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A biography of Alexander Williams
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 459
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biography. The year of the composition of the item is unknown. Kimball writes that Williams was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1847, had encounters with the Ute Indians, lived as a polygamist, and converted to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Dates:
1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Nathan Staker
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2681
Scope and Contents
Two typewritten biographies of Nathan Staker with photocopies of the same items. Sanderson wrote the biography of Staker with William Marchant Staker and Sarah Ellis Halley Pearson. The authors are grandchildren of Nathan Staker. Also included is a "History of Nathan Staker." Staker was from Canada. He joined the Mormon Church, migrated to Utah in 1852, married two women, and was a farmer in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.
Dates:
1955
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of William Rufus Rogers Stowell
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 506
Abstract
Includes typewritten and handwritten biographies of William Rufus Rogers Stowell. Also included are typed excerpts from the biography and photocopies of an account of Stowell's death handwritten by his grandson, Earl Stowell. William Stowell was a convert to the Mormon Church. He lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1852, served in the Utah Militia during the Utah Expedition, served on missions for the Mormon Church, and went to Mexico to avoid prosecution for polygamy.
Dates:
approximately 1893-1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
A brief history of the life of Frederick Weight by himself
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3200
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript . Weight wrote about his early life in England and his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He migrated to the United States in 1849 and came to Utah in 1851. He settled first in Salt Lake City, Utah, where his wife died in child birth. Weight married Mary Milnes. He wrote about grasshopper troubles in 1854 and about his move to Springville, Utah, in 1856. He worked as a plasterer and a general laborer and faced...
Dates:
Approximately 1895
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Susan Elizabeth Redd Butler papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1739
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, autobiographies, diaries, biographies, newspaper clippings, and school compositions. The correspondence, biographies, and diaries relate to Susan's family and parents. Many of the items relate to Mormon polygamy and to Butler's school career. Also included is a biography and biographical materials of Butler's father, Lemuel Hardison Redd.
Dates:
1893-1977
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Butler autobiographies and letters
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 863
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of autobiographies and personal letters. Included are four personal histories of varying lengths. Butler described his visions, business matters, family relationships, church assignments, missions served, and recounted many colorful experiences including hunting down and killing the murderer of one of his children. The letters were written by William Butler and his first wife, Emma Harvey, to their Henry Harvey Butler in 1891-2 while Henry was serving on a mission to...
Dates:
1850-1905
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographical sketch of William Carter
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 528
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biography. Also included is a typewritten poem by Johnson. William Carter was a Mormon who lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1847, and lived in Salt Lake City and later in St. George, Utah. He was a polygamist who spent time in the Utah penitentiary for bigamy.
Dates:
1938
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Roberta Flake Clayton book drafts
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 715
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of typescripts of biographies used in Clayton's "Pioneer Women of Arizona," published in 1969, and "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Arizona," published in 1974. Most of the 195 women and 118 men are Mormons who relate their personal experiences in the early settlements of Arizona.
Dates:
1969-1974
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Cordelia Morley Cox collection of biographies
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1152
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of handwritten biographical sketches of family members. Cordelia Cox writes about Emeline Whiting Cox, Emma Peterson Cox, Jemima Losee Cox, Lydia Losee Cox, Frederick Walter Cox, and Isaac Morley. Also included is Cordelia Cox's testimony to the truthfullness of the Mormon faith. She also writes about her experiences as a plural wife of Frederick Cox.
Dates:
approximately 1880
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Abraham Day III
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2680
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten biography of Abraham Day, III (1817-1900). Abraham Day was born in Vermont, joned the Mormon Church, moved to Montrose, Iowa near Nauvoo, Illinois, served in the Mormon Battalion 1846-1847, migrated to Utah, took a second wife, and lived in Springville and Mt. Pleasant, Utah, and served in the Black Hawk War. The date of the composition of this item is uncertain.
Dates:
approximately 1930
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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