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	Title	Date	Type
1	A brief history of the life of Mary E. Shakespear	1939-01-04	Text
2	A short history of John Spencer and family	1938-07-22	Text
3	A Short history of the life of Andrew Jackson Workman	1936-12-09	Text
4	A Short Sketch of the life of the parents of H. T. Stolworth	1939-02-02	Text
5	A sketch of the life and labors of Charles Sreeve Peterson	1936-10-28	Text
6	A Sketch of the life of Charles Wintch	1938-12-08	Text
7	A sketch of the life of David Benton Ott	1938-09-03	Text
8	A Sketch of the Life of Hannah Normington Ott	1938-12-03	Text
9	A tribute to the memory of my sister [Mary Ann Parker Richards]	1936-11-13	Text
10	Aaron R. McIntrye, pioneer personal history	1934	Text
11	Adalaide Jackson Slack	1937-09-24	Text
12	Adelbert Twitchell	1939-10-31	Text
13	Adolphia Young Duke	1938	Text
14	Alexander Jameson, born 1859	1941-01-09	Text
15	Alonzo Winters	1939-06-12	Text
16	Alvaretta Farozine Robinson	1938-08-05	Text
17	Amos Pease Stone	1937-02-12	Text
18	An interview with George Smith, brother of Ralph Smith, the first boy born in Logan	1938-11-05	Text
19	An interview with John Rozsa	1938-12-05	Text
20	An interview with Mr. James Anderson	1938-12-04	Text
21	An Interview with Mrs. James Quale	1938-08-16	Text
22	An Interview with Mrs. Martha Roberts	1938-08-17	Text
23	Ancestral sketches and memoirs of Mary Julia Johnson Wilson of Hillsdale, Garfield County, Utah, with part one, ancestral sketches, life sketches of my great grandparents, Ezekiel and Julia Hills Johnson	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
24	Ann Cannon Woodbury, pioneer and home builder	1936-11-12	Text
25	Ann Eliza Pehrson, Ephraim, Utah	1939-01-08	Text
26	Ann Elizabeth Melville Bishop	1936	Text
27	Annie [that is, Ammi] R. Jackman	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
28	Annie Coleman McMillan	1938	Text
29	Annie Elizabeth Laub Canfield	1938-11-28	Text
30	Annie Johansen	1939-06-06	Text
31	Answers to pioneer personal history, Mrs. Mary Louise Wintch	1938-09-06	Text
32	Autobiography by Mrs. J. C. Jones	1934; 1937-09-29	Text
33	Autobiography of Daniel S. Pendleton, Utah pioneer	1938-08-10	Text
34	Autobiography of Edward Bunker	1941-09-29	Text
35	Autobiography of John Staheli	1939-09-15	Text
36	Autobiography of Milo Andrus	1875-01-09	Text
37	Autobiography of Thomas J. Jones	1934; 1937-06-02	Text
38	Autobiography of William Mendenhall	1905; 1906	Text
39	Barbara Staheli Graff Stucki	1937-09-24	Text
40	Ben Forsythe	1936-07-14	Text
41	Biographical sketch of Emily Miller Jones	1934; 1937-01-04	Text
42	Biographical sketch of Flora Bingham Taylor	1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
43	Biographical sketch of James A. Hovey	1936	Text
44	Biographical sketch of the life and adventures of George Washington Gill Averett	1937-04-22	Text
45	Biographical sketch of the life of Casper Gubler	1935-08-01	Text
46	Biographical sketch of the life of Emma Cotter Tucker	1939-09-05	Text
47	Biographical sketch of the life of Jacob Christensen and family	1938-07-14	Text
48	Biography of James L. Bunker, founder of Veyo, Utah	1941-10	Text
49	Biography of John Park, father of Joseph Park	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
50	Biography of Mary Ann Hale Riding	1936-12-23	Text
51	Biography of Mary Jane Oliver	1937-01-13	Text
52	Biography of Mary Keele Jolley and early day facts of Utah	1941-11-20; 1941-11-21; 1941-11-22; 1941-11-23; 1941-11-24; 1941-11-25; 1941-11-26; 1941-11-27; 1941-11-28; 1941-11-29; 1941-11-30; 1941-12-01; 1941-12-02; 1941-12-03	Text
53	Biography of my father [Paul C. Christiansen]; Autobiography of Emma Lina Strand Christensen	1937	Text
54	Biography of my Grandfather [William Spendlove]	1937-01-14	Text
55	Biography of Schuyler and Rachel Everett	1936-11-19	Text
56	Biography, Eliza Adelaide Dolbell	1934	Text
57	Bradshaw, Mary Ann Elsey, 1828-1871; Bradshaw, Samuel, 1822-1897	1934	Text
58	Brief biography of Elizabeth Moore Bleak	1934	Text
59	Brief biography of Samuel K. Gifford	1941-09-03	Text
60	Brief from an illustrated paper on the life of John Hafen	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939	Text
61	Brief history of Annie D. Judd	1939-07-08; 1941-06-11	Text
62	Brief history of Isaac H. Burgess	1936-10-14	Text
63	Brief history of Sarah Jane Snyder Dickinson	1939-06-27	Text
64	Brief sketch of the life of Ebenezer Bryce	1938-11-21	Text
65	Brief sketch of the life of Hyrum Leany	1941-11-06; 1941-11-07; 1941-11-08; 1941-11-09; 1941-11-10; 1941-11-11; 1941-11-12; 1941-11-13; 1941-11-14; 1941-11-15; 1941-11-16; 1941-11-17; 1941-11-18; 1941-11-19	Text
66	Brough, Samuel, 1839-1911	1938-08-08	Text
67	C. C. A. Christensen	1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915	Text
