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Biographical sketch of John Oxenham

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2915
Scope and Contents

A typed biographical sketch of John Oxenham, an English author. His real name was William Arthur Dunkerley. Mentions his business experiences in France and the United States. Mainly traces the beginnings of his writing career.

Dates: approximately 1948

Biographical sketch of Mrs. Christina Kelly

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3310
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography of Christina Kelly. Christina Peterson Kelly was born in Denmark in 1837, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1853 and 1854. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and married William Kelly in 1856. She died in 1914.

Dates: approximately 1930

Biographical sketch of Mrs. Emma Grace Austin

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3284
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a micrifilm copy of a typewritten biography. Gudmundsen writes about Emma Grace Austin. Emma Grace was born in 1827 in England. She married John Austin in 1848 and was the mother of 17 children. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Emma migrated to Utah in 1868 and settled in Lehi, Utah, and died in 1893.

Dates: approximately 1930

Biographical sketch of the life of Elizabeth Cunningham Kelley

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3312
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. "Dates and historical events arranged and collected by Olive Dunn Binnall, a Grand-daughter---October 6, 1930." Kelley was born in Scotland in 1843, came to the United States in 1856, and migrated to Utah with the Willie handcart company. Kelly suffered many hardships before the company reached Salt Lake City, Utah. She died in 1922.

Dates: 1930

Biographies

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 184
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographies and an autobiography. The items relate incidents in the lives of various family members. The autobiography is by Tamma Durfee Miner who writes about her conversion to the Mormon Church; experiences as a Mormon in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois; migration to Utah; and settling in Springville, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1880-1950

Flora J. Jensen biographies and histories of Huntington, Utah

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 959
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typewritten and handwritten biographies and histories. The biographies were usually written by descendants of the subjects. The materials are about Mormons in Hungtington, Utah, and aspects of life in that town.

Dates: 1947-1970

Biographies and histories of Lewiston, Utah

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1577
Dates: 1881-1976

Biographies of Beesley family

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 853
Scope and Contents This collection consists of a letter to LeGrand Baker, an archivist at BYU, briefly discussing the ancestors of Mrs. Fifield, biographies of Frederick Beesley and his wife Elizabeth Ellen Solomon Beesley, and a short history of the Beesley Music Co.Frederick Beesley was a musician who conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, an accountant, a shoemaker, one of the founders (along with his father) of the Beesley Music Co., and the secretary/treasurer of the Salt Lake Philharmonic...
Dates: 1975

Biographies of Esmeralda Andrus Mckell

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2000
Scope and Contents

Typewritten and photocopied biography and autobiography. Stone gives an account of her life and that of her mother, Esmeralda Andrus Mckell (1865-1926). She emphasizes her and her mother's family background, childhoods, and educational experiences. Stone includes some poems by various authors and places all of the information within the interpretative framework of Mormon theology.

Dates: 1945

Biographies of Farnes family

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8251
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of biographies and remembrances of Farnes family members. There are pages missing from the stories. Materials date from between approximately 1945 and 1975.

