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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2092 Collections and/or Records:

Sheldon Riser Brewster papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1980
Scope and Contents

Autobiographies, official correspondence, newspaper clippings, certificates, and miscellaneous items. These materials document the life and civic and church careers of Brewster. They include letters from prominent Utah politicians and newsletters Brewster sent to members of his ward who were in the U.S. military forces during World War II.

Dates: 1919-1975

Brief history of Silas LeRoy Richards, 1959 October

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232484094], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 734 Item 5
Scope and Contents

Handwritten life scketch and typed version included.

Dates: 1959 October

Flora Robertson Brimhall autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336411]
Identifier: MSS 458
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Brimhall writes about her family background, her youth in Spanish Fork, Utah, her marriage to George H. Brimhall, and gives her reflections on polygamy. As an adult, she lived in Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1938

George H. Brimhall professional papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231027431]
Identifier: UA 72
Scope and Contents

Contains speeches, literary compositions, an autobiography, class notes and notebooks on philosophy of education, notes from speeches, an 1879 account of student tuition to the Young Men's Academy at Spanish Fork, Utah, and records of tuition accounts when Brimhall served as district superintendent of Utah County schools.

Dates: 1872-1926

Richard Britton autobiography and temple record copies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230332527]
Identifier: MSS SC 3143
Scope and Contents

General autobiography of Richard Britton, tells of his journey from England to Utah in the mid-1850s. Also various temple records.

Dates: approximately 1880

Isaac Brockbank Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8837
Scope and Contents

Collection contains Isaac Brockbank Jr.'s personal diaries between 1900-1925, an autobiography which he began to write during the time he spent in a Utah prison for Unlawful Cohabitation, and a typed forward of Brockbank's diaries which includes a personal history of Brockbank's life alongside summaries of each of his diary entries found in the included diaries. Materials dated between 1884-2016.

Dates: 1857-2016; Majority of material found within 1900-1925

Carlfred Bartholomew Broderick papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2128
Scope and Contents

Papers include journals and other autobiographical writings, appointment books, correspondence, copies of books and articles authored by him, and a videotape copy of a talk that he gave. Also includes histories and genealogical data, focusing on his Broderick and Bartholomew ancestors.

Dates: 1956-1998

Brookside subdivision 70th birthday celebration, 1944-2014 : a walk down memory lane

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197235219620]
Identifier: MSS 8404
Scope and Contents

DVD about the founding of Brookside subdivision in Springville, Utah, and the residents who live there. Dated 2014.

Dates: 2014

George Brown papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342161]
Identifier: MSS 796
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diary, receipts, and a typewritten autobiography. Brown writes in his diary about his life in Hoytsville, Summit County, Utah. He writes about weather conditions, meetings of the Mormon Church, and business in Park City, Utah, where he hauled coal. Also included is an autobiography of Viola N. Zumbrunnen Mabey, Brown's daughter. Maybey writes of her life in Summit County, Utah.

Dates: 1878-1962

George Washington Brown autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337237]
Identifier: MSS 480
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography. Brown writes about his early life and travels. He tells about going to California in 1849 to participate in the gold rush, about encounters between whites and Indians in Texas, and about his life in that state.

Dates: 1910