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Biographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 3198 Collections and/or Records:

Seward Lincoln Breckenridge account book and a notebook

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325828]
Identifier: MSS SC 2716
Scope and Contents

Handwritten financial records of Breckenridge. Also included is a handwritten notebook in which biographical sketches of important historical persons of the United States and Europe was written.

Dates: 1921-1923
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Breezley, Roger, winter 1991, 1990-1991

 File — Box 181: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197239138420], Folder: 10
Identifier: UA 664 Series 2 Sub-Series 9 File 41
Dates: 1990-1991
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Marriott School of Management records / Marriott School of Management college records / Marriott School of Management subject files

Brey, Robert H., 1989

 File — Box 19: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197231007243], Folder: 11
Identifier: UA 909 Series 1
Dates: 1989
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Collection on university faculty and staff / Collection on university faculty members

Brice J. Hallows biography and photographs, 2002, approximately 1945

 File — Box 12: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 12; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005023], Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 8 File 306
Scope and Contents note Materials include a short biography of Brice J. Hallows detailing his military service with the U.S. Marines during World War II. Discusses his short training period and transfer to the Pacific Theater. Describes his relationships with fellow Latter-day Saint servicemen and the spiritual strength he received from them. Also describes his participation in the battles at Okinawa and Oroku, including stories of combat while on night patrols. Relates his brushes with death and his acts of...
Dates: 2002; approximately 1945
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (South-East Asia)

Brief biographies of the women and children of the original U.S. Mormon Battalion, Inc. 1846-48 and present day U.S. Mormon Battalion Auxiliary 1994 / compiled by Shirley N. Maynes, 1994

 Item — Box 37: Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197233644597], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 8000 Series 2 Sub-Series 1 Item 1
Dates: 1994
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association records / Mormon Battalion Association biographies of original members

Brief history of Brigham Morris Young

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230318674]
Identifier: MSS SC 1999
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of Brigham Morris Young. B. M. Young was a businessman who served two missions to Hawaii (1873-1875 and 1883) and helped organize the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations in numerous places for the Mormon Church. He married Armeda Snow who was the daughter of the fifth president of the Mormon Church, Lorenzo Snow (1814-1901).

Dates: approximately 1970s
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

A brief history of Ida Smoot Dusenberry

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233274742]
Identifier: UA SC 26
Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives

A brief history of Lydia Geneva Jones Deming

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233274759]
Identifier: UA SC 25
Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives

Brief history of Ole Christian Andreasen

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337823]
Identifier: MSS 2753
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Ole Christian Andreasen was born in 1840 in Denmark and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He migrated to Utah in 1865 and married Christiana Madsen in 1877.

Dates: 1949
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

A brief history of the life of Frederick Weight by himself

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227650519]
Identifier: MSS SC 3200
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript . Weight wrote about his early life in England and his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He migrated to the United States in 1849 and came to Utah in 1851. He settled first in Salt Lake City, Utah, where his wife died in child birth. Weight married Mary Milnes. He wrote about grasshopper troubles in 1854 and about his move to Springville, Utah, in 1856. He worked as a plasterer and a general laborer and faced...
Dates: Approximately 1895
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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