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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2092 Collections and/or Records:

Biographies of Esmeralda Andrus Mckell

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230318807]
Identifier: MSS SC 2000
Scope and Contents

Typewritten and photocopied biography and autobiography. Stone gives an account of her life and that of her mother, Esmeralda Andrus Mckell (1865-1926). She emphasizes her and her mother's family background, childhoods, and educational experiences. Stone includes some poems by various authors and places all of the information within the interpretative framework of Mormon theology.

Dates: 1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography and family record of Cecil Grant Ash

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227650014]
Identifier: MSS SC 2930
Scope and Contents

Biography and family record of Cecil Grant Ash, 1990 where Ash recounts his experiences growing up in Lehi, Utah from the 1920s to the 1940s. He also discusses his POW experiences, including journal enteries and war poems written in the camps by U.S. soldiers

Dates: 1990
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : James Cunningham and Elizabeth Nicholson Cunningham, came to Utah in November 9, 1856

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339217]
Identifier: MSS 2416
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography of James and Elizabeth Nicholson Cunningham. James Cunningham was born in 1801 in Scotland and died in American Fork, Utah, in 1879. Elizabeth Nicholson was born in 1805 in Scotland and died in American Fork, Utah, in 1890. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Willie handcart company. Included with the narrative is the detailed account of their ordeal in the Willie...
Dates: approximately 1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Jean Elizabeth Fossum May

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2083
Scope and Contents Compiled by James A. May about his mother, Jean Fossum May, drawing heavily on her letters, journals, and notes. Gives detailed information about her life in Baker, Oregon, 1906-1959; service as a missionary in the California Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1927-1928; marriage to Andrew May, 1930; family life (as a widow after 1933); service as head resident of Stover Hall (men's housing) on the campus of Brigham Young University, 1959-1969; and efforts to...
Dates: 1990-1998
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Martha Richards Featherstone

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339175]
Identifier: MSS 2420
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobiography. Martha Richards was born in England in 1844, her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1849, and migrated to Utah in 1864. She married Thomas Featherstone in 1866.

Dates: approximately 1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Samuel Miles the son of Samuel and Prudence Marks

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7599
Scope and Contents Manuscript autobiography, labeled by the author as a biography, with thirty-two pages of a handwritten life story by Samuel Miles. The story includes a life summary from 1826 to 1851, and short yearly summaries for each year between 1852 and 1881. The text includes information that is particularly familial and spiritual, but often references broader historical events that contextualize his life. He mentions several events in Latter-day Saintn history including the violence in Missouri, his...
Dates: approximately 1852-1881
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Edward L. Black autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1448
Scope and Contents

Typescript and photocopy of missionary experiences by Edward L. Black. Black tells of many faith-promoting events while a missionary in Florida, his experiences with ministers of different denominations, and his fellow missionaries in the field.

Dates: 1978
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Joseph Smith Black autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 742
Scope and Contents

Handwritten autobiography. Black wrote this account when he was in the Utah Penitentiary for polygamy. The autobiography starts in the year 1877 when Black was living in Deseret, Utah. He writes about his life in Deseret, his avoidance of federal officials while resisting arrest for polygamy, and his subsequent incarceration in prison.

Dates: 1889-1890
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Blair Hale autobiography, 2003

 File — Box 77: Series 6; Series 7; Series 12; Series 14; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197232480571], Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 14 Sub-Series 5 File 1591
Scope and Contents note Materials include autobiography of Blair Hale regarding his service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Describes his missions over Europe with the Lightening Striked and time spent in a prison camp during World War II. Autobiography is a bound 269 page book titled "Sharing Memories of World War II". Also includes stories of how the prisoners tried to escape and how information was passed from the camp to the...
Dates: 2003
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for multiple wars / Saints at War Project records for the United States Air Force

Benjamin T. Blanchard autobiography

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236264]
Identifier: MSS SC 231
Scope and Contents

Notebook tells of Blanchard's conversion to the Mormon Church in Connecticut in 1844 and migration to Nauvoo, Illinois. From Nauvoo he joined the Mormon migration to Utah Valley and settled in Hobble Creek, Utah County, Utah. The notebook includes references to farming in the county, relationships with the Indians, and the Utah War.

Dates: approximately 1870
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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