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Biographies

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 3199 Collections and/or Records:

Short sketch of Alice Mitchell Steele : came to Utah, 1861

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339498]
Identifier: MSS 2496
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Alice Mitchell was born in England in 1860. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and then migrated to Utah in 1861 and settled in American Fork. She married Richard Reese Steele in 1877 and had nine children.

Dates: 1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Short sketch of David Grant, came to Utah 1847

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340587]
Identifier: MSS 2487
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. David Grant was born in Scotland in 1816, migrated to the United States, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1840. Grant lived in Nauvoo, Illinois, and moved to Utah in 1847. He later returned to England as a missionary for the Mormon Church. He died in 1868.

Dates: approximately 1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Short sketch of Margaret Maw / by Grace Candland, 1940

 File — Box 4: Series 5 [Barcode: 31197232487808], Folder: 8
Identifier: MSS 830 Series 5
Dates: 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Margaret Maw papers / Margaret Maw short stories and articles

Short sketch of Mary Shuttleworth Wild : came to Utah 1859

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340694]
Identifier: MSS 2501
Scope and Contents

This item was photocopied from a microfilm copy of a typed biography. Mary Shuttleworth was born in England in 1832 and married Joseph Wild in 1854. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migreated in Utah in 1859 where they settled in American Fork. She was a kind worman who loved her children. She died in 1902.

Dates: approximately 1935
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

A short sketch of the life of Levi Jackman

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230243864]
Identifier: MSS SC 605
Scope and Contents

Typescript copy of a life sketch originally written by Jackman in 1851 which describes his early family life in Vermont and New York. The sketch also includes journal excerpts from 1835-1847 which detail his Latter-day Saint Church missions to Ohio, the 1847 trek across the Plains and early Utah life. Also includes a typescript of notes from a sketch by S.C. Richardson about Jackman.

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

Short sketch of the life of Lydia Thornton Adams : pioneer of American Fork, Utah, 1852

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339001]
Identifier: MSS 2405
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Lydia Thornton was born in 1830 in Canada. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; and to Utah in 1852. She settled in American Fork, Utah, married Joshua Adams, had 10 children, and died in 1901.

Dates: 1934
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Short sketch of the life of Sylvanus Cyrus and Catherine Stoker Hulet

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329853]
Identifier: MSS SC 3087
Scope and Contents Phtocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten manuscript. The item is a biography of Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet and Catherine Stoker Hulet by an unnamed author on an unspecified date. "The parents of both Sylvanus and Catherine were early members of the Church. When but a young boy and girl, they too were baptized members of the L.D.S. Church. With their parents they suffered the persecutions of the early saints." Sylvanus met Joseph Smith, the first president of the Mormon Church, when he...
Dates: 1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Gabriel Schuler biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230314947]
Identifier: MSS SC 1737
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typed biography of Gabriel Schuler, an early Pennsylvania settler.

Dates: approximately 1960
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Andrew Jackson Shupe diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305655]
Identifier: MSS SC 817
Scope and Contents This is a typescript of a diary of a Mexican War soldier who served in the "Mormon Battalion." The diary was kept from 16 July 1846 to 10 Sept. 1847 with a few entries for the years 1848-1855. He was also among the first groups to enter Salt Lake Valley in July of 1847. He went to Winter Quarters in August 1847 and went to Ogden, Utah in 1852. There are numerous gaps in this diary. The entries tend to be short but some are lengthy and detailed. Two small biographies of Andrew Jackson...
Dates: 1846-1855
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

David Crockett Shupe diary and biographical sketches

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 799
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a handwritten diary and short biographies of Shupe family members. The diaries were kept from 1898 to 1901 when Shupe was serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Southern States, primarily in Tennesee, Kentucky, and Virginia.

Dates: 1898-1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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