Biographies
Found in 765 Collections and/or Records:
A brief life story of Anna Boletta Mortenson Williams Dillman / as compiled by Maria Schnebly Dillman
One volume titled, "A Brief Life Story of Anna Boletta Mortenson Williams Dillman," compiled by Maria Schnebly Dillman on March 17, 1978. Biographical story includes Anna's family history and her experiences as a woman in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Arizona. Volume also includes photographic prints of Anna and her family.
About Seander Semmons and his friends of bygone days
Photocopy of a handwritten biography composed at an unknown time. Wakefield writes about horse breaking and cattle herding in Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Montana.
Account of the Poet Caedmon
Biography of John Olney Adams (native pioneer) and his wife, Mattie Marie Peterson
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. John Olney Adams was born in American Fork, Utah, in 1861 and Mattie Marie Peterson was born in 1864 in Denmark. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah. They married in 1884. John died in 1932 in Bingham, Utah, and Mattie died in 1928.
Merle V. Adams papers
Collection contains photocopies of family scrapbook items relating to Merle V. Adams' career and family life. Also includes family biographies, Merle's filmography, copies of newspaper articles that mention Adams, and information about a hidden treasure reported to be near Kanab that Adams helped look for. Dated 1934-2014.
Advent of Karl G. Maeser
Manuscript of brief biography of Karl Maeser (5 pages), undated.
Annie Rolph Aldridge biographical papers
Typewritten life sketch from a Cardston newspaper, photograph of her family and family genealogical sheet.
William Coleman Allen biography
Photocopy of short typewritten biography. Crossed the plains to Utah with the pioneers as a child in 1847, settled with family in Mill Creek Canyon and, in 1851, in Draper. In 1876, called by Brigham Young to head the colonization of the Little Colorado River settlements in Arizona. Moved back to Draper in 1884.
Biography : Maregaret Hall Ruston Alston, came to Utah in 1850
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Maragaret Hall Rushton Alston was born in England. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated with her first husband, John Rushton, to the United States. He died in St. Louis, Missouri, and she arrived in Utah in 1850 and later settled in American Fork. She caught cold and died.
The American ancestry of Joseph Robison and his wife Lucretia Hancock
Photocopies of an unbound biography and two brief typed biographies of Joseph and Lucretia Robison, converts to the Mormon Church from New York state who settled in Utah. The large biography contains extensive genealogies of different related families.