsion from Nauvoo, Illinois, immigration to Utah, life in Weber County, Utah, and military preparations against Johnston's Army.

Dates: 1936

Biographical sketch of the life of John Gibbs Smith

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 9004
Scope and Contents

Contains a biographical sketch of John Gibbs Smith by his brother Ralph Gibbs Smith, including his family's ranch in Hoytsville and his career as a police officer, both in Provo and Salt Lake City. Dated approximately 1948.

Dates: approximately 1948

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

Biographical sketches and genealogy records

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 44
Scope and Contents

Brief typewritten history by Florence Lemmon Birmingham of Washington Lemmon which tells of his birth in Kentucky, his baptism, emigration west, and settlement in Millcreek, Utah. Also includes information concerning the lives of James Lemmon and his father, Robert Lemmon, and their involvement in the American Revolution. Also included is a Latter-day Saint Church family group sheet of Washington Lemmon and a letter of transfer from Mrs. Richard Lemmon.

Dates: approximately 1900-1976

Biographical sketches of ancestors

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 71
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of John Bookbinder Kelly which gives an account of his conversion to Mormonism, his emigration from England with his wife, Helena Quirk, and the creation of the Kelly Company, later know as the Kelly Book Bindery. Also includes a brief biographical sketch of Helena Quirk.

Dates: approximately 1900-1976

Biographical sketches of BYU Music Department faculty

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: UA 305
Scope and Contents

Contains brief biographical sketches of Gustav Buggert, Don L. Earl, George W. Fitzroy, Joseph Keeler, Lawrence Sardoni, John Wakefield, Franklin Madsen, and Gerrit de Jong.

Dates: date of production not identified

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