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Found in 771 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Nelson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325489]
Identifier: MSS SC 2640
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography and a typescript of the item. Nelson writes about his family joining the Mormon Church in Scotland, about migrating to Utah, and about his life in Smithfield, Utah.

Dates: 1934
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Newspaper articles

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230232644]
Identifier: MSS SC 5
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of newspaper clippings. Dan Croft inteviewed the mayor of Orem, Utah, B. M. Jolley, about the history of Orem. Jolley gave Croft information on the early days of the community.

Dates: 1973
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biographical sketch : Ann Rachel Marsh Nicholes, pioneer of 1853

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339241]
Identifier: MSS SC 3328
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Ann Rachel Marsh was born on the Island of Jersey in 1824 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1853 and settled in American Fork. She died in 1909.

Dates: 1930
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

John Nielsen personal history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311778]
Identifier: MSS SC 1469
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typed transcript of a personal history. Nielsen describes his life growing up in Denmark, his family's emigration to America, and his experiences and hardships after arriving in Utah.

Dates: 1948
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Biography of Niels Nielsen and Karen Marie Pedersen Nielsen

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339233]
Identifier: MSS SC 3329
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Niels Nielsen was born in 1825 in Denmark. Karen Marie Pedersen was born in 1827 also in Denmark. Each joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853, and they married each other in 1854. They migrated to Utah in that same year and settled in American Fork in 1856. Karen died in 1897, and Niels died in 1898.

Dates: 1928
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Joseph Bates Noble autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345776]
Identifier: MSS 968
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography. Noble writes about his conversion to the Mormon faith, his missionary work in the Eastern United States and England, his service with Zion's Camp in 1834, and his work as a bishop in Nauvoo, Illinois, and in Winter Quarters, Nebraska.

Dates: 1890
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Ephraim H. Nye autobiography and journal

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349752]
Identifier: MSS 4136
Abstract

One bound volume by Ephraim Nye discussing his own life and those of his family's, dated 1882-1896.



Dates: 1845-1920
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Charles H. Oliphant and Orson Bennett Adams autobiographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234368]
Identifier: MSS SC 155
Scope and Contents Coverless notebook containing handwritten autobiographies of Oliphant and Adams. Oliphant writes of his childhood, meetings with Brigham Young, his work as a horticulturalist, and the Deseret Horticultural Society. Adams' autobiography is written back to front in the same notebook. He writes about his joining the Mormon Battalion along with his wife who worked as a laundress, his settlement in Parowan, Utah, his fighting the Indian Wars, and exploration during the Utah War during which he...
Dates: approximately 1800s
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Alice Dandy Ollerton biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315118]
Identifier: MSS SC 1710
Scope and Contents

Typescript of the biography of Alice Dandy Ollerton, English convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Describes the handcart trek across the plains which took the lives of Ollerton's husband, daughter, and herself.

Dates: approximately 1980
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James Ollerton biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230314988]
Identifier: MSS SC 1723
Scope and Contents

Typescript of the biography of James Ollerton, English convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who settled in Parowan, Utah.

Dates: 1923
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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