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Biographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Prudence Bourne Dean, wife of Samuel Dean

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339191]
Identifier: MSS 2418
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Prudence Bourne was born in 1854, the first white child to be born in American Fork, Utah. She married Samuel Dean in 1871 and had 10 children. She died in 1932.

Dates: 1938

Biography of Samuel Dean : pioneer, came to Utah in 1863

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339209]
Identifier: MSS 2417
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed autobiography. "Taken from notes written by himself. Read by: June Shelley Wright Feb. 10, 1938." Dean was born in 1851 in England. After his family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he migrated to Utah in 1863 and settled in American Fork. He married Prudence Bourne in 1871, and they had 10 children. He died in 1934.

Dates: 1938

Biographical sketch of James Boyer Shelley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340306]
Identifier: MSS 2462
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. James Boyer Shelley was born in England in 1792 and later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1851 and settled in American Fork where he died in 1870.

Dates: 1935

Biographical sketch of William Boyer Shelley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340538]
Identifier: MSS 2463
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. William Boyer Shelley was born in 1819 in England, married Jane Dunn in 1845, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1849. He migrated to the United States in 1851 and came to Utah in 1852 where he settled in American Fork. He died in 1868.

Dates: 1935