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Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Utah -- Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

The Andrus recorder

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308550]
Identifier: MSS SC 1068
Scope and Contents

"The Andrus Recorder," vol. 1 no. 1, Oct. 1964. The "Recorder" was dedicated to family news, history, and genealogy. This item includes an autobiography of Milo Andrus (1814-1893) composed in 1875. Milo was a Mormon pioneer, missionary, and colonizer who eventually settled in St. George, Utah.

Dates: 1964

Biographical materials on Milo Andrus

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313436]
Identifier: MSS SC 1611
Scope and Contents

Notes, typescripts, photocopied sources, and miscellaneous items relating to the biography of Milo Andrus (1814-1893). Milo was a Mormon pioneer, missionary, and colonizer who eventually settled in St. George, Utah.

Dates: 1844-1979

Biographies of Utah pioneers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230327030]
Identifier: MSS SC 2685
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographies of Utah pioneers. The volume was compiled by Dorothy Alvey Muhlestein. It is listed as "volume 5." Most of the subjects of the biographies were Mormons who settled in Utah. Also included is a history of Camp Manavu of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers.

Dates: 1953

Biography of Henry Mower Sr.

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306513]
Identifier: MSS SC 886
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a photocopy of a typewritten biography of Henry Mower. Mower was a Mormon pioneer who settled in Springville, Utah.

Dates: 1950

William Butler autobiographies and letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306224]
Identifier: MSS SC 863
Scope and Contents This collection consists of autobiographies and personal letters. Included are four personal histories of varying lengths. Butler described his visions, business matters, family relationships, church assignments, missions served, and recounted many colorful experiences including hunting down and killing the murderer of one of his children. The letters were written by William Butler and his first wife, Emma Harvey, to their Henry Harvey Butler in 1891-2 while Henry was serving on a mission to...
Dates: 1850-1905

Franklin Raymond Farr autobiography

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8907
Scope and Contents Contains the original handwritten life story of Franklin Raymond Farr. Includes autobiographical information about Farr from his birth in Ohio in 1837 to his later years in Spanish Fork, Utah, and memories of Farr written by his granddaughter Florence Cook. Also includes poems written by Farr on several occasions throughout his life, with topics including Pioneer Day and other celebrations, Biblical stories for teaching Sunday School, Joseph Smith and other Mormon religious topics, and...
Dates: approximately 1900

Hammond family biographies and diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 834
Scope and Contents This collection consists of typescripts of biographies and histories of members of the Hammond family and their ancestors. The biography of Jasper Melvin Hammond (1882-1958) was written "by his wife and daughters" sometime after his death. Jasper, often called Jesse, was born in Providence, Utah but was raised in Marysville, Idaho. He worked in hotels in Yellowstone Park, for a railroad, and as a farmer.A typescript of the diary of Milton D. Hammond (1831- ) for the years...
Dates: approximately 1856-1960

Harris family biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306810]
Identifier: MSS SC 902
Scope and Contents

Biographies of Harris family members written by their descendants. Included are three Harris family pedigree charts. The collection contains biographies of Charles Harris (1834-1916), his wife Louisa Hall Harris (1839-1924), their parents and their children. Charles and Louisa settled first in Toquerville, Utah and later in Parowan, Utah.

Dates: 1930-1960

Henrie family biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306489]
Identifier: MSS SC 873
Scope and Contents This collection consists of biographies of Henrie family members, correspondence of Myra Mayall Henrie (d.1893), a Henrie family bulletin (June 1959), four photographs of Henrie family members, and biographies of Robert (1823- ), and Elizabeth Johnston (1825- ) by Alice J. Nielson. Nielson also wrote the biography of Amanda Bradley Henrie (1829-1903). The Myra Henrie correspondence deals with family matters and was written between 1868 and 1879.All the subjects of these...
Dates: 1868-1976

Lola Hutchings letter and family group sheets

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306141]
Identifier: MSS SC 852
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a letter to LeGrand Baker (Archivist at BYU Archives) which is a biography of the author's husband's grandfather, Alonzo Harrington LeBaron. Mrs. Hutching's information for this account was derived from notes written by Sarah Agnes LeBaron Hutchings and from a short history Sarah dictated to her grandson Theodore Bohn. Also included are two family group sheets of the Alonzo LeBaron Families (he had two wives) and a pedigree chart of his ancestors.

Dates: 1975