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Biographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 3199 Collections and/or Records:

Sketch of the life of Margaret Thornton Wright

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339449]
Identifier: MSS SC 3342
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography by an unknown author. Margaret Thornton Wright was born on 4 January 1844 in Scotland. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1850, migrated to Utah in 1853, and later came to American Fork. She married Frekrick Wright and had 13 children. Margaret died in 1908.

Dates: 1930

Wright, Morris H., 1961-1975

 File — Box 240: Series 3; Series 4 [Barcode: 31197239139022], Folder: 21
Identifier: UA 664 Series 3 Sub-Series 4 File 252

Wright, Morris H., 1988

 File — Box 240: Series 3; Series 4 [Barcode: 31197239139022], Folder: 22
Identifier: UA 664 Series 3 Sub-Series 4 File 253

Wright, Norman Edgar, approximately 1965-1975

 File — Box 192: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231015170], Folder: 23
Identifier: UA 909 Series 1

Wroten, Richard W., fall '90, 1990

 File — Box 197: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197239138594], Folder: 12
Identifier: UA 664 Series 2 Sub-Series 9 File 499

Francis M. Wyndham papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233290060]
Identifier: Vault MSS 455
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and typewritten correspondence, a biography, newspaper clippings, and galley proofs of an article. The materials relate to Wyndham's study of Joan of Arc and to her beatification. Also contains "The Marvellous History of Joan of Arc" (typewritten with handwritten corrections, twenty pages long), and "Sermon on the Blessed Joan of Arc preached in the Cathedral at Rouen 8 May 1910" in French. Collection includes 22 items.

Dates: 1892-1918

Mary Ann Hoopes Yearsley papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230240241]
Identifier: MSS SC 391
Scope and Contents

Materials include papers related primarily to Yearsley. Includes a holograph journal of a visit to her home state of Pennsylvania in 1872 and a printed life sketch compiled by James D. Cummings, a grandson, in 1914. Also includes her husband, David Dutton Yearsley's, missionary recommend signed by John D. Lee and Joseph Young, Nauvoo, Illinois, 1844. Dated 1844-1914.

Dates: 1844-1914

James Yorgason correspondence and biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230347343]
Identifier: MSS 1334
Scope and Contents

Typewritten correspondence and biographical materials. The items were compiled by an unnamed grandchild of Yorgason.

Dates: 1917-1948

Young, Brigham, 1926-1975

 File — Box 193: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231015188], Folder: 4
Identifier: UA 909 Series 1

Young, Christina D., date of production not identified

 File — Box 193: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231015188], Folder: 7
Identifier: UA 909 Series 1