Dates: approximately 1945-1975

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L. Tom Perry Special Collections 814
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Subject
Biographies 255
Immigration and American Expansion 215
Social Life and Customs 211
Latter Day Saint women -- Biography 200
Home and Family 187
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Pioneers 179
Autobiographies 164
Letters 146
American Fork (Utah) -- History 121
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 105
Politics, Government, and Law 105
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Latter Day Saints -- England 59
Latter Day Saints -- Biography 58
Biography -- 20th century 56
Biography -- 19th century 55
Diaries 52
Missions and Missionaries 50
Immigrants 46
Correspondence 43
Nurses -- United States -- Biography 42
City and Town Life 37
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Literature 32
Overland Journeys to the Western United States 32
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Utah -- Emigration and immigration 28
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Personal narratives 27
Histories (Literary works) 23
Religion 22
Salt Lake City (Utah) -- History 22
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care 21
Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Utah -- Biography 20
Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- Biography 20
Presidents -- United States -- Biography 18
Scrapbooks 18
Family histories 17
Fine Arts 17
Genealogies 17
Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Biography 17
Church Government 16
Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History 16
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Latter Day Saints -- Denmark 9
Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History 9
Receipts (Acknowledgments) 9
Speeches, addresses, etc., American 9
Artists -- United States -- Biography 8
Latter Day Saint missionaries 8
Oral histories 8
Promissory notes 8
Relief Society 8
Utah -- History -- 19th century 8
Fur traders -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 7
Latter Day Saint pioneers -- History 7
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography 7
Typescripts 7
American poetry -- 19th century 6
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Timpson, Laura Logie, 1886-1973 24
United States. Army 23
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Young, Brigham, 1801-1877 12
Brigham Young Academy 11
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 11
Shelley, Charlotte D. 10
Jones, Edith Boley, 1892-1973 9
United States. Army. Mormon Battalion 9
Clark, Sadie Ollerton, 1901-1992 6
James G. Willie Emigrating Company 5
Buckwalter, Eliza W. 4
Clayson, Ruby Thornton Brown, 1889-1976 4
Edward Martin Emigrating Company 4
Gardner, Nathan H. 4
Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies 4
Joint Oral History Project (Brigham Young University) 4
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 4
Lund, Nora 4
Mormon Tabernacle Choir 4
Sager, Bertha N. 4
Utah. Militia 4
Buck, Claude, 1890-1974 3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. First Council of the Seventy 3
Clark family 3
Clark, William, 1770-1838 3
Durrant, Ella E., 1893-1963 3
Hartley, L. P. (Leslie Poles), 1895-1972 3
Jensen family 3
Mott, Albert S. 3
Park, James Pollock, 1821-1889 3
Pratt, Parley P. (Parley Parker), 1807-1857 3
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 3
Smith family 3
Smith, Lot 3
Stout, Dora M. Hall, 1878-1940 3
University of Utah 3
Utah Expedition (1857-1858) 3
Utah State University 3
Wright, June S. 3
Able, Mary E. S. 2
Alston, Louisa Grant 2
Andrus family 2
Andrus, Hyrum L. (Hyrum Leslie), 1924-2015 2
Andrus, Milo, 1814-1893 2
Archer, Patience Loader Rozsa, 1827-1921 2
Armstrong, Anthony, 1897-1976 2
Baker family 2
Baker, Glen, 1908-1988 2
Baker, LeGrand 2
Bean, Elizabeth Baum, 1834-1916 2
Bean, George Washington, 1831-1897 2
Bern Switzerland Temple (Zollikofen, Switzerland) 2
Berrett, William E. (William Edwin) (1902-1993) 2
Boggs, Lillburn W., 1792-1860 2
Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de, 1796-1878 2
Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889 2
Brigham Young University. Department of Zoology 2
Britton, Richard 2
Carson, Kit, 1809-1868 2
Christensen, C. C. A. (Carl Christian Anton), 1831-1912 2
Church Educational System (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 2
Clark, Leigh William, 1900-1992 2
Clarke, Rissa M. (Rissa Merkley), 1909-1986 2
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 2
Council of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 2
Cox, Cordelia Morley, 1823- 2
Crosby, Jonathan 2
Dansie, Charlotte Rudland, 1829-1862 2
DeMille, Cecil B. (Cecil Blount), 1881-1959 2
Dearborn, Henry 2
Durrant, Elizabeth Jane Ginger 2
Durrant, Jemima Berry Henson, 1836-1904 2
Durrant, Kezia Keys 2
Elliott, Norma Larson, 1916-2009 2
Greenwood, Ann Crystal 2
Greenwood, Jane L. R. (Jane Leah Robinson), 1882-1970 2
Hall, John Charles, 1821-1890 2
Hall, Keziah DeGrey, 1837-1905 2
Hamblin, Jacob, 1819-1886 2
Hart, James H., 1825-1906 2
Hawaii Temple (Laie, Hawaii) 2
Hess, Margaret Steed 2
Holmes, Blair 2
Hunt, Wilson Price, 1783?-1842 2
Iverson, Haydee Jackson 2
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 2
Jackson, Ellen Wright, 1836-1904 2
Jagger, Dean, 1903-1991 2
Jensen, Naomi Asay Anderson 2
Johnson family 2
Kelly family 2
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 2
Leithead family 2
Lisa, Manuel, 1772-1820 2
Luckett, Thomas C. 2
Lund, Terry 2
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