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Biographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 3199 Collections and/or Records:

Biographical sketch of Hannah Meredith White

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341833]
Identifier: MSS 2573
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Hannah Meredith was born in 1855 in Wales. Her family had been converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they migrated to Utah in 1863. The family first lived in Salt Lake City and later in Vernon in Tooele County. She married Joseph White in 1875, and she and her husband moved to American Fork in 1906. She died in 1939.

Dates: approximately 1940

Biographical sketch of Harriet Wood Robinson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340637]
Identifier: MSS 2480
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Harriet Wood was born in England in 1839. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois. They came to Utah in 1851 and settled in American Fork. She married William Walker Robinson and died in 1876.

Dates: approximately 1935

Biographical sketch of Jefferson Hunt

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230240571]
Identifier: MSS SC 410
Scope and Contents

Typewritten sketch of the life of Hunt.

Dates: undated

Biographical Sketch of John Hindley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339324]
Identifier: MSS 2446
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. The author of the item is unknown. John Hindley was born in England in 1820 and was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1848. He came to the United States in 1849 and settled in American Fork, Utah. He was a businessman who had three wives. He died in 1886.

Dates: approximately 1935

Biographical sketch of John Oxenham

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329044]
Identifier: MSS SC 2915
Scope and Contents

A typed biographical sketch of John Oxenham, an English author. His real name was William Arthur Dunkerley. Mentions his business experiences in France and the United States. Mainly traces the beginnings of his writing career.

Dates: approximately 1948

Biographical sketch of Joseph Brigham White

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341841]
Identifier: MSS 2572
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Joseph Brigham White was born in 1855 in England. He came to the United states when he was six weeks old, and he came to Salt Lake City, Utah, with other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he was 15 years old. He settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1938.

Dates: approximately 1940

Biographical sketch of Joshua Adams : pioneer of Utah 1848, pioneer of American Fork 1850

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339035]
Identifier: MSS 2402
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Joshua Adams was born in 1833 in Canada, and his family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1836. He migrated to Utah in 1848 and later settled in American Fork. He was a farmer and a rancher, had a large family, and died in 1906.

Dates: 1933

Biographical sketch of Mrs. Emma Grace Austin

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230332402]
Identifier: MSS SC 3284
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a micrifilm copy of a typewritten biography. Gudmundsen writes about Emma Grace Austin. Emma Grace was born in 1827 in England. She married John Austin in 1848 and was the mother of 17 children. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Emma migrated to Utah in 1868 and settled in Lehi, Utah, and died in 1893.

Dates: approximately 1930

Biographical sketch of the life of John Gibbs Smith, approximately 1948

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232564093]
Identifier: MSS 9004 Item 1
Scope and Contents

Contains a biographical sketch of John Gibbs Smith written by his brother, Ralph Gibbs Smith. Dated approximately 1948.

Dates: approximately 1948

Biographical sketch of the life of Zina Young Williams Card, 1930 March 26

 Item — Box 2: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197232550142], Folder: 20
Identifier: MSS 1421 Series 3
Scope and Contents

17 pages titled Biographical Sketch of the Life of Zina Young Williams Card, written in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 26, 1930, one year prior to her death, and read at her 80th birthday party.

Dates: 1930 March 26