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Biographies

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 3199 Collections and/or Records:

Biography : George Heber Robinson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341650]
Identifier: MSS 2567
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. George Heber Robinson was born in Iowa in 1847. His family were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He came to Utah in 1849, settled in American Fork, and later fought in the Black Hawk Indian War. He married Almira Adella Smith in 1871 and also married Margaret Crystal in 1878. He died in 1923.

Dates: circa 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : Hannah Allen Kirkman

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2560
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Hannah Allen was born in 1853 in Provo, Utah. She married Robert Kirkman in 1870 and moved to American Fork, Utah. She had seven children and died in 1917.

Dates: approximately 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : Henry Hart Boley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341767]
Identifier: MSS 2580
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Henry Hart Boley was born in Pennsylvania, and his parents came from Berlin, Germany. The family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. He accidenally shot himself in 1843. Henry Boley came to Uah in 1849 and later settled in American Fork. He had twelve children and died in 1876 from the "lingering affects of the gun wound inflicted while standing guard at the Temple of...
Dates: 1944
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : Isaac Binns and wife Ellen Singleton Binns, pioneers 1862

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339589]
Identifier: MSS 2522
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Ellen Singleton was born in 1849 in St. Louis, Missouri, and Isaac Binns was born in England in 1829. They were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They migrated to Utah in 1862 and settled in American Fork. They married in 1866. Ellen died in 1895, and Issac died in 1917.

Dates: 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : James Cunningham and Elizabeth Nicholson Cunningham, came to Utah in November 9, 1856

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339217]
Identifier: MSS 2416
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography of James and Elizabeth Nicholson Cunningham. James Cunningham was born in 1801 in Scotland and died in American Fork, Utah, in 1879. Elizabeth Nicholson was born in 1805 in Scotland and died in American Fork, Utah, in 1890. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Willie handcart company. Included with the narrative is the detailed account of their ordeal in the Willie...
Dates: approximately 1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : James Robbins

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339811]
Identifier: MSS 2550
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. James Robbins was born in England in 1831. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1860. He settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1886.

Dates: approximately 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : Jemima Berry Henson Durrant / written by Ella E. Durrant

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341072]
Identifier: MSS 2596
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed typewritten biography of Jemima Berry Henson Durrant, written by her descendant, Ella E. Durrant, around 1944. Jemima was born in England in 1826 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She immigrated to Utah and lived in American Fork. The biography includes a history written and read by Joseph B. Forbes at the funeral of Jemima in August 1904.

Dates: 1904 August; approximately 1944
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : John Bourne

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339639]
Identifier: MSS 2529
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. John Bourne was born in 1831 in England. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois. He came to Utah in 1849 and settled in American Fork. He died in 1865 of consumption.

Dates: 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography : John George Dickerson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341908]
Identifier: MSS 2588
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. John George Dickerson was born in 1859 in England and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the age of twelve. He migrated to Utah in 1871 and settled in American Fork. He married Ruth Deveraux in 1886 and died in 1929.

Dates: 1944
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography Joseph Alston

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340819]
Identifier: MSS 2509
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Joseph Alston was born in 1821 in England, and he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1839. He migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he knew Joseph Smith, the first president of the Mormon Church. He migrated to Utah probably in 1850 and died in 1891.

Dates: 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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