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Adelaide Delannoy Booth biographical sketch

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    Biographical sketch of Hans Hansen

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    Brief biographical sketch of Hans Hansen (1862-1953) by his daughter, Gertrude Hansen Standage. Traces significant events in Hansen's life, including the early death of his mother and his upbringing by his grandmother, with whom he sold vegetables to make a living; his 1879 move to Arizona with his father; his 1885 marriage to Loretta Ellsworth in St. Geroge, Utah; and his 1902-1904 Mormon mission to Denmark. Also includes an account of Hansen avoiding hostile Indians to deliver a letter to Fort Apache and a brief description of Standage's grandparents, the Ellsworths (parents of Loretta Ellsworth).

    mssHM 72843

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    Dennis F. Hanks biographical sketch of Abraham Lincoln's childhood

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    Autograph manuscript signed. Note by Lincoln's cousin, beginning "This Biographical Sketch is written by request of an old friend." With cabinet card photograph of Hanks, 1891. (1 page)

    HM 15608

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    Biographical Material

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    Five items which consist of two different resumes, a two page biographical sketch, a Times Mirror Management Bulletin and a head shot.

    mssLAT

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    William T. Sherman autograph corrected proof of biographical sketch

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    Autograph additions and corrections on proofsheets for Appleton's Encyclopdia of American Biography biographical sketch of William T. Sherman. Bound with William T. Sherman correspondence, 1876-1886, mssHM 20837-20839; portraits of Sherman, clippings, and ephemera.

    mssHM 657

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    Biographical sketch of Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner

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    This is a typescript copy of a biographical sketch of Mary Elizabeth Rollins Lightner written by her granddaughter Elsie E. Barrett. Barrett covers her grandmother's life from her early childhood to her settlement in Minersville, Utah in 1863. It describes Lightner's early conversion to Mormonism, which in 1830 came at an early stage in the development of the religion. The subjects covered include persecutions, frontier and pioneer life, and the Haun's Mill Massacre (Mo.), 1838. People discussed in the typescript include Joseph Smith (1805-1844) and Heber Chase Kimball (1801-1868)

    mssHM 66419

  • Biographical sketches and diary of Isaac Chauncey Haight [microform]: 1850-1943

    Biographical sketches and diary of Isaac Chauncey Haight [microform]: 1850-1943

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    Microfilm of typed biographies on and diary entries made by Isaac Chauncey Haight. Opens with a biography of Haight by William R. Palmer entitled "Men You Should Know: Isaac C. Haight" (typescript of a radio talk given by Palmer over K.S.U.B. in Cedar City, Utah, on July 18, 1943); "The Old Virgin Ditch," a poem by Mable Jarvis; and a brief account entitled "Thales Haskell describes the Tragedy of death of George A. Smith fall 1860." The majority of the reel is the Biographical Sketch and Diary of Isaac Chauncey Haight, 1813-1862, a typescript copied by Brigham Young University in 1940. It includes a brief biography of Haight as well as his diary entries for his 1850-1853 mission to England (including accounts of his overland travel to and from Utah) and some various diary entries made in Utah from 1853-1862. Also includes an index of names and family photographs.

    MSS MFilm 00367 item 02