| Author | Abstract |
|---|---|
| Oesterle, Patricia Lambert | There is a letter at the beginning of this collection from Patricia dated April 21, 1978 that explains the reason that she took the time to write this autobiography. Apparently she was chosen out ... |
| Olsen, Sadie Staker | This collection consists of a diary written by Sadie Staker beginning January 1, 1893 and ending December 31, 1899. It is 112 pages long, handwritten. It is a copy of the original diary which is ... |
| Olson, Edith Jones | This collection is a ninety-five page, typed transcript of interviews conducted by her grandson. Also included in the collection is a two page typed letter from Phil Cederlof, one of Edith's neigh... |
| Mcgillycuddy, Fanny Hoyt | This journal is a day to day record of the goings on of military life while Valentine McGillycuddy was working as the field surgeon for the western army. It is 32 pages long, written on both front... |
| Brady, Anna Lindquist | This collection contains an autobiography of Anna Lindquist Brady and some loose letters and photographs. The autobiography is twenty-nine typewritten pages and is bound in a book of remembrance. ... |
| Mabey, Viola N. Brown Zumbrunnen | Viola's autobiography is part of a collection containing a diary and some receipts belonging to her father, George Brown. Her autobiography is typewritten on large sheets of paper. It is unbound ... |
| Draper, Elizabeth | This collection consists of twelve letters that Elizabeth Draper supposedly wrote to Laurence Sterne the week before she was to return to India. The letters are in manuscript form, and have been c... |
| Burgener, Clara | This collection consists of 8 typewritten pages from Clara's journal about her trip to Europe. Clara's three main reasons for taking the tour were: 1) to attend the dedication of the Mormon temple... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Howard, Elizabeth Anderson | This collection comes from the diaries of Elizabeth Howard and three of her descendants, Katherine A. Brockbank (Elizabeth's daughter), Libby Howard, and Lucas Howard. There are four b... |
| Egan, Amanda Ann Andrus | This five-page, typewritten biography is in the third folder of the Andrus family collection. This biography was written by Amanda's granddaughter, Vivian Egan Marcusen Auhder, in 1956. Someone h... |
| Guy, Lilian Joan Lockhart | This collection consists of a two-page, typed manuscript by Lilian which she sent to the Women's History Archives at Brigham Young University. The first page is entitled, 'My Testimony of Putting ... |
| Derricott, Martha | This two-page, typewritten biography was written by Edna Hansen Sheets, a great-granddaughter of Martha Derricott. It belongs to a collection of biographies mostly from the Tonks family, and is pr... |
| 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... |
| Cordon, Sally Agnes Call | The 'Sketch of the Life of Sally Agnes Call Cordon' was written by Norma H. Morris in 1941, when Sally was 82 years old. This biography is located in the third folder of a collection of papers on ... |
| Davis, Mary Ann Mitchel | The biography of Mary Ann Mitchel Davis was written by her husband and is part of a larger collection bearing his name. This collection consists of Elisha's biography, Mary Ann's biography, their ... |
| Davis, Sarah Elenor Phillips Mecham | Sarah's biography is part of a collection of Phillips family biographies. This collection is a typewritten, book-length, unbound manuscript which has a table of contents listing the people that ar... |
| Durrant, Ada Augusta Dawson Rendell | This biography, entitled 'The Legacy of the Trunk,' is a fictionalized account of Ada's life written by Verna Durrant Humphries. Ada collected important personal belongings such as photographs, le... |
| Carter, Betsy Larson | This brief, two-page autobiography is part of the 'Book of Remembrance of Mons Larson,' Betsy's father. Betsy's life sketch is in first person, and she covers her life from birth to her later year... |
| Evans, Priscilla Livingston | Priscilla received this five-year diary as a Christmas present in 1932. She wrote her first entry on January 1, 1933: 'I arrived in Washington D.C. from Salt Lake City where I went to Ann's funera... |
| Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth Senior | The collection is comprised of four folders. The transcription of Sarah Elizabeth Senior Johnson's autobiography is in fd. 2. The other folders contain biographies of the Johnson family, a phot... |
| Hunter, Salome Smith | Salome's 7 page typed biography is located in the Lamoureux Family Papers. Salome was most likely included in the collection because of her great-grandmother, Deborah Lamoureux. Salome's biograph... |
