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Latter Day Saint women -- Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

Personal history of Frances Parrish Barlow

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230328897]
Identifier: MSS SC 3022
Scope and Contents Details her childhood in Centerville, Utah; attendance at University of Utah and Utah State University; work as a schoolteacher; marriage; travels; church service, including a Latter-day Saint welfare mission to Oklahoma, 1977-1978; and teaching at BYU. Includes original poetry; significant information about her husband, Joel C. Barlow, their children, and other family members; and photographic images. Also includes autobiographical sketches of her parents, Parley P. Parrish and Elizabeth...
Dates: 1990

Pioneer Margaretta Lemon King : came to Utah in 1847

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340355]
Identifier: MSS 2456
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Margaretta Lemon King was born in Indiana in 1839. Her family soon joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and they migrated to Utah in 1847. She married Robert Edison King at age 16 in 1855, and they moved to American Fork, Utah, in 1856. Margaretta had 10 children and died in 1922.

Dates: 1937

Belinda Marden Pratt papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230328459]
Identifier: MSS SC 2868
Scope and Contents

Letter to Belinda from her husband, Parley P. Pratt, written from San Francisco in January 1855, focusing on family concerns; and a fifteen-page autobiographical sketch written by her, dated 1884 on page one and 1889 on page eleven. Also includes an undated biographical sketch of Belinda written by Parker Pratt Robison, based on her autobiographical account. Her account discusses her conversion to Mormonism, church service, and marriage to Parley P. Pratt.

Dates: 1855-1889

Biography of Robert Proctor and biography of Ellen Gardner Proctor

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523718]
Identifier: MSS 2821
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Ellen Gardner was born in American Fork, Utah, in 1861. She married Robert Proctor in 1883, and they had twelve children. She died in 1941. Robert Proctor was born in 1857 in American Fork, Utah, and he died in 1921. Both were faithful members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Dates: 1958

Biography of Lydia Ester Hall Pulley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336874]
Identifier: MSS 2705
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Lydia Ester Hall Pulley was born in 1854 in England and migrated to Utah in 1860. She married James Pulley in 1874 and moved to American Fork, Utah.

Dates: 1944

Dorothy Cabris Peay autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341254]
Identifier: MSS 2617
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Dorothy Cabris was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1924, served as a nurse for the United States Army from 1944 to 1945, and married Richard V. Peay in 1945.

Dates: 2000

Biography of Elizabeth Ellen Adams Robinson

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523726]
Identifier: MSS 2822
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Elizabeth Ellen Adams Robinson was born in 1860 in American Fork, Utah. She married William A. Robinson in 1879. She lived in Bingham Canyon, Utah, and American Fork, Utah, for most of her life. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and died in 1948.

Dates: 1958

Biography of George Robinson and wife Sarah Holt

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337559]
Identifier: MSS 2744
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. George Robinson was born in 1800 in England. Sarah Holt was born in 1804 also in England. They were married in 1824. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, migrated to Utah in 1852, and settled in American Fork. George died in 1884, and Sarah died in her eighty-fifth year.

Dates: 1944

Biography of Hannah Laycock Robinson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230337054]
Identifier: MSS 2706
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Robinson was born in 1860 in England. She migrated to Utah in 1863 and settled in American Fork. She married William Robinson and later married Daniel R. Rhodes.

Dates: 1944

O. Preston Robinson book drafts

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230217959]
Identifier: MSS 1735
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of typewritten book drafts. The materials are drafts of unpublished books entitled: "Mormons, a Distinctive People: What Propells the Rapid Growth of this unique Religion," "Who was Jesus of Nazareth? Lord God, Jehovah of the Testament," and "Lights and Shadows in the Lives of Oliver Preston Robinson and Christine Hinckley Robinson."

Dates: 1981-1985