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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2092 Collections and/or Records:

"A Companion for My China Years: pages cut from the original" , approximately 1984

 File — Box 53: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197227637425], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 3 Sub-Series 8 File 5
Scope and Contents

Second part. Undated, but approximately 1984.

Dates: approximately 1984
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Helen Foster Snow papers / Helen Foster Snow published and unpublished manuscripts / Helen Foster Snow files on My China Papers

A day on the Spanish Fork farm / Gail S. Halvorsen, 2009

 Item — Box 69: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197239238808], Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 2220 Series 2 Sub-Series 5
Dates: 2009
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Gail S. Halvorsen papers / Gail S. Halvorsen papers, audio-visual recordings, and artifacts / Gail S. Halvorsen personal and family papers

A history of Lewella Rees Christiansen / by Lewella R. Christiansen

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239282509]
Identifier: MSS SC 1494
Scope and Contents A typed autobiography titled, "A history of Lewella Rees Christiansen" by Lewella R. Christiansen, edited by John R. Christiansen, dated November 12, 1990. Lewella Rees Christiansen was the wife of ElRay L. Christiansen, who worked in the seminary program and was a general authority for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lewella discusses ElRay's career and callings within the Church, living in Logan, Utah, presiding over the Texas-Louisiana mission and serving in the Salt Lake...
Dates: 1990 November 12
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

A history of William Huntington written by himself and transcribed by his son O.B. Huntington, 1855 January

 Item — Folder 2: [Barcode: 31197239144147]
Identifier: Vault MSS 272 Item 3
Dates: 1855 January
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Huntington diary and autobiography

A. Keith Brown memoir, approximately 1991

 File — Box 13: Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7 [Barcode: 31197231005031], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 1 File 337
Scope and Contents

Materials contain a short memoir detailing A. Keith Brown's military service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Describes the living conditions, weather, combat conditions, and interaction with other servicemen and the natives of Saipan, Okinawa, Guam, and the Philippines. Includes accounts of patrols that Brown participated in wherein he exchanged small arms fire with the Japanese. Dated approximately 1991.

Dates: approximately 1991
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Pacific) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army

A military experience / Reed M. Johnson, after 1976

 File — Carton 1: [Barcode: 31197239252726], Folder: 39
Identifier: MSS 9148 File 39
Scope and Contents

This file contains the history of the military experience of Reed M. Johnson titled A military experience.

Dates: after 1976
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Don E. Norton interviews with veterans

A sketch of the life of Hannah Elizabeth Rhead written by herself in 1964, 1964

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232484094], Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 734 Item 6
Dates: 1964
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / S. LeRoy Richards papers

Myron Alma Abbott autobiography

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232504610]
Identifier: MSS 661
Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography of Abbott written in 1917. Includes a description of Abbott's life including his birth in Weber County, and life in Tocquerville and Plymouth, Utah, before moving to Bunkerville, Nevada, in 1877. He describes the stay of the Mormon Apostle, Wilford Woodruff, when he was in Bunkerville while dodging federal officials for polygamy. Also includes Abbott's marriage to Mary Leavitt in 1881 and life in Annabella, Sevier County, Utah, from 1886-1910, where he was involved...
Dates: 1917
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Laura J. Adamson account of a dream

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338961]
Identifier: MSS 127
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiographical account of a dream told by Laura J. Adamson. The story was written down by Susa Young Gates. Adamson relates that the dream gave her information relating to a brutal murder of Adamson family members, and she says that the murdered people came back from the dead to tell her to commit herself more fully to the Mormon faith.

Dates: 1916
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Arza Adams autobiographies and diaries

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230332592]
Identifier: MSS SC 3260
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of microfilm copies of handwritten diaries. Adams joined the Mormon Church in 1836 and served as missionary for that faith in Canada. He moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and worked on the Nauvoo Temple. He came to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1849.

Dates: approximately 1840-1858
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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