| Bitner, Martina Marjorie Halseth | This collection contains seven typed pages written by Madeline Bitner Wirthlin, the youngest daughter of Martina and Breneman Bitner. Two pages of family pictures are also included at the end of t... |
| 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 ... |
| Hopkins, Mary Edds Skinner | Mary's short 1 page typed biography is included in Charles Hopkin's papers written by Maryetta Wenney Williams Slaughter (granddaughter) and Ida Williams Robison (great-granddaughter). T... |
| Hutchings, Sarah Agnes LeBaron | Sarah's brief and partial autobiography is two pages in length. Sarah's mother told her that one night on their journey across the plains, a wild hog entered their tent and took Sarah by the shoul... |
| Haynes, Myrtle Isabella Rathjen | This collection was submitted by Myrtle for the Women's History Archives at Brigham Young University. Included are several photographs, which Myrtle labeled on the back side: they show Myrtle and ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Young, Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs | This collection contains four folders of materials by or about Zina. The first folder contains a biography of Zina. The title page states that it was written by a granddaughter, Oa J... |
| Young, Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs | This collection includes a handwritten, signed letter from Zina to her step-son Willard at West Point Military Academy and a typewritten transcript of the letter. The letter is dated ... |
| Kingsley, Mary Henrietta | This collection contains a seven page, handwritten letter written on 12 March 1895 and addressed to Rose from Mary Henrietta Kingsley. The letter contains a stamp in the left hand corner with t... |
| Stringham, Susan Coleman Henrie | This collection consists of a biography of Susan by a grandson, Gerald Henrie; two handwritten letters from half siblings of Susan to Gerald Henrie; a letter from the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and... |
| Henrie, Amanda Bradley | The biography of Daniel and Amanda Bradley is a 19-page typewritten manuscript which was complied by Amanda's great-granddaughter Callie O. Morley. For the first eight pages of the manuscript, Mor... |
| Bradley, Betsy Elizabeth Kroll | Betsy's biography is an 18-page typewritten manuscript which was complied by her great-great-granddaughter Callie O. Morley. It is entitled 'Pioneer History of Betsy Elizabeth Kroll Bradley: Pione... |
| 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... |
| Little, Mary May Clove | This collection contains a photocopy of Mary's handwritten autobiography. It is 83 pages long, and is fairly easy to read although the photocopy is very light along the right margin of the page. ... |
| Wihongi, Mary | This collection was submitted as part of the Women's History Archives at Brigham Young University. Mary said of being asked to submit her life story, 'When I was approached I was overcome with awe... |
| 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... |
| Mountain, Mary | This is a six-page typescript entitled the 'Story of Mary Mountain.' While it neglects the majority of Mary's childhood, it provides insight into her life with the Eldredges. Mary was never conside... |
| Spackman, Elizabeth Ann Evans | Elizabeth's biography is a three-page typewritten document that appears to be written by one of her nieces or nephews. She was 83 years old at the time that the biography was written. It is diffi... |
| Marshall, Sarah Goode | This collection contains a two-page sketch of Sarah's life, an eight-page typewritten transcript of the diary she kept while crossing the plains, and several songs and poems. The songs are entitle... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Lund, Elizabeth Boocock | This collection was submitted to the Women's History Archives by Elizabeth. It includes a typewritten nine-page personal history and three pages of her memories, a resume, two letters of recommend... |
| Jenkins, Ann Davis | This is a combined history of Ann Davis Jenkins and her husband, Evan Jenkins. It is a three-page typescript biography from the Margaret Steed Hess collection, written by Margaret Steed Hess, Ann a... |
| Lyman, Paulina Eliza Phelps | This collection consists of a signed, typewritten statement by Paulina describing a blessing she was given by the Prophet Joseph Smith. She said, 'I was a little girl when the Prophet Joseph came ... |
| Hendricks, Mary Addrienne Harris | Addie's autobiography is part of a collection of Harris family biographies that includes biographies for her parents and siblings. She begins her autobiography, 'St. George, Utah, November 15, 193... |
| Duke, Christina Lindsay | Christina's autobiography is a 35-page handwritten document written in a spiral bound notebook. The autobiography is legible, but is in fragile condition: several pages are coming out. Christina ... |