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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2078 Collections and/or Records:

Three Witnesses : Oliver Cowdery, 1987

 File — Carton 20: Series 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 6154 Series 3 Sub-Series 1
Dates: Other: 1987
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 6154, Donald Q. Cannon faculty and family papers / Donald Q. Cannon teaching and instructional materials / Donald Q. Cannon pedagogical materials

Joseph S. Thurber diary

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232488392]
Identifier: MSS 844
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diary kept while Thurber was serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Switzerland. He worked in the French-speaking areas. Also included is an autobiography at the end of the record in which Thurber writes about his early life. Thurber lived in Richfield, Utah.

Dates: 1903-1904
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Joseph S. Thurber diary

Laura Ann Keeler Thurber autobiography

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232484524]
Identifier: MSS 436
Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography which has been encapsulated and bound. The item starts with Thurber's biographies of her father, James Keeler, and her mother, Eliza Shelton Keeler. James Keeler's account was copied from his autobiography and diary. Laura lived in Santaquin, Goshen, and Richfield, Utah, and in Grass Valley, Nevada. Laura married Joseph Thurber in 1876, who entered into polygamy by marrying another woman in 1885. James Keeler joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Laura Ann Keeler Thurber autobiography

David Thygerson autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 374
Scope and Contents Typewritten copy of an autobiography with handwritten notes. Thygerson's account was probably written around 1938. He was born in Ephraim, Utah and went with his family to Colonia Dublan, Mexico to avoid prosecution for polygamy. He lived there until 1912 when he left because of the revolution in Mexico. He went blind in 1916 and settled in Manti, Utah in 1917. Thygerson writes about the mental problems associated with his blindness and comments about the attitude of local people on his...
Dates: approximately 1938
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / David Thygerson autobiography

Genevieve Tietjen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1857
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, speeches, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, biographies, autobiographies, and patriarchal blessings for the Mormon Church. The materials relate to Genevieve Tietjen and her husband, Henry Roland Tietjen, particularly when Henry served as a mission president for the Mormon Church in Hawaii. The biographies and autobiographies relate largely to Sarah' ancestors.

Dates: 1857-1982
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Genevieve Tietjen papers

Ida Fredraca Kruger Tietjen autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230326834]
Identifier: MSS SC 2781
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography. Tietjen writes about her early life in Sweden, her migration to Utah, and her subsequent life as a Mormon woman in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1881
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Ida Fredraca Kruger Tietjen autobiography

To Japan with encouragement and hope

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523031]
Identifier: MSS SC 3060
Scope and Contents

Jacobsen writes about being held in captivity by the Japanese for three and one-half years in the Philippines and Japan during World War II. Comments on the strength that he derived from his belief in the Mormon Church and in his family.

Dates: 2000
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / To Japan with encouragement and hope

Thomas Todd autobiography

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230232164]
Identifier: MSS 685
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of an autobiography. Todd writes about his youth in Scotland, his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850, his immigration to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1854, his service in the Utah Militia during the Utah Expedition, and his life in Spanish Fork and in Heber City, Utah. He also includes family genealogies.

Dates: approximately 1895
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Thomas Todd autobiography

John F. Tolton autobiography, diaries, and histories

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230347228]
Identifier: MSS 409
Abstract

Includes typewritten copies of an autobiography, diary, and a history of Beaver, Utah.

Dates: 1884-1931
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John F. Tolton autobiography, diaries, and histories

Barbara Toomer autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341288]
Identifier: MSS 2620
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Toomer was born in 1929 and went into nursing. She served as a nurse at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1955. She married Ross Toomer in 1953.

Dates: 2000
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Barbara Toomer autobiography

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