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Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 86 Collections and/or Records:

Diana E. Smoot autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313378]
Identifier: MSS SC 1587
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography of Diana Eldredge Smoot which describes the trek of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Utah in 1847 in some detail.

Dates: 1912
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Borghild Nielsen Stromness diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1881
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries and correspondence. The materials deal with Stromness' daily activities and her application to serve on a Mission for the Mormon Church in Denmark. Also included are photographs of Stromness' family.

Dates: 1919-1974
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Merry May Booth Talmage papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1607
Scope and Contents Collection of documents related to May Booth Talmage, wife of James E. Talmage. Includes the original personal diary she kept from 1887 to 1892. Also includes a photocopy of the diary. The majority of the collection is photocopies of personal and family correspondence from 1890 to 1934 exchanged between May and James Talmage and their children. Also includes correspondence with other family members, friends, colleagues, and Mormon Church members. Most of these items were written while May...
Dates: 1887-1934
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Louetta Brown Tanner scrapbook

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230327089]
Identifier: MSS SC 2691
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook. Louetta Brown Tanner called it a "diary" which was kept from 13 to 20 March 1950 while she was with the "Sons of Utah Pioneers Mormon Battalion Trek." The scrapbook contains a typewritten account of the trip, poems, post cards, photographs, programs, and newspaper clippings relating to those who followed the route of the Mormon Battalion in 1950.

Dates: 1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Harriet Betsey Cook Teeples autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325380]
Identifier: MSS SC 2632
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Teeples relates that she was born in Richland, Michigan, migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1848, settled in Goshen, Utah where she met Ute Indians on several occasions, moved to Pima, Arizona with her husband, and migrated to Bear Lake Valley after his death in 1883.

Dates: 1925
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Laura Ann Keeler Thurber autobiography

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232484524]
Identifier: MSS 436
Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography which has been encapsulated and bound. The item starts with Thurber's biographies of her father, James Keeler, and her mother, Eliza Shelton Keeler. James Keeler's account was copied from his autobiography and diary. Laura lived in Santaquin, Goshen, and Richfield, Utah, and in Grass Valley, Nevada. Laura married Joseph Thurber in 1876, who entered into polygamy by marrying another woman in 1885. James Keeler joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Genevieve Tietjen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1857
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, speeches, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, biographies, autobiographies, and patriarchal blessings for the Mormon Church. The materials relate to Genevieve Tietjen and her husband, Henry Roland Tietjen, particularly when Henry served as a mission president for the Mormon Church in Hawaii. The biographies and autobiographies relate largely to Sarah' ancestors.

Dates: 1857-1982
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Ida Fredraca Kruger Tietjen autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230326834]
Identifier: MSS SC 2781
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography. Tietjen writes about her early life in Sweden, her migration to Utah, and her subsequent life as a Mormon woman in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1881
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Eli Alexander Tracy autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2714
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of an autobiography. Tracy writes about being baptized by the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, in 1842, his migration to Utah in 1850, his settling in Huntsville, Utah, and his mission to the Indians (probably Shoshoni Indians) at Ft. Supply (near Ft. Bridger), Wyoming. Also included are autobiographies of Tracy's wife, Eliza Ann Sprague Tracy, and his mother, Nancy Alexander Tracy.

Dates: approximately 1910
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Birdie Van Natta family history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230320555]
Identifier: MSS SC 2181
Scope and Contents

Handwritten autobiography. Van Natta writes of family matters and relations, her feelings on World War I, and the various places where she lived. Also included is a genealogy of the Van Natta family.

Dates: 1927-1931
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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