Guide to Women's Manuscript Collections

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Rawson, Eliza Jane Cheney Eliza's autobiography is part of a collection of biographies on the Cheney family. It is five typewritten pages long and was written in March of 1919. There is a note at the end of the manuscript...
Rawlinson, Eliza Lucina Moore Eliza's memoirs are found within the history she wrote in 1962 as a tribute to her mother Almeda Harmon Moore. Also included in the collection are other histories Eliza wrote about her ancestors: ...
Rock, Elsie May Holgate Elsie's personal history was written in 1978 for the Women's History Archives request. As a child, Elsie 'loved the Lord' and enjoyed singing in the church choir where she performed 'Olivet to Cal...
Cordon, Emma Parker Emma's biography is among a collection of papers on the Alfred Cordon family, and it is located in the third folder of the collection. Her biography is four pages long and is a stapled photocopy o...
Holbrook, Eunice Dunning Eunice's brief biography is written by Alsina Elizabeth Brimhall Holbrook, the wife of Lafayette Hinckley Holbrook, grandson of Chandler and Eunice Holbrook. The information included in this biogr...
Morse, Eva Eva's diary covers events in her life from May 5, 1859 and October 18, 1859. It is 34 pages, typed, kept as she traveled west with a large group of people'friends and family. They started on the Il...
McNiven, Lydia Littlefield The fifth and final folder in the collection contains biographical information relating to Lydia Littlefield McNiven. The folder has short biographies for many members of the Tonks family. Lydia's ...
Sheets, Martha Tonks The fifth and final folder in the collection contains biographical information relating to Martha Tonks Sheets. The folder holds short biographies for many members of the Tonks family. Information ...
Jones, Louisa Tonks The fifth folder in the collection contains biographical information relating to Louisa Tonks Jones. The folder also holds short biographies for many members of the Tonks family. The portion of th...
Tucker, Rebecca Althura Tonks The fifth folder in the collection contains biographical information relating to the life of Rebecca Althura Tonks Tucker. The folder contains short biographies for many members of the Tonks family...
Berger, Violet Evelyn Tonks The fifth folder in the collection contains biographical information relating to Violet Evelyn Tonks Berger. The folder holds short biographies for many members of the Tonks family. The section con...
Welch, Martha Jane Tonks The fifth folder of this collection contains biographical information for several members of the Tonks family including Martha Jane Tonks Welch. It consists of four typed pages written by Martha i...
Abbott, Delila Richards The first collection (MSS SC 1646) is comprised of one folder, which contains photocopies of four newspaper articles dated 1954, 1957, 1960, and 1962. The 1954 article announces Abbott's election to b
Washburn, Flora Clarinda Gleason Johnson Flora's nine-page, typewritten biography was authored by her daughter Lorena Eugenia Washburn Larsen. Included in the collection is a biography of Abraham's first wife, Tamar, which was also writt...
Clayton, Elizabeth Tonks Folder 5 of the collection contains biographical information relating to Elizabeth Tonks Clayton. The folder contains includes short biographies for many members of the Tonks family. Elizabeth's bi...
Tonks, Martha Derricott Folder 5 of the Tonks Family collection is the one which contains biographical information relating to Martha Derricott Tonks. The folder holds short biographies for many members of the Tonks famil...
Knight, Hattie M. Hattie M. Knight has divided her family biography into five chapters entitled work, food, school, recreation and home. Consequently, there is little chronological order throughout t...
Carter, Hannah Knight Libby The history is clear, insightful and well-written, consisting of seven typed pages. The author of the history is unknown. However, a letter from Wilford A. Payne to Bro. LeGrand Baker, dated Dece...
Snow, Eliza Ann Carter The history is clear, insightful and well-written, consisting of seven typed pages. The author of the history is unknown. The history is a biography of Eliza's mother Hannah Knight Libby Carter bu...
Mitchell, Elizabeth Ann Blyth The history is twelve pages long and legibly handwritten except in a few places where the print has faded making it difficult to read. It was written by Elizabeth's daughter Pear M. Boyce and dated...
Petersen, Mary Mortensen The history of Mary and Niels Petersen was written by their son Joseph Lorenzo Petersen. The biography is 19 typed pages. After her marriage and settlement in Arizona, the family raised cows and ...
Dusenberry, Ida Smoot The Ida Smoot Dusenberry papers are found in one box containing thirteen folders. Articles found in the collection include: short biographies about her; correspondence from family, sc...
Monson, Helen Campbell In this collection is a typed three-page, double-spaced autobiography of Helen Campbell Monson. It tells of the major events in her life: where she was born, where she grew up, where she went to ...
Hayward, Ruth Hughes The information about Ruth's life is contained in 'Family Life Stories: William George Baker,' a family history compiled by Ruth Baker Thompson. The man mentioned in the title of the history, Willi...
