Autobiographies
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Young and Seymour B. Young papers
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349323]
Identifier: MSS 513
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography and an account of Joseph Young's death and funeral by his son, Seymour B. Young. Joseph writes about his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and comments on various doctrines of that faith.
Dates:
approximately 1881
Charles H. Oliphant and Orson Bennett Adams autobiographies
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234368]
Identifier: MSS SC 155
Scope and Contents
Coverless notebook containing handwritten autobiographies of Oliphant and Adams. Oliphant writes of his childhood, meetings with Brigham Young, his work as a horticulturalist, and the Deseret Horticultural Society. Adams' autobiography is written back to front in the same notebook. He writes about his joining the Mormon Battalion along with his wife who worked as a laundress, his settlement in Parowan, Utah, his fighting the Indian Wars, and exploration during the Utah War during which he...
Dates:
approximately 1800s