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Arza Adams autobiographies and diaries

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3260
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of microfilm copies of handwritten diaries. Adams joined the Mormon Church in 1836 and served as missionary for that faith in Canada. He moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, and worked on the Nauvoo Temple. He came to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1849.

Dates: approximately 1840-1858

Andrew Amundsen autobiography and diary

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2845
Scope and Contents

Typescript of an autobiography and of a diary. Amundsen writes about his early life, conversion to the Mormon Church, his migration to Utah, his missions for the Mormon Church in Arizona and Norway, and his life in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: 1882-1883

Lorraine Morton Ashton collection on Ermel J. Morton

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6273
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of papers relating to the dictionary Ermel J. Morton, a Mormon missionary who went to Tonga, created from English to Tongan and Tongan to English, his accounts of his mission and translating the Book of Mormon, a history of his wife, a catalog of his materials from home, a typed copy of the talks at his funeral and a Tongan grammar book. There is also a book written about the time the family spent in Tonga.

Dates: 1956-2011

Urvin Gee autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 938
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten autobiograpy. Gee writes about growing up in Moroni, Utah; attending the University of Utah; teaching school in Moroni from 1901 to 1938; serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Britain; performing temple work for the Church in Arizona in 1946 and 1947; and complains of poor eyesight late in his life.

Dates: 1969

Autobiography of Wesley C. Carter

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 9179
Scope and Contents

Contains an autobiography of the life of Wesley C. Carter. Includes information about his personal and professional activities. Includes personal stories from his childhood, adolescent, and adult life, notes positions held in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and discusses the work he completed while serving his building missions in the British Isles and the Southern United States. Dated approximately 1993.

Dates: approximately 1993

George Washington Bean diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1038
Scope and Contents Handwritten diaries, two autobiographies, account books, patriarchal blessings, biographies of family members, and Bean family history and genealogy. Bean writes about his early life and migration to Utah; his work as an Indian interpreter from 1852 to 1853; his pursuit of the Ute chief, Walker, in 1854; his Indian mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1855 to 1856; his life in Provo, Utah; his participation in the Black Hawk Indian War; and...
Dates: 1852-1897

Willard Washington Bean autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1529
Scope and Contents

Softbound photocopy of a typewritten autobiography which includes a newsclipping from "The Church News." Willard W. Bean served the Mormon Church for 29 years and acquired many properties for the Mormon Church in New York State, including the Hill Cumorah.

Dates: 1880-1978

Willard Washington Beans papers

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2271
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a typewritten autobiography, a newspaper clipping, a Mormon Church blessing, and an essay. Also included are photocopies of handwritten letters received by Bean. These items include letters received from Mormon Church leaders Heber J. Grant and J. Golden Kimball. Bean was a missionary to the Southern States and lived in Palmyra, New York from 1915 to 1939.

Dates: 1893-1978

Jacob G. Bigler autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2757
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of an autobiography. Bigler writes about his relationship with the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith (1805-1844), his life in Nauvoo, Illinois, his migration to Utah, and his life in Nephi, Utah. Bigler served on a mission for the Mormon Church in Ireland and was active in Mormon Church activities in Nephi.

Dates: 1907

Edward L. Black autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1448
Scope and Contents

Typescript and photocopy of missionary experiences by Edward L. Black. Black tells of many faith-promoting events while a missionary in Florida, his experiences with ministers of different denominations, and his fellow missionaries in the field.

Dates: 1978

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Bean, Willard Washington, 1868-1949 3
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Crosby, Jonathan 2
Holt, James, 1804-1894 2
Murphy, Castle Hadlock, 1886-1985 2
Nye, Ephraim H. (Ephraim Hesmer), 1845-1903 2
Scott, Andrew Hunter, 1815-1874 2
Tanner, George S. 2
University of Utah 2
Utah State University 2
Woodruff, Wilford, 1807-1898 2
Adams, Arza, 1804-1889 1
Albion State Normal School (Idaho) 1
Amundsen, Andrew, 1849-1927 1
Ashton, Lorraine Morton 1
Atlanta Georgia Temple (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Barker, James L. (James Louis), 1880-1958 1
Barker, Kate M., 1881-1972 1
Barrus, Mary Elizabeth Clark, 1873-1961 1
Barrus, Orlando Clark, 1902-1922 1
Barrus, Orrin Orlando, 1870-1958 1
Bean, Elizabeth Baum, 1834-1916 1
Bean, Emily Haws, 1836-1908 1
Bean, George Washington, 1831-1897 1
Bean, Mary Jane Wall, 1841-1891 1
Bigler, Jacob G., 1813-1907 1
Black, Edward L. (Edward Lenox), 1868- 1
Bowers, Winnifred 1
Boy Scouts of America 1
Brigham Young University. Department of Music 1
Brigham Young University. Indian Education Department 1
Bullock, James, 1830-1911 1
Butler, William, 1825-1905 1
Cannon, David H., 1838-1924 1
Carter, Mary Hall, 1920-2009 1
Carter, Wesley C. (Wesley Carol), 1917-1995 1
Christensen, Christen Frank 1
Christopherson family 1
Church Educational System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Argentina Buenos Aires Missionary Training Center 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Central States Mission 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Columbia Bogota Missionary Training Center 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Eastern States Mission 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. England London Mission 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Illinois Chicago South Mission 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Southern Indian Mission 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Turkish Mission 1
Clark, Israel Justus 1
Clark, Lucy A. Rice 1
Cluff, William Wallace, 1832-1915 1
Corbridge, Agnes H. 1
Corbridge, Ivan L. 1
Council of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 1
Crane, George, 1832-1919 1
Crosby, Caroline Barnes, 1807-1884 1
Cummings, Benjamin Franklin 1
Dalley, Julius S. (Julius Sylvester), 1877-1953 1
Dalley, Julius W. 1
DeWitt, Abel Alexander 1
DeWitt, Ruth Leila Kempe, 1880-1943 1
Downing, Lester N., 1914- 1
Durham, Thomas, 1828-1909 1
Erickson, Einar, 1847-1931 1
Evans, John, 1829- 1
Felt, Paul E., 1916-1999 1
Flake, James Madison, 1859-1946 1
Frandsen, Evelyn Mackay 1
Fugal, Christian A. 1
Gee, Urvin 1
Goodman, A. Harold, 1924-2007 1
Grant, Heber J. (Heber Jeddy), 1856-1945 1
Griffiths, William John 1
Guy, Lilian Joan Lockhart, 1925- 1
Hale, Alma Helaman, 1857-1938 1
Hall, John Charles, 1821-1890 1
Halliday, George, 1823-1900 1
Halliday, John R. 1
Hamblin, Jacob, 1819-1886 1
Hawaii Temple (Laie, Hawaii) 1
Hayes, John H. (John Henry), 1853-1938 1
Haynes, Myrtle Isabella Rathjen, 1923- 1
Hill, Jobe 1
Hill, Virginia Christopherson, 1906- 1
Hillstead family 1
Hillstead, John Blakey, 1822- 1
Hinton, Harvard R. 1
Hinton, Rose M. (Rose Marie), 1928- 1
Hintz family 1
Hintze, F. F. (Ferdinand Friis), 1854- 1
Hoffman family 1
Holliday family 1
Holm, Carl Otto 1
Holm, Victorina 1
Hurst, Frederick William, 1833-1918 1
Hutchings, Silas, 1868-1943 1
Hyde, Orson, 1805-1878 1
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