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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2092 Collections and/or Records:

"Companion for 'My China Years'" part one , approximately 1984

 File — Box 57: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197227637474], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 3 Sub-Series 8 File 1
Scope and Contents

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Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Helen Foster Snow papers / Helen Foster Snow published and unpublished manuscripts / Helen Foster Snow files on My China Papers

"Companion for 'My China Years'" part two , approximately 1984

 File — Box 57: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197227637474], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 3 Sub-Series 8 File 2
Scope and Contents

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Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Helen Foster Snow papers / Helen Foster Snow published and unpublished manuscripts / Helen Foster Snow files on My China Papers

Peter Wilson Conover autobiography

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244359]
Identifier: MSS SC 664
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of an autobiography. The date of composition of the item is uncertain. Conover writes about the persecutions of Mormons before their emigration to Utah, his service in the Utah Militia against the Utes and in the Utah War from 1857 to 1858, and his family.

Dates: approximately 1860
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

A copy of the sketch of the life of David Cazier as written by himself dated Nephi, Utah

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232491198]
Identifier: MSS 666
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a typewritten autobiography. Cazier was born in Ordham County, Kentucky. His family moved to Illinois in 1841 where he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1845. He later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1850. He settled at Nephi, Utah, in 1851 and later married polygamously. Cazier also writes about his family life.

Dates: 1913
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Coray family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1422
Scope and Contents

Contents includes correspondence, journals, autobiographical and biographical sketches, pertaining to the lives of Howard Coray his wife Martha Jane Knowlton Coray and members of the Coray family. Contents deal with the Coray family’s dealing with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, their family history, and their finances.

Dates: 1843-1965
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Coray, Howard, approximately 1900

 File — Box 45: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197231240638], Folder: 14
Identifier: UA 566 Series 3 Sub-Series 2 File 76
Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Centennial History Project records / Centennial History Project source material files / Centennial History Project topical source files

Life story of Agnes Howe Corbridge

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331479]
Identifier: MSS SC 3019
Scope and Contents Autobiography of Agnes Howe Corbridge contains memories of her childhood in Murray, Utah; church service; attendance at the University of Utah, 1934-1938; teaching at Preston High School (Idaho), 1938-1942; marriage; and travels. Autobiography of Ivan L. Corbridge contains memories of his childhood in Malad, Idaho; church service, including a Latter-day Saint Mission to Australia; service in the U.S. Air Force during World War II; attendance at Utah State University; and work as faculty at...
Dates: 1993
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Cordell Vail papers, 1968-1972, 2003

 File — Box 52: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 12 [Barcode: 31197231012854], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 12 Sub-Series 1 File 1119
Scope and Contents note Material contains papers relating to the military service of Cordell Vail during the Vietnam War. Contains correspondence, Vail's memoir entitled "Coming of Age at War," and many photographs, including two contained on an optical disc. Describes how he decided to make his military experience a second mission as he felt as though he had not been very succesful in Finland on his real mission. Tells how he gave all of the men in his platoon a Book of Mormon and they referred to him as their...
Dates: 1968-1972; 2003
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for Vietnam War / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army

Edwin Charles Cox papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231044865]
Identifier: MSS 1006
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes, musical scores, an obituary, and excerpts from an autobiography. Cox writes mostly about his life in England during the 1830s and 1840s. His writings include a "Dialogue between Joseph Smith and the Devil."

Dates: 1896
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Martha Cragun Cox autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 319
Scope and Contents

Holograph autobiography which tells of Cox's early life in Salt Lake City, Utah and her family history, Latter-day Saint Church activities, education and teaching career. She married Isaiah Cox as a plural wife in 1869 and moved later to Mexico, settling in the Mormon colonies. She left Mexico during the Revolution of 1912.

Dates: 1928
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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