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Autobiographies

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2075 Collections and/or Records:

Nancy Alexander Tracy autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2214
Scope and Contents Includes an eighty-two-page holograph, plus a photocopy and a typed copy. Nancy Tracy reflects on her early life in New York state; marriage to Moses Tracy, 1832; conversion to Mormonism, 1834; occasional interactions with Joseph Smith Jr.; and experiences with her husband in New York, 1844. Includes information on her activities in Kirtland, Ohio; Far West, Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Winter Quarters, Nebraska; and Ogden, Utah. She also comments on her emigration to...
Dates: 1885

Nancy Alexander Tracy autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306851]
Identifier: MSS SC 918
Scope and Contents

Typescript of autobiography. Nancy was born in New York and raised by her grandparents. She married Moses Tracy in 1832 and joined the Mormon Church in 1834. She lived in Kirtland, Ohio; Far West, Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; "Winter Quarters"; and Ogden, Utah. She witnessed and experienced some of the persecutions of Mormons in Missouri and Illinois. She went with her husband on a mission to New York and was a member of the Mormon Relief Society in Nauvoo. She covers her life until 1860.

Dates: 1885

Transcript of autobiography of Jesse Knight written by Jesse Knight and Inez Knight Allen, approximately 2000

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231562650], Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 1434 Item 3
Dates: approximately 2000

What it Means to be a Mormon transcription

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233646493]
Identifier: MSS 8345
Scope and Contents

Collection contains the handwritten transcription of Adam S. Bennion's book, What it Means to be a Mormon, pages 171-173, which tells the story of Emmeline B. Wells' conversion and early history, including when she first met the prophet Joseph Smith. The transcriber is unknown. Dated approximately 1920.

Dates: approximately 1920

Trip folder, 2000

 File — Carton 22: Series 4, Folder: 22
Identifier: MSS 6154 Series 4 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Receipts and tickets from France, Italy, Germany, others. The Helmuth Hubener Group short article. Copy of Rededicatory prayer of East Germany. Thank-you card to Donald Cannon. Meeting notes.

Dates: Other: 2000

Trip on the Oregon cattle trail

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 165
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiographical account with handwritten corrections by and unknown author. The writer used his diary to help him remember what had happened. The autor writes about leaving Boston, Massachusetts, to go to Wyoming and drive cattle.

Dates: approximately 1878

Karla Paul Tripp autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337799]
Identifier: MSS 2719
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Tripp served as a nurse at the Navy Hospital at Mare Island, California. She married Boyd Tripp on 25 June 1947.

Dates: 2001

Theodore Turley biography and autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244623]
Identifier: MSS SC 560
Scope and Contents Typescript (duplicated). The collection includes many quotes from Turley's journal covering his early life in England, Latter-day Saint Church conversion in Canada, Mormon difficulties in Missouri, 1838-1839, details of his mission to England accompanying the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 1839-1840, the expulsion of the Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois and his colonizing mission to San Bernadino, California, 1850-1857. Also includes one page of corrections and additions by Olive K. Turley...
Dates: Undated

To the memory of my dear mother, Jerusha Hancock Tyler

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232490216]
Identifier: MSS 629
Scope and Contents

Typewritten history and genealogy of the Hancock, Adams, Bemis, and Guernsey families. Bright writes of the Joseph Hancock family in San Bernardino, California. Also included is a pamphlet by Charles Brent Hancock in which he recounts his life in Payson, Utah, including encounters with Ute Indians and numerous poems and songs written by family members.

Dates: 1956