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Beecher, Maureen Ursenbach

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1935-

biographical statement

Citation:
MSS 2285; Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers; University Archives; L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University (English professor, Resarch Historian for Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History, 1935 March 19, Calgary Alberta, Canada, Charles Ursenbach and Lucile Harvey, 1958 Swiss-Austrian Mission, 1981-1997 research historian, associate professor, professor of English, retired Ottowa, Ontaria, Canada, 1997)

MSS 1979; Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers; University Archives; L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University (editor and senior research associate of History Division of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1972-1980)

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher personal project files, 1970-1995

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 3
Scope and Contents Contains various personal projects of Beecher, including those she headed or collaborated on. Materials include manuscript drafts, research files, and related correspondence. Projects include papers for various seminars and associations, Church News vignettes, a history text chaper, talks to honors students at BYU and other students, and projects to be published. Materials cover topics including the Relief Society, Canadians in Utah, diaries and autobiographies of Mormon women, Utah in the...
Dates: 1970-1995
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1979, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher project files on Eliza R. Snow, 1975-1994

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 3 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains Beecher's personal project files on Eliza R. Snow, including her poetry and songs, her Nauvoo Journal and other diaries, photographs and maps from Nauvoo and Utah, an ancestral file, an index to Snow's writings, the administrative history of the Relief Society, and other research materials on Snow. Includes many of Beecher's publications on Snow, most notaby "The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow," "Eliza Remembers," "Inadvertent Disclosure: Autobiography in the Poetry of Eliza...
Dates: 1975-1994
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1979, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher personal project files

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher research materials, 1972-1997

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains Beecher's research materials for various projects. Includes interview materials with Juanita Brooks, lists and file cards of Mormon pseudonyms, and questionnaires for Canadians in Utah. Also contains a map of Kirtland, records on pioneer companies, a cemetery list, photographs of women in the earlier 20th century, a bound copy of the Men and Women newspaper from 1895, as well as various diaries and letters of early Mormons. Also includes records on women in upper Canada and research...
Dates: 1972-1997
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1979, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers

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Canadians -- United States 2
Letters 2
Nauvoo (Ill.) 2
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Utah -- History -- 19th century 2
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Equal rights amendments -- United States 1
Manuscripts for publication 1
Poetry 1
Relief Society 1
Research 1
Seminars 1
Songs 1
Widowhood 1
Women -- Canada 1
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