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Latter Day Saint women -- Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

Patricia Rushton autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336924]
Identifier: MSS 2711
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Rushton writes about her experiences as a nurse when assigned to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her faith in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-days Saints, and her service in the Navy Reserves. She was called up during operation Desert Storm.

Dates: 2001

Patricia Rushton biographies for Nurses at War

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337690]
Identifier: MSS 2723
Scope and Contents

This file contains a floppy disk (3 1/4 inch) and five optical discs containing 122 biographies as part of the LDS Nurses at War project. They were collected by Patricia Rushton. Materials are dated 2001 to 2003.

Dates: 2001-2003

Alice May Brewer Saily papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8032
Scope and Contents

Materials include a short biography of Alice May Brewer Saily, and her slide photographs from her travels around the world. The materials are dated approximately 1945-2010.

Dates: approximately 1945-2010

Biographical sketch of Sarah Clegg Shelley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339365]
Identifier: MSS SC 3333
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Sarah Clegg was born in 1851 in England. Sarah joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1864,migrated to Utah in 1866 and settled in American Fork. She married Stephen Shelley in 1870 and had 5 children.

Dates: 1930

Short sketch of Alice Mitchell Steele : came to Utah, 1861

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339498]
Identifier: MSS 2496
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Alice Mitchell was born in England in 1860. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and then migrated to Utah in 1861 and settled in American Fork. She married Richard Reese Steele in 1877 and had nine children.

Dates: 1935

Short sketch of Mary Shuttleworth Wild : came to Utah 1859

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340694]
Identifier: MSS 2501
Scope and Contents

This item was photocopied from a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Mary Shuttleworth was born in England in 1832 and married Joseph Wild in 1854. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migreated in Utah in 1859 where they settled in American Fork. She was a kind worman who loved her children. She died in 1902.

Dates: approximately 1935

Short sketch of the life of Thomas Shelley and Charlotte Elsmore : pioneers of American Fork, Utah, 1851

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340520]
Identifier: MSS 2465
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Thomas Shelley was born in England in 1822, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married Charlotte Elsmore, and migrated to Utah in 1851. He worked as a farmer in American Fork and died in 1902. Charlotte Elsmore Shelley was born in 1828 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married Thomas Shelley, and migrated to Utah. She died in 1904. They had eight children.

Dates: 1935

Biography of Harriet Bebbington Silcock : came to Utah in 1854

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340736]
Identifier: MSS 2494
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Harriet Bebbington was born 1814 in England, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853, and migrated to Utah in 1854. She married Thomas Silcock in 1855 and died in 1893.

Dates: 1935

Sketch of Catherine Cunningham Adams : taken from the other biographies and Church history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230332428]
Identifier: MSS SC 3282
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biogaphy of Catherine Cunningham Adams. Adams was born in Scotland in 1838, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah with the ill-fated Willie handcart company in 1856. She married, had 11 children, and died in 1912.

Dates: approximately 1930

Mavis M. Smith family histories

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2851
Scope and Contents

Six family histories prepared by Mavis M. Smith, and a transcription of the journal of Samuel Drollinger Moore.

Dates: 2003