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William Waddoups biography and meeting record book

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 4084
Scope and Contents

Materials include a thirty-two page booklet containing a typed biography of William Waddoups, a biography of his wife Elizabeth, and speeches, prayers and songs from William Waddoups’ funeral. Also includes a red hardback meeting record book used when Waddoups made visits to several wards near Lewiston, Utah, likely while serving as a counselor in the Benson Stake Presidency. Dated 1909-1931.

Transcriptions of both items are also included.

Dates: 1909-1931

A travelling ministry : the journals and letters of Thomas Owen King Jr., Latter-day Saint missionary, 1860-1864 / Dorothy Brewerton, Carolyn Gorwill and Leonard Reed

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7677
Scope and Contents

Biography of Thomas Owen King, Jr., including letters, journal entries, and photographs. The compiled book documents his experiences as a Mormon missionary in England from 1860 to 1864, and his time as a pony express rider and rancher in Almo, Idaho.

Dates: 2010 June

The songstress of Dernford Dale : the life of poetess, diarist and Latter-day Saint pioneer Hannah Tapfield King / Dorothy Brewerton, Carolyn Gorwill and Leonard Reed

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8020
Scope and Contents

Contains one biography, written by Dorothy Brewerton, Carolyn Gorwill, and Leonard Reed in 2011, about Hannah Tapfield King. The biography contains transcriptions of her journals, her writings, and some of her autobiographical sketches. The biography describes her life in England and her journey to Utah as a pioneer. There is also some information about her ancestors, as written by Hannah Tapfield King.

Dates: 2011 May

Ted Lyon research on T. Edgar Lyon

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2372
Scope and Contents

Contains research material on T. Edgar Lyon, Sr., drafts of the T. Edgar Lyon biography, miscellaneous materials regarding T. Edgar Lyon, cassette tapes of oral interviews regarding T. Edgar Lyon, and transcripts of the cassette tapes.

Dates: 1903-2000

Christian Peter Hansen papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1471
Scope and Contents Holographs; typescripts; printed material; photocopies. Papers include biographical information and family histories; correspondence, reports, and resolutions from Hansen's labor activities and as president of the Utah State Federation of Labor, 1925-1930; correspondence, papers, and printed lobbying materials from his terms as a Utah legislator, 1929-1933; a newspaper clipping, letter, and articles about his career as a trolley bus conductor, 1908-1940. The collection also includes copies...
Dates: 1877-1975

Merle V. Adams papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8108
Scope and Contents

Collection contains photocopies of family scrapbook items relating to Merle V. Adams' career and family life. Also includes family biographies, Merle's filmography, copies of newspaper articles that mention Adams, and information about a hidden treasure reported to be near Kanab that Adams helped look for. Dated 1934-2014.

Dates: 1934-2014

Bruce A. Van Orden collection of life histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8398
Scope and Contents

Contains copies of life histories written by international members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and collected in 1995 by Van Orden during his work as a professor of religion at Brigham Young University. The histories contain accounts and information about conversion, emigration from other countries to Utah, and polygamy. Materials collected in 1995.

Dates: Other: 1995

J. Taylor Hollist collection on Wilford C. Wood

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6760
Scope and Contents Collection includes research done by J. Taylor Hollist on Wilford C. Wood. It includes photocopies and typed summaries of information he collected from the Wilford Wood Museum in Bountiful, Utah, and the LDS Church Archives in Salt Lake City, Utah. The information describes how the Church came to own many of its associated historical sites. The collection also includes a typewritten biography of Wilford C. Wood written by A. James Faulkner in 2014, and an index and endnotes to this book...
Dates: 1800-2015

Marvin and Margie Lyman oral history interviews

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6751
Abstract

Oral history interviews with Marvin and Margie Lyman, conducted by Sandy McFadden, Gary L. Shumway, Betty Mitson on 1 July 1971, 11 July 1972, and 13 August 1972 for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program.

Dates: 1971 July 1; 1972 July 11; 1972 August 13

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

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