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Biography of Samuel Miles the son of Samuel and Prudence Marks
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7599
Scope and Contents
Manuscript autobiography, labeled by the author as a biography, with thirty-two pages of a handwritten life story by Samuel Miles. The story includes a life summary from 1826 to 1851, and short yearly summaries for each year between 1852 and 1881. The text includes information that is particularly familial and spiritual, but often references broader historical events that contextualize his life. He mentions several events in Latter-day Saintn history including the violence in Missouri, his...
Dates:
approximately 1852-1881
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Benjamin T. Blanchard autobiography
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 231
Scope and Contents
Notebook tells of Blanchard's conversion to the Mormon Church in Connecticut in 1844 and migration to Nauvoo, Illinois. From Nauvoo he joined the Mormon migration to Utah Valley and settled in Hobble Creek, Utah County, Utah. The notebook includes references to farming in the county, relationships with the Indians, and the Utah War.
Dates:
approximately 1870
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Orley Dwight Bliss autobiography and diary
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 615
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography and diary. Account is retrospective until 1864, when Bliss writes short daily entries about his journey from Salt Lake City to Nebraska by ox team to help gather the poor to Utah. On the return trip to Utah, Bliss describes weather conditions, daily camping locations and mileage, encounters with Indian tribes, and more than twenty deaths from cholera. Bliss immigrated to Utah at age 8 and participated in the Utah War. Several pages of family genealogy are included...
Dates:
1864-1865
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
The book of life of Hugh Moon
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 751
Scope and Contents
Typescript of an autobiography. Moon was born in Lancashire, England, converted to Mormonism with his parents, came to Nauvoo, Illinois, migrated to Utah in 1848, moved to St. George, Utah, in 1861, and relocated to Farmington, Utah, in 1866.
Dates:
1869
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
George Washington Bradley autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2768
Scope and Contents
Typewritten copy of an autobiography. Bradley writes about being called to settle in Sanpete County. He was among the first settlers in Manti, Utah, and tells about life there, and contact with Ute Indians. Also included are three biographies of Bradley by family members. The dates of composition of these items are uncertain.
Dates:
approximately 1859-1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Richard Britton autobiography and temple record copies
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3143
Scope and Contents
General autobiography of Richard Britton, tells of his journey from England to Utah in the mid-1850s. Also various temple records.
Dates:
approximately 1880
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Brown autobiography and four letters received
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 945
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of Brown's autobiography. Also includes four original letters, one from Augusta Winters Grant, wife of Pres. Grant; and a Relief Society Financial Report for 1892.
Dates:
1892-1913
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William Dearborn Brown journal
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7819
Scope and Contents
Journal by Brown writing about his ancestors, family history, and his own personal history. Materials also include a digital record of the journals. Entries date from around 1860.
Dates:
approximately 1860
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Lowe Butler autobiographies
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 390
Scope and Contents
Collection includes three typewritten versions of the autobiography of John Lowe Butler. The autobiographies describe Butler's conversion to the Latter-day Saint Church, building Nauvoo, Illinois, officiating in the temple, experiences as Joseph Smith's bodyguard, the martyrdom of Smith, the expulsion from Nauvoo, the journey to Utah, the colonization of Spanish Fork, Utah, the Utah War and genealogical information of the Butler family, family wills and patriarchal blessings.
Dates:
1957-1970
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David H. Cannon autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 588
Scope and Contents
Typewritten autobiography which describes emigration from England to Utah, 1842-1847, his church missions to California, England and Utah's Dixie and his experiences as an immigrant leader. Gives data on church positions, including his calling as president of the St. George, Utah Latter-day Saint Temple.
Dates:
1917
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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