Biographies
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 3199 Collections and/or Records:
White, Steven V., 1984-1985
File — Box 240: Series 3; Series 4 [Barcode: 31197239139022], Folder: 10
Identifier: UA 664 Series 3 Sub-Series 4 File 241
Whitfield, Clint C., 1961-1963
File — Box 182: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231008043], Folder: 4
Identifier: UA 909 Series 1
Whiting, A. Milton, 1992, 1992
File — Box 196: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197239138586], Folder: 24
Identifier: UA 664 Series 2 Sub-Series 9 File 484
Whitman, Robert A., fall '90, 1989-1990
File — Box 196: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197239138586], Folder: 25
Identifier: UA 664 Series 2 Sub-Series 9 File 485
Clarissa Alger Whitney : wife of Francis Tuft Whitney, daughter of Samuel and Clarissa Hancock Alger
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329804]
Identifier: MSS SC 3084
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm of a typewritten manuscript. The item is a biography of Clarissa Alger Whitney by an unknown author. The date of composition is uncertain. Clarissa was born on 2 June 1830 in "The East and grew up in the environment of danger, mobbings, journeys attendant to the removal of the Saints from Nauvoo [Illinois], the Morley and Hancock settlements, Winter Quarters [Nebraska], and the crossing of the Great American desert to the Great Salt Lake Valley." One of her...
Dates:
approximately 1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
History of New Samuel Whitney
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329796]
Identifier: MSS SC 3085
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. The Item was "Compiled and written by Olene Hanks Kingsbury October, 1940." The item is a biography of New Samuel Whitney, who was born in a wagon on 1 March 1851 in Parowan, Utah. "He was called 'New' all his life because of the fact that he was the first white child born in Iron Country." Francis Tuft Whitney was a poet and penned an enclosed poem at the birth of his son, New. "New was reared amid conditions incident to...
Dates:
1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
History of Sarah Elizabeth Gurr Whitney
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329788]
Identifier: MSS SC 3086
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten document. The item is a biography of Sarah Elizabeth Gurr Whitney. Sarah's earliest memories were when she was on board the Janiford, a ship sailing from Sidney, Australia, to San Francisco, California. The journey took 103 days. She came with the "Australian Company" to Parowan, Utah, late in 1857. "Sarah E. Gurr was born in Sidney Australia, February 13, 1855 and was only two years old when she arrived in Parowan, Utah." At age fourteen "she...
Dates:
1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James Whittaker diaries
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325158]
Identifier: MSS SC 2582
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of handwritten diaries, newspaper clippings, and a biography. Some of the diaries were kept in the pitman form of shorthand. Whittaker made two journeys from England to the United States, once in 1842 and again in 1851. He kept diaries of these trips and of crossing the continent to Utah in 1851. Also included is a biography of Whittaker by Charlotte Chatterly Perkins Jones.
Dates:
1842-1880
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Whittle, Jack W., 1968-1978
File — Box 240: Series 3; Series 4 [Barcode: 31197239139022], Folder: 12
Identifier: UA 664 Series 3 Sub-Series 4 File 243
Who's who in the Bott family in England and America
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230323252]
Identifier: MSS SC 2428
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a history of the Bott family and its members. The items include histories, biographies, and letters from members of the family. A branch of the Bott family joined the Mormon Church.
Dates:
1957
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections