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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 23 Collections and/or Records:

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher papers presented in academic meetings, 1975-1997

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2285 Series 8
Scope and Contents note

This series contains papers that were presented by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher in academic forums. Many pertain to the history of prominent LDS women. Materials dated 1975-1997.

Dates: Other: 1975-1997

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher personal papers, approximately 1972-1996

 Series — Carton 20: Series 7 [Barcode: 31197231186062]
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 7
Scope and Contents

Contains personal files of Beecher, including weekly planners from 1973-1996, music from the ward choir, financial and retirement information, personal awards, and printed documents. Also includes news clippings relating to Beecher and her work with the church and Brigham Young University, cards, programs, invitations, and personal correspondence. Also contains a paper weight honoring the 50th anniversary of the Church News, circa 1972-1996.

Dates: approximately 1972-1996

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

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher personal research and addresses, 1972-1994

 Series — Box 4: Series 4 [Barcode: 31197225551289]
Identifier: MSS 2285 Series 4
Scope and Contents Research materials on Swiss-Mormon history (Swiss family branches, the Swiss Mission, etc.), including photos, diaries, family records, books, and correspondence; materials for papers written and addresses given by Beecher, including photocopies, bibliographies, commentaries, writing guides, material on the LDS Church History division, drafts, LDS Church manuals, correspondence, article reprints, issues of Church News and other publications (The Creative Woman, The Ensign, Exponent II, The...
Dates: Other: 1972-1994

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

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher publications, 1974-1997

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2285 Series 6
Scope and Contents

This series includes many of Maureen Ursenbach Beecher's published writings, nearly all of which addressed the history of Mormon women and were published in LDS magazines or other publications. Materials dated 1974-1997.

Dates: Other: 1974-1997

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

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher research materials on Lorenzo Snow, approximately 1974-1991

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 2 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents Contains research materials on Lorenzo Snow including his life chronology broken down into five-year segments, as well as specific files covering his missions to Italy, Great Britain, and within the United States, his time at Oberlin College, and apostleship and time as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Also contains family records, records on the Brigham City cooperative, files on his ten wives, his prose and poetry, copies of census records, as well as diaries...
Dates: approximately 1974-1991

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher research materials on women in Upper Canada, approximately 1986-1994

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1979 Series 2 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains research files on women in upper Canada, including a thesis on Irish Palatine communities, various letters and diaries, history of Ontario and other cities, and information covering loyalism and the American Revolution. Also contains records about various individuals, notably John and Mary Page, early Latter-Day Saints, and Barbara Heck, cited as the mother of American Methodism, circa 1986-1994.

Dates: approximately 1986-1994

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher student and research files on Mormon Women's History, 1954-1997, 1909

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2285 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Student compositions and research on various aspects of Mormon women's history (features historical figures' diaries, autobiographies, missionary journals, correspondence, oral histories, memoranda, and poetry); includes maps, typescripts, floppy disks, photographs, pamphlet excerpts, style guides for LDS authors, etc.

Dates: Other: 1954-1997; Other: 1909

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Type
Archival Object 19
Collection 4
 
Subject
Colleges and Universities 11
Education 11
Latter Day Saint churches -- Switzerland -- History 9
Latter Day Saint women -- History 9
Latter Day Saints -- Switzerland -- History 9