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Latter Day Saint women -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Agnes Smith Baxter autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342138]
Identifier: MSS 798
Scope and Contents

Handwritten three-page biography of Agnes Smith Baxter by an unknown author. Within this biography is an account by Baxter of her voyage to America in 1866. Also included is a petigree chart of Agnes' family.

Dates: 1938

Maureen Ursenbach Beecher collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2285
Abstract

The collection contains materials gathered into four main series: (1) student and research files on Mormon women's history; (2) class notes; (3) personal files reflecting university and professional committees she served on; and (4) her personal research and address files. The addendum contains research files collected Maureen Ursenbach Beecher as well as materials from an English class.

Dates: 1909-1997; Majority of material found within 1948-1997

Annie Eliza Berry journal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313634]
Identifier: MSS SC 1631
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copies of a diary. The item talks about Berry's temporal and spiritual experiences in Utah and Nevada.

Dates: 1906-1928

Biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234996]
Identifier: MSS SC 184
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographies and an autobiography. The items relate incidents in the lives of various family members. The autobiography is by Tamma Durfee Miner who writes about her conversion to the Mormon Church; experiences as a Mormon in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois; migration to Utah; and settling in Springville, Utah.

Dates: approximately 1880-1950

Elvira Egbert Carson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230235308]
Identifier: MSS SC 169
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of an autbiography "as given to H. Carson Healy, a grandson, during the summer of 1901 at Provo Bench (Orem), Utah." Carson tells Healy about joining the Mormon Church in Kentucky, facing persecutions in Missouri, migrating to Utah, and her life in Fairfield, Utah.

Dates: 1901

Anne Elizabeth Copcutt continental Tour

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230317551]
Identifier: MSS SC 1864
Scope and Contents

Photocopies and typescript of a handwritten diary including her genealogy. Copcutt describes her temporal and spiritual experiences during a trip to Europe.

Dates: 1867

Victoria C. Dallin diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230347475]
Identifier: MSS 1325
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary. Dallin writes about her early education and artistic accomplishments. She also writes about the activities of the Dallin family. There are many gaps in the record. At the end of the diary there appears to be a list of the sculpture pieces created by Dallin and gives their location.

Dates: 1879-1944

Ada Arvilla Burk Earl autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325505]
Identifier: MSS SC 2642
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography which was revised in 1937. Ada writes about her life in Farmington, Utah, attending school, importing silk worms to Utah, and local entertainment. She later moved to Springerville, Arizona with her family. Ada married John H. Earl (1855-1953), a farmer and a carpenter. She moved to Chihuahua, Mexico in 1887, to Fielding, Utah in 1902, and to Ogden, Utah in 1922.

Dates: 1937

Great reckonings in little rooms

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1831
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of Smeath's dissertaion for her PhD degree in the Department of Theatre and Cinematic Arts at Brigham Young University. The item is entitled: "Great reckonings in little rooms: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, and certian circles of association." Also included are two typewritten plays with handwritten corrections. They are entitled: "A Pride of Heretics" and "The Foreordained."

Dates: 1976-1979

Historical sketch of James Hendricks and Drusilla Dorris Hendricks

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230323070]
Identifier: MSS SC 2409
Scope and Contents

Typewritten copy of an autobiography. Drusilla married James Hendricks (1808-1870) in 1827. They joined the Mormon Church in 1835 and lived with the Mormons in Clay County, Missouri and Nauvoo, Illinois. They migrated to Utah in 1847 where they lived in Salt Lake City, Springville, and Richmond.

Dates: 1877