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Biographical sketches of Emma King, Eliza F. Welsh, George T. Baker and William Kershaw
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3345
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of typewritten biographies. Emma J. King's obituary states that she lived for many years in American Fork, Utah, and died at the home of her daughter. Eliza Faulkner Walsh's obituary states that she died at age 86. She was born in Nova Scotia and lived in American Fork, Utah. George T. Baker's obituary states that he was born in 1847, died at age 80 in 1927, and lived in American Fork, Utah. William Kershaw's obituary states that he was born in 1849 and...
Dates:
1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographical sketches of James Enoch Randall and his wife, Isabella Chadwick Randall
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2242
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of a typescript. The item is a dual biography of a James Enoch Randall (1864-1951) and Isabella Chadwick Randall (1867-1934). They were Mormon farmers in Ogden, Utah who raised ten children.
Dates:
1963
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographical sketches of Samuel Whitney Richards
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 93
Scope and Contents
Three typewritten biographical sketches of Richards containing information on his baptism, missionary labors, political offices, and marriages. One incident as President of the British Mission is included as reported in the Deseret News.
Dates:
approximately 1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographies and histories of Lewiston, Utah
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1577
Dates:
1881-1976
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographies of ancestors
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 53
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biographies of ancestors of Rawlinson which relate life in numerous Utah communities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included is an excerpt from the 1857 diary of James Farmer.
Dates:
approximately 1962
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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