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Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

George S. and Algie E. Ballif papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1554
Abstract

Personal and professional papers of Algie and George Ballif including news clippings, awards, certificates, notebooks, correspondence, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the items are from the years 1960 to 1978. Many items concern George's legal career and Algie's work as a legislator.

Dates: 1911-1984

Be thou an example : the life history of Elna Ruth Bowen Johnson

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233632600]
Identifier: MSS 7853
Scope and Contents

Contains one DVD called Be Thou an Example: The Life History of Elna Ruth Bowen Johnson. Includes two discs which have discussion of her early childhood through their service on missions to the Philippines and Genealogical Library. Dated approximately 2011.

Dates: approximately 2011

Biographical sketches of the children of George Washington Bean

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345644]
Identifier: MSS 965
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographies of George Washington Bean and his children. The items were edited by Merrill D. Beal. The members of the Bean family were Mormons who lived mostly in Utah.

Dates: 1967

Biography of Anne K. Smoot

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230317395]
Identifier: MSS SC 1873
Scope and Contents

Handwritten biography of Anne Kristin Smoot and a photocopy of it. The item was written by an unnamed daughter of Anne Smoot. Anne came from Norway and married Abraham O. Smoot. The biography contains information concerning the temporal and spiritual experiences of Anne Smoot.

Dates: 1910

Biography of Sophia Lewis Jewkes

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230326495]
Identifier: MSS SC 2849
Scope and Contents

Typescript of the "History of Sophia Lewis Jewkes." The author of the item is unknown and the date of composition is uncertain. Sophia was a convert to the Mormon Church, a pioneer to Utah, and a nurse and a midwife in that state.

Dates: circa 1950

Mary E. Woolley Chamberlain : handmaiden of the Lord

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308964]
Identifier: MSS SC 1099
Scope and Contents

Bound typewritten autobiography of Mary Woolley Chamberlain. Mary lived in St. George, Kanab, Provo, and Salt Lake City, Utah. She gives detailed accounts of family life, Mormon Church activities, and events in these towns and in Utah in general from her birth to 1936 when she wrote her history. This record was compiled, typed, and put with genealogy work-sheets and photographs probably in 1981. Also included are tributes to Mary by family members.

Dates: approximately 1936-1981

Biography of Mary Ann Brown Clark

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336379]
Identifier: MSS 454
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of Mary Ann Brown Clark (1859-1962). Mrs. Dixon writes about Mary Clark, who died at the age of 103 and was thought to have been the oldest woman in Utah at that time. Mrs. Dixon relates the experiences of Mary Clark while she was living in Pleasant Grove, Panguitch, St. George, and Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1962

Cordelia Morley Cox collection of biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230333830]
Identifier: MSS 1152
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of handwritten biographical sketches of family members. Cordelia Cox writes about Emeline Whiting Cox, Emma Peterson Cox, Jemima Losee Cox, Lydia Losee Cox, Frederick Walter Cox, and Isaac Morley. Also included is Cordelia Cox's testimony to the truthfullness of the Mormon faith. She also writes about her experiences as a plural wife of Frederick Cox.

Dates: approximately 1880

Crawford-Hansen family book

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330653]
Identifier: MSS SC 3128
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The materials are biographies of members of the Crawford and Hansen families. These people were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of them lived in Rockville and Oak Creek, Utah.

Dates: 1956

John and Lenora Knight Hafen biographies

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231045888]
Identifier: MSS 1229
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographies of John Hafen and his wife, Lenora Knight Hafen, written by their children including Orval Hafen and Arthur K. Hafen. John and Lenora were Mormons living in southern Utah.

Dates: 1960-1961