Berry, Isabelle Maria Harris Merrill Nelson Isabelle's biography is part of a collection of Harris family biographies. The collection was donated by Belle Harris and contains pedigree charts and biographies of Isabelle's parents, siblings, ...
Arrington, Janell Ravsten Janell Arrington's autobiography consists of 9 typewritten pages. She shares stories of her childhood in Clarkston, Utah, a farming community, and she also writes of her education, family, and ...
Stookey, Jemima Elizabeth Child Jemima 's autobiography was published by her descendants, Paul and Gwenevere Stookey, who also wrote a small introduction to it. The autobiography is twenty-six pages long and the writing style...
Poulson, Jessie Brooks Jessie's 72 page biography is bound in book form and entitled, 'History and Memories of Henry and Jessie Poulson,' compiled by their daughter Mercedes Poulson Anderson in December 1976. Included a...
Brooks, Juanita Leavitt Pulsipher Juanita's brief biographical sketch and journals are included in the Pulsipher Family Papers collection. The collection includes family records dating as far back as 1708, with David Pulsipher who...
Coray, Julia A. Julia A. Coray's diary is part of a larger collection of Frank Homer Roberts' diaries from 1909'1944. Julia's diary is written in pencil in a small ledger book. The pages are not numbered, and sh...
Mickelsen, Laura Ingemann Laura's biography is a three-page typewritten document included in a collection entitled 'Early Recollections of Logan.' The author, Joel Ricks, interviewed early settlers of Logan and compiled th...
Harris, Louisa Hall Louisa's biography is part of a collection of Harris family biographies that includes biographies for her husband and all of her children. Louisa's biography was written by her son Silas Albert ar...
Bell, Lucy Payne Lucy's brief biography is included in a collection of biographical materials related to the Payne family. Her biography is only one typewritten page which chronicles important events in Lucy's lif...
Maw, Margaret Petersen The Margaret Petersen Maw collection consists of six boxes and eight scrapbooks. The first box contains three records of the First District Federation of Women's Clubs, which includes handwritten ...
Young, Margaret Pierce Whitesides Margaret Pierce Whitesides Young wrote her autobiography in December 1903. She spent her life mixing with many leaders of the Mormon Church and relates several experiences that help...
Park, Margaret Wilson Margaret submitted her autobiography in 1978 while living in South Africa. The manuscript is two pages long, handwritten in blue ink. It also includes a black and white original photo of Margar...
Wilson, Margaret Campbell Margaret was an amazing example of faith and persistence. When she was only nine years old, Margaret went to work in a cotton mill to help her family survive. She married very young, and had to d...
Blyth, Margaret Mitchell Stubbart Margaret's brief biography is included in the Mitchell Family Biographies written by Pearl Elizabeth Mitchell Boyce, a granddaughter. The biography is a copy of seven handwritten pages describing ...
Foy, Margaret Ann Payne Margaret's two-page, typewritten biography is included in a collection of biographical materials related to the Payne family. It was compiled and written by her children in 1964. This brief biogr...
Burgess, Mariah Pulsipher Mariah's biography is a five-page, typewritten document contained in a collection of biographies from the Huntington Chapter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Her biography was written by a grand...
Tuttle, Marne Whitaker Marne's autobiography is 17 pages in length and typed for smooth reading. The literary style is written mostly in the 3rd person which may confuse the reader on authorship. However, th...
Girod, Therese Morel The marriage contract for Therese and John and the receipt of funds are part of a large collection of Bunot Family Papers. There are fifty folders in the collection, two of which contain materials...
Cox, Martha Cragun Martha 's autobiography was written in 1929. It begins with a genealogical introduction and stories of her parent's lives in Illinois. Martha tells of the persecutions and trials he...
Brower, Martha Ann Barker Bateman Martha's brief biography is included in an 18 page collection of biographies for the family of her father Alfred Great Barker (1795-1873). The collection includes biographies, obituaries, and pict...
Snow, Mary Ann Vorhees Mary Ann's biography is part of a collection of items relating to her husband, Warren Snow. Her biography is found in the first folder of the collection; this folder also includes a biography of W...
Chamberlain, Mary Elizabeth Woolley Mary Chamberlain's autobiography is hardbound with typescript pages, making it easy to read and follow. The contents are memories, so at times the writing jumps and rambles, but her...
Hendricks, Mary Jane Andrus Mary Jane's biography is included in a collection of Andrus family biographies. Her biography is three pages long and is typewritten on fragile paper. Some corrections have been made on the manus...
Edwards, Mary Barker Mary's autobiographical account of her life is part of a collection containing information on the Alfred Great Barker family. Mary's autobiography is a typewritten account which Hazel B. Bott comp...
Rich, Mary Ann Elizabeth Stokes Mary's biography was most likely written by Ellen R. Clark, a daughter. It is included in the Rich family history collection. Mary suffered and endured many hardships of the early pioneers. Whil...