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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2078 Collections and/or Records:

Arvin S. Gibson memoir and photographs, approximately 2000

 File — Box 10: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005486], Folder: 24
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 File 268
Scope and Contents File includes materials relating to the service of Arvin S. Gibson in the Headquarters Company of the U.S. Army during World War II as part of the transportation corps. Materials include a detailed memoir of Arvin S. Gibson's experiences on Iwo Jima. Discusses life in the military camps, the carnage on the beaches, the difficulty of clearing the island of the last Japanese units, and the bravery of the Marines. Contains Gibson's thoughts on war, patriotism, and freedom. Photographs show...
Dates: approximately 2000

Arvin Springthorpe photograph and memoir, 1945 March

 File — Box 74: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 17 [Barcode: 31197232480548], Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 File 1502
Scope and Contents

Materials include history and photograph relating to the service of Arvin Springthorpe in the U.S. Army during World War II. Included is a photograph of Springthorpe and his mother and a short memoir with the history of Springthorpe's ancestors. Dated March 1945.

Dates: 1945 March

As a bee gathereth honey

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308139]
Identifier: MSS SC 1019
Abstract

My first day of visiting teaching in Quito, Ecuador.

Dates: 1978

Lorraine Morton Ashton collection on Ermel J. Morton

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6273
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of papers relating to the dictionary Ermel J. Morton, a Mormon missionary who went to Tonga, created from English to Tongan and Tongan to English, his accounts of his mission and translating the Book of Mormon, a history of his wife, a catalog of his materials from home, a typed copy of the talks at his funeral and a Tongan grammar book. There is also a book written about the time the family spent in Tonga.

Dates: 1956-2011

Paul Parrish Ashworth autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230350693]
Identifier: MSS 6016
Abstract

Autobiography of Paul Parrish Ashworth a leader in the electrical industry of the western United States, 1953-1958.

Dates: 1953-1958

Rachel Calder Ashworth family papers and histories

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9001
Scope and Contents

Rachel Calder Ashworth family papers and histories contains family histories, biographies, autobiographies, family records, pedigrees and photographs of her pioneer ancestors and their families, many of whom were in Vernal, Utah. Some of the more frequently mentioned families are the Ashworths, the Mentzers, the Hackings, and the Calders. Dated from approximately 1900 to 2015.

Dates: approximately 1900-2015

William Atkin autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329671]
Identifier: MSS SC 3097
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of William Atkin "A Youth's Experience taken from the Union printed in 1896." William Atkin was born in England on 27 March 1835 and joined the Mormon Church in 1852. He migrated to the United States in 1855 and moved to Florence, Nebraska. He came to Utah in a handcart company and commented on the inexperience of the people in his group. He arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 10 November 1859.

Dates: 1860