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Biographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2699 Collections and/or Records:

Copp, Joseph, 1877-1930, approximately 1950-1959

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232486420]
Identifier: MSS 827

Coray, Martha Jane Knowlton, approximately 1875-1975

 File — Box 45: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197231240638], Folder: 15
Identifier: UA 566 Series 3 Sub-Series 2 File 77
Scope and Contents

Contains biographical sketch of Coray with excerpts from her diary. Also contains a copy of "Martha Jane Coray and the History of Joseph Smith by His Mother."

Dates: approximately 1875-1975

Alfred S. Cordon biography on Ralph Purl Cordon

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231045474]
Identifier: MSS 6252
Abstract

The collection is a ten page biography of Ralph Purl Cordon written by his son Alfred S. Cordon which relates to the family, professional, and church life of Purl Cordon.

Dates: 1987

Cottam, Walter P., 1916-1963

 File — Box 44: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231006997], Folder: 10
Identifier: UA 909 Series 1

Biography of Edward Covington

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338508]
Identifier: MSS 2789
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Covington was born in England in 1826. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1857 where he settled in Salt Lake City. He married Emma Pickering and died in 1919.

Dates: 1958

Biography of Elizabeth Hodges Covington

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338516]
Identifier: MSS 2788
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Elizabeth Hodges Covington was born in England in 1793. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1852. She married Berrill Covington in 1812 and had 11 children. Much of the narrative is an account of the company with which she came to Utah. It was taken from the Record of Church Emigration 1849-1857, vol. 2. She settled in American Fork, Utah, in 1854. She died in 1881.

Dates: 1958

James P. Cowley biography of Sarah Houston Pratt Taussig

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233626859]
Identifier: MSS 7783
Scope and Contents

Contains a biography of Sarah Houston Pratt Taussig (1822-1886), which was written by James P. Cowley, who is Sarah's great-grandson. The biography mainly covers her family life, first as a polygamous wife of Parley P. Pratt, then after Pratt's death as wife of A. Lewis Taussig, and the experiences she had throughout her life as a member of the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dates: 2011

Cordelia Morley Cox collection of biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230333830]
Identifier: MSS 1152
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of handwritten biographical sketches of family members. Cordelia Cox writes about Emeline Whiting Cox, Emma Peterson Cox, Jemima Losee Cox, Lydia Losee Cox, Frederick Walter Cox, and Isaac Morley. Also included is Cordelia Cox's testimony to the truthfullness of the Mormon faith. She also writes about her experiences as a plural wife of Frederick Cox.

Dates: approximately 1880

Cox, George B., 1873-1952, approximately 1950-1959

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232486420]
Identifier: MSS 827

Crandall, Agnes Lewis, date of production not identified

 File — Box 45: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231007003], Folder: 17
Identifier: UA 909 Series 1