Latter Day Saints -- Idaho -- Biography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Grover : his ancestors and descendants
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232481538]
Identifier: MSS 1590
Scope and Contents
Bound volume of histories and genealogies of the Grover family and a biography of Thomas Grover (1807-1886). The work includes charts, maps, genealogies, and photographs with the text. Thomas Grover joined the Mormon Church in 1834 and later emigrated to Utah and then to Idaho. The volume was compiled by Stephen E. Grover and Dean R. Grover.
Dates:
1966
Hammond family biographies and diary
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 834
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of typescripts of biographies and histories of members of the Hammond family and their ancestors. The biography of Jasper Melvin Hammond (1882-1958) was written "by his wife and daughters" sometime after his death. Jasper, often called Jesse, was born in Providence, Utah but was raised in Marysville, Idaho. He worked in hotels in Yellowstone Park, for a railroad, and as a farmer.A typescript of the diary of Milton D. Hammond (1831- ) for the years...
Dates:
approximately 1856-1960
George Tilton Hyde oral history transcript
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308923]
Identifier: MSS SC 1105
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a transcript of an interview done with George Hyde by his son, Rosel H. Hyde, on 16 Aug. 1956. George was raised in Kaysville, Utah, served on a Mormon mission to the Southern States, and spent most of his adult life in Idaho. He lived in Downey and was stake president of the Pocatello Stake for the Mormon Church for twenty-five years.
Dates:
1956 August 16
Personal histories and life sketches of ancestors of Vera Price
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232480456]
Identifier: MSS 1560
Scope and Contents
These manuscripts are biographies and autobiographies of ancesters of Vera Price. These individuals include Lewis Dunbar Wilson Jr. and Sr., John Lingren (autobiography), and James Brown (by Gladys Brown White). Most of the biographies are short (several pages) typescripts. There are biographies of 17 members of the Wilson family, 4 of the Price family, 3 of the Hunt family, and 2 of the Walton family. These individuals were Mormons, most of whom lived in Idaho. James Brown was a member...
Dates:
approximately 1890-1978
Tonks family biographies and diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 835
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two diaries and their photocopies and biographies of 16 Tonks family members. The members of the Tonks family belonged to the Mormon Church and lived in Utah and Idaho. The diary of Warren Tonks covers from 2 Jan. 1921 to 25 Feb. 1923 when the author was a missionary for the Mormon Church in New Zealand. It is in three notebooks written mostly in pencil.The diary of George Moroni Tonks (1856-1932) covering from 8 March 1887 to 4 June 1887 plus a...
Dates:
1887-1970