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Olive Smoot Bean autobiography

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2139
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography (pages 163 to 197). Bean writes about her childhood in Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah, her marriage, and her children.

Dates: 1933-1934

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2285
Abstract

The collection contains materials gathered into four main series: (1) student and research files on Mormon women's history; (2) class notes; (3) personal files reflecting university and professional committees she served on; and (4) her personal research and address files. The addendum contains research files collected Maureen Ursenbach Beecher as well as materials from an English class.

Dates: 1909-1997; Majority of material found within 1948-1997

Ole Hendriksen Berg letter

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2363
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letter dated 2 May 1886 and addressed to a brother Andersen. The item was composed in Noregian and was written in Provo, Utah. Berg writes about recent activities.

Dates: 1886 May 2

O. H. Bery letter

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2147
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letter addressed to "Elder O. H. Olsen." Bery outlines a scheduled religious meeting.

Dates: 1886

Big debate tonight at Provo High School

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 112
Scope and Contents

Contains a printed broadside announcing a debate at Provo High School in Utah between the "Municipal Power Plant" and the "Utah Power and Light Co." in 1936.

Dates: 1936

Lewis K. Billings papers

 Collection — Box: 34
Identifier: MSS 7787
Scope and Contents

Contents include scrapbooks, letters, reports, and other professional papers that document Lewis K. Billings' time as mayor of Provo Utah. These consist of his campaign to be mayor, his terms in office, and his dealings during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Materials date from 1990 to 2009.

Dates: 1990-2009

Biography and family record of Cecil Grant Ash

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2930
Scope and Contents

Biography and family record of Cecil Grant Ash, 1990 where Ash recounts his experiences growing up in Lehi, Utah from the 1920s to the 1940s. He also discusses his POW experiences, including journal enteries and war poems written in the camps by U.S. soldiers

Dates: 1990

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

Biography of John and Ann Stewart

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2338
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of John Stewart, a painter, and his wife, Ann Waddle Stewart. John and Ann were Scottish converts to the Mormon Church. They migrated to Utah and later settled in Provo, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1940

Biography of John and Louise Smith Park

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1000
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of Mary's biography of her parents, but the bulk of the account is autobiographical. Mary tells of coming to Utah in 1847 including incidents en route. She tells of the early settlement of Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah including problems with Indians, crickets and grass hoppers, and the difficult living conditions.

Dates: approximately 1900

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