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Pioneers

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 769 Collections and/or Records:

Biographical sketch of Mary Stubbs Hindley

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339316]
Identifier: MSS 2447
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobriography. Mary Stubbs was born in England in 1818. Mary's parents died when she was young, she married John Hindley in 1839, and she later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah and settled in American Fork.

Dates: 1881

Biographical sketches of ancestors

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233105]
Identifier: MSS SC 71
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of John Bookbinder Kelly which gives an account of his conversion to Mormonism, his emigration from England with his wife, Helena Quirk, and the creation of the Kelly Company, later know as the Kelly Book Bindery. Also includes a brief biographical sketch of Helena Quirk.

Dates: approximately 1900-1976

Biographical sketches of Joseph Ellison Beck

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230240266]
Identifier: MSS SC 396
Scope and Contents

Two typewritten histories of Joseph Beck, a Mormon pioneer and leader, written by Allen L. Beck and Eva Pearl Elder Beck.

Dates: 1966

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

Biographies of Farnes family

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8251
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of biographies and remembrances of Farnes family members. There are pages missing from the stories. Materials date from between approximately 1945 and 1975.

Dates: approximately 1945-1975

Biographies of Isabel Siddoway and Francis Armstrong

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313444]
Identifier: MSS SC 1612
Scope and Contents

One book containing 15 photographs, 2 biographies of Francis Armstrong, 2 life sketches of Isabel Siddoway Armstrong, 13 genealogy sheets, and miscellaneous items. The Armstrong biographies describe the lives of Mormon pioneers.

Dates: 1929-1979

Biographies of John H. Clifton

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230244573]
Identifier: MSS SC 566
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biographical sketch of John H. Clifton, Mormon pioneer, which tells of his emigration from England to Utah and settlement in Bear Lake Valley, Idaho. Also includes another biographical sketch giving details about his wife Hannah.

Dates: 1942

Biographies of Stephen Markham

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230240977]
Identifier: MSS SC 418
Scope and Contents

Three typewritten biographies written by John H. Hayes and George A. Hicks.

Dates: undated

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

Elizabeth Ann Spackman biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236884]
Identifier: MSS SC 274
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography which relates to the emigration of a Mormon family from Wales to the U.S. in 1871 on the steamship Nevada, and final settlement in Ogden, Utah.

Dates: undated