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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2092 Collections and/or Records:

Travel information, 1999

 File — Carton 23: Series 4; Series 5, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 6154 Series 4 Sub-Series 2
Dates: Other: 1999
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Donald Q. Cannon faculty and family papers / Donald Q. Cannon professional organizations and activities / Donald Q. Cannon papers on World Religions Seminar

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Donald Q. Cannon faculty and family papers / Donald Q. Cannon professional organizations and activities / Donald Q. Cannon papers on Mormon History Association

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Typescript of Ward E. Pack autobiography, undated

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231563963], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 449
Scope and Contents

Contains a typescript of the autobiography in box 1 folder 1.

Dates: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Ward E. Pack papers

Charles Ursenbach collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1853
Scope and Contents Includes intermittent journals, 1921-1971, and daily journals, 1973-1985; photocopied news clippings, primarily about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Canada, 1956-1981; transcripts of oral histories that Ursenbach recorded with Chesley N. Pierson, Louis O. Brandley, and Asael E. Palmer; personal histories of Elizabeth Fern Wood Smith and Ole F. Pierson; Ursenbach's history of Richard C. Harvey and the development of Romnellet sheep; histories of Latter-day Saint wards in...
Dates: 1924-1985
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Utah County Genealogical and Historical Society family history collections

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3984
Abstract

Miscellaneous family histories, biographies and autobiographies, mostly on Utah ancestry, 1530 to 1963.

Dates: Other: 1530-1963
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

George Arne Vaieland and Aslaug Haviland scrapbooks and memoir

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6864
Scope and Contents

Collection contains materials from the life of Aslaug Vaieland Haviland and her son, George Arne Vaieland. Materials were created, acquired, and assembled by George Arne Vaieland. Includes biographical and autobiographical items, letters, photographs, printed material, and other ephemera. It also includes an autobiographical memoir written by Aslaugh Haviland in 1977. Materials dated 1947-2007.

Dates: 1947-2007
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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