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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2092 Collections and/or Records:

Andrew Jackson Workman autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227629638]
Identifier: MSS 5902
Scope and Contents

Andrew Jackson writes about his family's conversion to Mormonism in 1839 while living in Tennessee; his settlement at Nauvoo, Illinois, 1843; the exodus west; serving in the Mormon Battalion, and march to California; his work in the gold mines; his arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, 1855; the return trip to California; settling in Kane County, Utah; the death of his wife, Rebecca Deck; his remarriage to Sariah A. Eager, 1866 and the organization of the United Order, 1874.

Dates: 1839-1874

Ruth Udy Dare autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341213]
Identifier: MSS 2612
Scope and Contents

Typed autobiography. Ruth Udy was born in 1921 in Idaho. She worked in the Los Angeles, California area and in Germany. She married Douglas Byron Dare in 1946 and died in 2001.

Dates: 2000

William Clarence Wright personal papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236348]
Identifier: MSS SC 232
Scope and Contents

Three ALS's by Wright to his wife, Edyth Dinwoodey Wright, which relate to his experiences as a Mormon missionary in England. Also includes a holograph autobiography by Wright. Included with the collection are correspondence concerning donation of Wright's papers.

Dates: 1897-1956, bulk 1897-1899

Writings about Granville Stuart, 1901-1957

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1534 Series 12
Scope and Contents

This series is comprised of Granville Stuart's biography (1921) and his journals and reminiscences from his life in Montana, entitled Forty Years on the Frontier as seen in the Journals and Reminiscences of Granville Stuart: Gold-Miner, Trader, Merchant, Rancher, and Politician, published in 1925. Also included is one publication owned by Stuart, The Overland Stage to California, published in 1901.

Dates: 1901-1957

Writings and history of Jonathan Ellis Layne

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233386]
Identifier: MSS SC 31
Scope and Contents

Typescript (carbon copy) of an autobiographical sketch written by Layne in 1898 which gives details of his early life in Nauvoo, Illinois; his trek across the Plains to Utah; his settlement in Davis, Weber and Cache Counties, Utah; his experiences with the Mormon soldiers sent to oppose Johnston's army; and his eventual move to Alberta, Canada to escape arrest as a polygamist. Also includes extracts from his journal, 1887-1891.

Dates: 1877-1898

Yellowstone Park memories

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337443]
Identifier: MSS 2591
Scope and Contents

Reminiscenes of living in the Park as a child and his father's work as superintendent of road construction in the Park for Morrison-Knudsen Company.

Dates: 2003

Archibald Miller Young autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230320472]
Identifier: MSS SC 2211
Scope and Contents

Handwritten account of Young's trip from Scotland to Utah. Young recounts the trip which was conducted largely by boat and by train.

Dates: 1873

Mahonri M. Young papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 4
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, sketchbooks, research files, autobiographical files, scrapbooks, and news clippings. Also includes diaries, address and memorandum books, and financial records. Most letters were exchanged with family members and close friends. Primary correspondents included his son, Mahonri Sharp Young; his first wife, Cecilia Sharp Young; and Mary Lightfoot Tarleton, whom he met in Paris after Cecilia died in 1917. Research files include extensive information on other artists.

Dates: 1870-1957

Phineas Young papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2281
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and typewritten autobiograpy, diary, biographies, and genealogies of Young's descendents. The diary covers the years 1856 and 1857 and document Young's mission to England. Young's atuboiography covers his life to 1857. Also included are two biographies of Young written by family members.

Dates: approximately 1856-1950

Zane Grey manuscripts, between 1900 and 1990

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8316 Series 4
Scope and Contents

This series contains manuscripts for books, short stories and screenplays by Zane Grey, Loren Grey, and others related to Zane Grey, and two biographical manuscripts, dating from between 1910 and 1990.

Dates: between 1900 and 1990