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Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Provo -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Don Searle

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322643]
Identifier: MSS SC 2603
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of Don Searle with handwritten corrections. Don was a native of Spanish Fork, Utah who attended Brigham Young University from 1935 to 1940. Don served in the Navy during World War II and worked as a broadcast journalist. He was killed in an automobile accident in 1946 before he turned 29 years old. Clark attended Brigham Young University with Searle and relates what student life was like at that institution in the 1930s.

Dates: 1986

Raymond P. Draper papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237015]
Identifier: MSS SC 265
Scope and Contents

Typewritten essay composed for a family home evening group presentation, a talk for sacrament meeting, and a "personal expression." The items were written while Draper was living in the 76th Ward of Brigham Young University.

Dates: 1971-1972

Edwin Smith Hinckley papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348820]
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

Albert William Jones diaries and scrapbooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 347
Scope and Contents Handwritten diary and scrapbooks. Jones writes a biography of his father, Albert Jones (1839-1925), and then writes an autobiography of his own life up to the 1890s when his diary begins. The early entries are retrospective, and the actual diary begins some time later. Most entries are short and relate to activities in Provo, Utah. Also included are thirty nine scrapbooks, most of which start in the 1920s and are arranged by subject. These items consist largely of newspaper clippings...
Dates: approximately 1903-1964

A Mormon boyhood 1906-1923

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230324466]
Identifier: MSS SC 2500
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography in two volumes. Also included are photocopies of handwritten items and newspaper clippings. The first volume of the autobiography covers the years when Partridge grew up in Provo, Utah. The second volume is entitled: "As I Remember it" and covers the years when Patridge got his education and began to teach.

Dates: approximately 1970

Oral history interview with Henry J. Nicholes

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA OH 161
Scope and Contents

Four typescripts of the included cassette sound tapes. The interview was conducted by Arthur R. Watkins from the Joint Oral History Project of Brigham Young University. Nicholes talks about his childhood in St. George, his educational background, his career as a teacher at Brigham Young University, his two marriages, and his spiritual feelings.

Dates: 1991