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Latter Day Saint women -- Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Martha Carless Webb : came to Utah 1867

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340421]
Identifier: MSS 2476
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Martha Carless was born in England in 1831 and married William Rawlings Webb in 1854. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1860, migrated to Utah in 1867, and settled in American Fork. She died in 1905.

Dates: 1935

Bessie Rachel Weeter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341338]
Identifier: MSS 2625
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of Bessie Rachel Weeter by an unknown author. Weeter graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in Salt Lake City, Utah. She served in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps for 31 years and retired in 1976. She died in 1999.

Dates: 2000

Emmeline B. Wells centennial memorial exercises

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340017]
Identifier: MSS 72
Scope and Contents

The folder contains a printed invitation asking Junius F. Wells to come to the dedication of a statue of Emmeline B. Wells to be held on 29 February, circa 1928. Heber J. Grant gave the invocation and Governor George H. Dern accepted the statue.

Dates: approximately 1928

Biography of Eliza Faulkner Welsh

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339423]
Identifier: MSS SC 3339
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobiography. Eliza Faulkner Welsh was born in Halifax County, Nova Scotia, in 1843. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1855 and left for Utah the same year. She tells about the hardships of the migration to Utah and the many deaths from Cholera in her family. She died in American Fork, Utah, in 1927.

Dates: 1920

Short life sketch of John S. Whilte, Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331149]
Identifier: MSS SC 3204
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of typescript of a microfilm copy. The collection is a biography of John S. White and Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White. "John S. White Sen., member of Company C. Iowa Volunteers (Mormon Batallion) in Mexican War, 1846, Utah Pioneer." "Ann Eliza Adelaide Everett White, member of Grant's Company of Utah Pioneers." The couple lived in Farmington, Utah.

Dates: 1927

Biographical sketch of Mrs. Hannah Wild

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339431]
Identifier: MSS SC 3340
Scope and Contents Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Hannah Binns was born in 1840 in England, and her family soon migrated to the United States. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1852. The family first settled in Salt Lake City, Utah, but moved to American Fork in 1855. Hannah married John Singleton in 1856 and had 5 children by him. He died in 1865, and she married Joseph Wild in 1868. She also had 5 children by him. Hannah became...
Dates: 1930

Althea Rawlins Woodland autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341239]
Identifier: MSS 2615
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Althea was born in 1920 in Lewiston, Utah. She was stationed as a nurse in San Francisco, California, and was later sent to England. She married Daniel Platt Woodland in 1946.

Dates: 2000

Ruth Udy Dare autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341213]
Identifier: MSS 2612
Scope and Contents

Typed autobiography. Ruth Udy was born in 1921 in Idaho. She worked in the Los Angeles, California area and in Germany. She married Douglas Byron Dare in 1946 and died in 2001.

Dates: 2000

W. Thomas Wride biographies

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2135
Scope and Contents

Contains biographies for Lewis William Barry Wride, 1862-1934 and Harriet Stark Wride, 1868-1944; Alma Baker, 1877-1950 and Hannah McKinley Baker, 1870-1946; and Daniel Stark, 1820-1907. The collection also consists of Philip J. Hart's autobiography, his personal journals 1932-1999; scrapbooks, photographs, and materials relating to Hart's career.

Dates: 1932-1999