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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2092 Collections and/or Records:

Wallace Iland Passey autobiography and biography, 2000 August 15

 File — Box 99: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 11; Series 15 [Barcode: 31197233285201], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 9 File 1872
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain the autobiography of Passey relating his life events leading up to receiving his draft notice. Also contains the biography written by his son, George Passey, which includes receiving his draft notice and serving in the European Theater as a military investigator. August 15, 2000.

Dates: 2000 August 15

Wallet, and mission and penitentiary journals of Levi James Taylor, 1883-1897

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2200 Series 2 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents note

Wallet containing miscellaneous receipts, business cards, bank notes, etc. Letter from Polly Hanslew (from wallet) on genealogy. Mission journal, approximately 200 pages, all written on. Journal kept while Taylor was serving in prison for "cohabitation." 10 x 14 cm. Approximately 150 pages, with about 60 written on.

Dates: Other: 1883-1897

Walter A. Walser papers, 1941-1944

 File — Box 10: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005486], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 2 File 255
Scope and Contents note Materials contain a memoir which describes Walter A. Walser's military experience, both in training and combat during World War II. Photographs show Walser with his crew and his wrecked plane in Switzerland. Also contains various photocopied newspaper clippings about the service of Walser and his brothers, when Walser was interned in Switzerland, a bombing mission over Berlin, his wedding announcement, and the front page to The Daily Herald June 6, 1944, article titled "Allied Forces Invade...
Dates: 1941-1944

Walter Curtis Lichfield autobiographies, 1946-1949

 File — Box 68: Series 10; Series 12; Series 14; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231013019], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 8 File 1415
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain the autobiographies of Walter Curtis Lichfield and his wife, Wilma Jeanette Browning Lichfield. In the autobiography Walter Lichfield gives his experiences serving in the U.S. Marine Corps in China shortly following World War II. Dated 1946-1949.

Dates: 1946-1949

Walter L. Schwaar memoir and photograph, 1943-1946, 2003

 File — Box 6: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005445], Folder: 28
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 11 File 169
Scope and Contents note

Materials contain a memoir of Walter L. Schwaar's service in the U.S. Army during World War II from 1943-1946. Memoir describes Schwaar's experiences landing at Utah Beach after D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and brief occupation of Czechoslovakia. Includes photograph of Schwaar in uniform. Also included is a summary of his life following World War II. Dated 1943-1946, 2003.

Dates: 1943-1946; 2003

Walter M. Farmer interview, 2003

 File — Carton 125: Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 9; Series 10; Series 12; Series 13; Series 16; Series 14; Series 15 [Barcode: 31197239146332], Folder: 58
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 10 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents

File contains two copies of a transcript of an interview with Walter M. Farmer regarding his service in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. Dated 2003.

Dates: 2003

Walter Mullins papers, 2001 March 3, approximately 1946

 File — Box 78: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 12; Series 16; Series 14; Series 15; Series 18 [Barcode: 31197233284964], Folder: 15
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 10 Sub-Series 4 File 1611
Scope and Contents note

Contains a personal memoir of Walter Mullins about his experiences in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. Materials include several photographs and a poem titled "My Hitch in Hell." Dated approximately 1946, March 3, 2001.

Dates: 2001 March 3; approximately 1946

Walter S. Scott memoir, 2000

 File — Carton 125: Series 4; Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 9; Series 10; Series 12; Series 13; Series 16; Series 14; Series 15 [Barcode: 31197239146332], Folder: 75
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 6 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

File contains memoir titled "Tokyo Trip in 1945 by the 317th Troop Carrier Group" by Walter S. Scott regarding his experiences in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. Also contains CD titled "Tokyo Trip". Dated 2000.

Dates: 2000

Ray C. Hillam war experiences and papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232483856]
Identifier: MSS 2767
Scope and Contents Typed autobiography "War Experiences" in which Hillam discusses his military exieriences and his work as a propoganda expert during both the Korean War and the Vietnamese War. Also included are Weekly Activity Reports for the Advisory Detachment, Political Warfare College, Advisory Team # 34 for the years 1967 and 1968. Also with the collection are propaganda leaflets and other documents in Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese. A copy of Hillam's book, "A Time to Kill: Reflections on War" is...
Dates: approximately 1950-2000

Ward E. Pack autobiography and journals, 1854-1935

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

Journal (2 vols.) of Ward E. Pack containing (vol. 1) autobiographical sketch; family history and genealogy, 1807-1935; patriarchal blessings given in the Kirtland Temple by Joseph Smith, Sr. in 1837; Mormon emigration, 1862; Utah legislature and Summit County political history; and accounts of missionary experiences, travels, and descriptions while in the Sandwich Islands, 1854-56, and the Eastern States, 1869-70; (vol. 2) Sandwich Islands mission, 1856-67.

Dates: 1854-1935