Autobiography of William Henry Solomon [microform] : 1895

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  Years in the sheaf: the autobiography of William Alfred Moody [microform] : 1959

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  Autobiography of George Thomas Rogers [microform]: 1950

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  Autobiography and diary of William McIntosh [microform]: c.1857-1889

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