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Latter Day Saint women -- Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Charles Joseph and Laura Elizabeth Webb Logie

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340348]
Identifier: MSS 2457
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a dual biography. Charles Joseph Logie was born in 1856 in Carson City, Nevada. His parents had earlier joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His family soon came to Utah and settled in American Fork. Laura Elizabeth Webb was born in England in 1857 and soon migrated to Utah with her family. They also settled in American Fork. Charles and Laura were married in 1879. She died in 1923, and he died in 1930. The author also tells about...
Dates: 1935

Elizabeth Boocock Lund papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308378]
Identifier: MSS SC 1049

Biography of Margaret Walker Macklin

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340868]
Identifier: MSS 2679
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Margaret Walker Macklin was born in England in 1842. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, migrated to Utah about 1868, married Thomas Macklin in 1875, and died 1927.

Dates: 1944

Biography : Sophia Crooks McNeill

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337013]
Identifier: MSS 2699
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. McNeill was born in Scotland in 1827 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with her parents. She came to Utah in 1850, married John McNeill in 1852, and settled in American Fork. She left her husband when he took a second wife. She died in 1899.

Dates: 1944

Memories of an Army nurse in World War II, 1944-1945

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341189]
Identifier: MSS 2609
Scope and Contents

Typed autobiography. Ora Mae Sorensen was born in 1922 in Taylor, Texas and married Edmond Preston Hyatt in 1945. Many letters addressed to family memers have been typed into the autobiography which largely describes her military service as a nurse. She served mainly in the Pacific area.

Dates: 2002

In memorium

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331966]
Identifier: MSS SC 3229
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of an printed brochure. The item includes an "autobiographical sketch" which Annie dictated to her son, Albert E. Bowen. Annie tells about her early life in England, her joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1851, her migration to Utah in 1861, and her move to Samaria, Idaho, in 1876. Also included is a copy of the funeral services for Annie in 1929.

Dates: 1929

Cyrena Dustin Merrill autobiography

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2180
Scope and Contents

Autobiography by Cyrena Dustin Merrille, including her experience joining the Mormon Church in 1837, time spent in Far West, Missouri, Nauvoo, Illinois, Winter Quarters, Nebraska, and her migration to Salt Lake City, Utah. She describes the impact of a measles outbreak among Ute Indians in Salt Lake City in 1851, and an 1876 move to Arizona with her family. Also included is a genealogy of the Merrill family. Dated 1898 to 1907.

Dates: 1898-1907

Life of Ane Nielsen Mickelsen

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330067]
Identifier: MSS SC 3041
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten biography. Cawood writes about Ane Nielsen Mickelsen (1825-1909). Mickelsen was born Ane Nielsen in Denmark. She heard about the Mormon Church from Erastus Snow and came to Salt Lake City, Utah. She later lived in Cedar City and Parowan, Utah, and married Rasmus Mickelsen.

Dates: approximately 1950

Mormon enigma : Emma Hale Smith, prophet's wife, "elect lady," polygamy's foe

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230217538]
Identifier: MSS 1734
Scope and Contents

Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. The item is an early draft of "Mormon Enigma" which length was later reduced as requested by the publisher, Doubleday & Company. The manuscript is a biography of Emma Hale Smith, first wife of the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith.

Dates: 1984

Biographies of Francis Young Morse and Elizabeth Thomas

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340850]
Identifier: MSS 2680
Scope and Contents

This item was photocopied from a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Elizabeth Thomas was born in England in 1830 and Francis Young Morse was born in 1834 in Massachusetts. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and were married about 1859. They came to Utah in that same year and went to St. George, Utah, in 1861. Francis died in 1912 and Elizabeth died four days later in the same year.

Dates: 1944