Skip to main content

Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2081 Collections and/or Records:

George Hamilton Taylor autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 183
Scope and Contents

Handwritten autobiography. Taylor writes about his early life, conversion to the Mormon Church, migration to Utah, business ventures, missions to England, and conviction for polygamy.

Dates: approximately 1900

Hawkins Taylor autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197235233647]
Identifier: MSS 8616
Content Description Materials include a photocopy of a typewritten transcription of Hawkins Taylor autobiography. The memoirs include information throughout his whole life, including early life in Kentucky and political activities in Iowa and Nauvoo. He describes several interactions related to law enforcement with the Mormons, including arresting Hyrum Smith and being involved in the Battle of Nauvoo when the Saints were driven out in 1846. He ends describing his later political career with Abraham Lincoln....
Dates: approximately 1880's

Levi James Taylor papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2200
Abstract Includes ten journals, 1873-1935. There are date gaps in the journals, and some volumes are missing. Includes a typed copy of the journals. Also contains a Taylor family genealogical record which includes an autobiographical sketch of Levi's father, Pleasant Green Taylor. Also includes a journal of Levi's first wife, Nancy Jane Gates, September 1868-August 1869. Her record includes lists of students she taught at Lynne, Utah, in 1868; lists of children who attended Sunday School in Lynne,...
Dates: 1868-1935

Pleasant Green Taylor autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232514692]
Identifier: MSS 3896
Scope and Contents

Typescript of Pleasant Green Taylor Autobiography.

Dates: 1894

William Whitehead Taylor autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230314764]
Identifier: MSS SC 1743
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typed extracts from the diary of William Whitehead Taylor, including an account of a short mission to Indians, along with photocopies of miscellaneous writings, photographs, genealogies and biographical notes.

Dates: 1853-1907

Ted H. Carpenter memoir, approximately 2000

 File — Box 12: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 12; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005023], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 4 File 300
Scope and Contents note

File contains materials relating to the service of Ted H. Carpenter in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Materials contain a short memoir of Ted H. Carpenter, detailing his induction, training, service as a truck driver on his military bases, and assignments in the Pacific Theater. Describes his service aboard transport ships at the Marshall Islands and Quadulein Island. Discusses his duty as head of shore patrol on the Island of Ebeye. Dated approximately 2000.

Dates: approximately 2000

"Ted" Joseph Edwin Olpin memoir, 2002

 File — Carton 148: Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 19; Series 7; Series 10; Series 12; Series 14; Series 17; Series 18; Series 8; Series 20, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

File contains brief memoir about "Ted" Joseph Edwin Olpin and his service as a medic in the U.S. Army during World War II. Relates an experience where his grandmother, who had died a week before, was with him as he attended to someone in a minefield. Dated 2002.

Dates: 2002

Harriet Betsey Cook Teeples autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325380]
Identifier: MSS SC 2632
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Teeples relates that she was born in Richland, Michigan, migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1848, settled in Goshen, Utah where she met Ute Indians on several occasions, moved to Pima, Arizona with her husband, and migrated to Bear Lake Valley after his death in 1883.

Dates: 1925

Ammon M. Tenney papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305614]
Identifier: MSS SC 800
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typescript. Includes a number of letters written to Tenney by such people as Brigham Young (1801-1877), Wilford Woodruff (1807-1898), and John W. Young (1844-1924) concerning the purchase of land at St. Johns, Arizona, for Mormon settlement, missionary work among the Indians, and obtaining work for Mormon settlers by bidding on raliroad contracts. Some of Tenney's replies are also included. Folder also includes typescript copy of Tenney's journal for 1875-1876.

Dates: 1874-1889

Terence O'Rouark memoir, approximately 2001

 File — Box 12: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 12; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005023], Folder: 22
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 1 File 316
Scope and Contents

Materials contain memoir which details Terence O'Rouark's college and military years. Discusses his education, his marriage, and induction into the U.S. Army. Describes his academic and physical training at Officer Candidate School. Dated approximately 2001.

Dates: approximately 2001