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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2092 Collections and/or Records:

Robert John Evans papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8244
Scope and Contents Collection contains 738 slides taken by Robert John Evans between 1965 and 1985. Majority of slides are photographs taken while on Travel Study Tours with Brigham Young University to places such as Europe and Mexico. Other slides demonstrate the performance of science experiments. Materials include 39 pages of handouts from Brigham Young University Travel Study Tours. Collection also includes journals of both personal and professional nature, materials from Evans' LDS mission to South...
Dates: 1918-1997
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William H. Evans autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306869]
Identifier: MSS SC 920
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography. Evans was born and raised in Springville, Utah. He went to the Utah Agricultural College and taught school in Utah and Wyoming. He moved to California where he worked as a salesman and as a businessman. He gives many details relating to his early life and to his business activities.

Dates: 1975
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Sarah Ann Gillins Eyre autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325471]
Identifier: MSS SC 2639
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Eyre writes about her childhood and her migration to the United States from England in 1854. She relates her experiences crossing the contintent to Utah as a pioneer.

Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Ezra H. Allen , 1966-1997

 File — Box 37: Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197233644597], Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 8000 Series 2 Sub-Series 1 File 7
Scope and Contents

Newspaper articles (photocopies) about Ezra Heely Allen's death and the monuments erected to remember him and the Mormon Battalion, biographical sketches of Allen and copy of article "Ezra Allen's Gift of Gold," life sketch and autobiography of his wife, Sarah Beriah Fiske Allen Ricks, family group record print-out, and family group sheet. Materials dated 1966 to 1997.

Dates: 1966-1997
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association biographies of original members

Fall colors trip, 1997

 File — Carton 23: Series 4; Series 5, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6154 Series 4 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents note

5 Copies, "Fall Colors" LDS Church History Tour information packet. Invoice, BYU printing office.

Dates: Other: 1997
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Donald Q. Cannon faculty and family papers / Donald Q. Cannon professional organizations and activities / Donald Q. Cannon papers on Mormon History Association

Family Foundation of America records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1610
Scope and Contents Business records of Kenneth Dale Wells' Family Foundation of America. Includes an autobiography and biographical material of Wells and his wife Ruth, speeches, photographs, professional files, retirement papers, and extensive research files on individuals. Professional files include meeting minutes, reports, project files, publicity , and correspondence. Also includes some material on Freedoms Foundation. Largely focuses on the international activities of the Family Foundation. Central...
Dates: 1977-1992
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Family history of Joan M. Luckett

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313998]
Identifier: MSS SC 1600
Dates: 1979
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Autobiography and biographies of Stephen and Eliza Lewis Farnsworth

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230334614]
Identifier: MSS 1136
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a typewritten autobiography and typewritten biographies. Stephen and Eliza Lewis Farnsworth lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, Utah, and Arizona. Eliza L. Farnsworth Gilbert writes about her early life in Jerrico, Joseph City, Salt Lake City, and Roosevelt, Utah. The date of the composition of these items is uncertain.

Dates: 1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Franklin Raymond Farr autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8907
Scope and Contents Contains the original handwritten life story of Franklin Raymond Farr. Includes autobiographical information about Farr from his birth in Ohio in 1837 to his later years in Spanish Fork, Utah, and memories of Farr written by his granddaughter Florence Cook. Also includes poems written by Farr on several occasions throughout his life, with topics including Pioneer Day and other celebrations, Biblical stories for teaching Sunday School, Joseph Smith and other Mormon religious topics, and...
Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Fay S. Parker materials, 2001-2006

 File — Box 54: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 12; Series 14 [Barcode: 31197231012870], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 1 File 1153
Scope and Contents Materials contain histories of laundry quartermasters from World War II, as well as the memoir of Fay S. Parker. Discuss Parker's service in the U.S. Army during World War II. He discusses serving as a quartermaster with the mobile laundry units. The histories discuss the laundry unit’s responsibilities of cleaning uniforms and hospital bedding. Parker tells of being combat capable and effectively defending themselves on several occasions. Two audiocassettes of an interview with Parker are...
Dates: 2001-2006
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army

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