68	Capt. William H. Wall	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
69	Charles South	1938-10-21	Text
70	Chauncy L. Leavitt, pioneer personal history	1936	Text
71	Civilian Winters	1939-06-19	Text
72	Clarissa Jane Drollinger Moore biography	1938-07-22	Text
73	Crispin Taylor	1938-10-06	Text
74	David H. Cannon, Jr.	1938-12-05	Text
75	David James Shakespear	1938-07-06	Text
76	Details of the life of Samuel Heber Kimball, Utah pioneer	1938-03-15	Text
77	Dominicus Carter	1940-09-19	Text
78	Early history of Charles Twelves and family	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
79	Early history of James Kearl	1938-09-21	Text
80	Early life of Jesse Knight	1941-03-03	Text
81	Edward Stevenson	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
82	Elisha Wilbur	1938-05-12	Text
83	Elizabeth Guy Farnsworth, pioneer woman of Beaver County, Utah	1936-10-19	Text
84	Ellis Mendenhall Sanders (grandfather of Jane E. Moody)	1937-01-14	Text
85	Emily Ellen Brough	1938	Text
86	Emily Hodgetts Lowder	1938-03-26	Text
87	Emily James Roberts	1936-12-14	Text
88	Emma Wilde Carruth	1939-06-14	Text
89	Ephraim Hall	1939-01-10	Text
90	Erastus Perry Bingham: How Bingham Canyon received its name	1937-10	Text
91	Ethan L. Brown	1938	Text
92	Fanny Young Clyde Wall	1938; 1939	Text
93	Frank Lamont Miller	1938-07-16	Text
94	From an interview with Mrs. Anthon L. Skanchy, Sept. 8th 1938	1938-09-08	Text
95	Genealogy of Elijah Norman Freeman	1931-01-03	Text
96	Geo. William Underwood	1938-08-04	Text
97	George D. Robb	1938-07-19	Text
98	George Lionel Farrell	1936	Text
99	George Thomas Peay	1938-08-01	Text
100	Gone to rest: Sarah Lovell	1934	Text
101	Grandpa Gardner : [Mathew Anderson Gardner]	1940-01-29	Text
102	Hand cart pioneer interview, Hannah Madsen Aldrich	1938-03-31; 1938-06-01	Text
103	Hanna Choppell Reese	1939-06-05	Text
104	Heber Naegle	1937-09-27	Text
105	Historical sketch given by James H. Jennings	1934; 1937-10-26	Text
106	Historical sketch of Alice Ann Langston Dalton's life	1934; 1937-09-22	Text
107	Historical sketch of Brigham Dalton	1934	Text
108	Historical sketch of John Johnson, Millville, Utah	1936-11-03	Text
109	Historical sketch of the life of Hamilton Wallace	1937-09-23	Text
110	History of Christanna Dixie Lloyd	1939-10-31	Text
111	History of David Newton Mangum	1939-03-17	Text
112	History of Ebenezer Hanks, Utah pioneer of 1847	1936-06-10; 1938-08-02	Text
113	History of Eliza Jane VanLeuven Merrill	1938-12-22	Text
114	History of grandmother Cynthia Vail Benson	1936-12-05	Text
115	History of Hannah Brandon Shakespear	1939-07-10	Text
116	History of James Allen Leishman	1936-10-23	Text
117	History of John W. Mangum	1939-02-20	Text
118	History of Joseph Smith Moffat	1938-09-06	Text
119	History of Maria Delight Dickinson Shakespear	1939-07-18	Text
120	History of Mr. Lias Winn	1941-07-29; 1941-07-30	Text
121	History of my mother, Anna Bosch Turner	1936-11-17	Text
122	History of Nancy Elizabeth Bethers Smith	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
123	History of Orson Smith in the home of Mrs. Lucy Smith Cardon	1936-11-03	Text
124	History of Provo, Lafayette Holbrook	1941-02-18	Text
125	History of Richard Henry Spencer and family	1938-07-22	Text
126	History of Sage Treharne Jones	1942	Text
127	History of the life of Phebe Hanna McMillian Bethers, wife of William Samuel Bethers	1934	Text
128	History of Thomas Bingham, Sr. and Thomas Bingham, Jr.	1934	Text
129	History of William Adams, written by himself	1894-01; 1937-03-23	Text
130	History of William Samuel Bethers	1923; 1934	Text
131	Hon. Hector Wieler Haight	1938	Text
132	Incidents in the life of Elizabeth Brown Later, as told by her granddaughter	1936-12-20	Text
133	Incidents in the lives of Thomas Price Smith and Mary Dugard Smith, as recalled by their daughter Lydia Ann Smith Johnson	1938-07-13	Text
134	Individual family record, Pauline Bluemell Hoffman	1938-09-23	Text
135	Interesting instances in the lives of my husband's parents, told by Rosina Beacham	1934	Text
136	Interview between Mrs. Brooks and Mrs.Higbee, June 19, 1935	1935-06-19	Text
137	Interview between Mrs. Webb and Harmon Gubler	1935-06-30	Text
138	Interview of Francis George Wall, pioneer	1937-07-27	Text
139	Interview of Frederick Reber	1937-09-27	Text
140	Interview with Almira Leoma Stewart, an early Utah pioneer	1938-11-04	Text
141	Interview with Bishop William R. Davis, a life long resident of Wales, Utah	1938-06-16	Text
142	Interview with J. P. Griffin	1938-08-25	Text
143	Interview with Mary Eliza Coombs Draper of Fountain Green, Utah	1938-12-24	Text
144	Interview with Moses Thatcher Jr.	1936-08-11	Text
145	Interview with Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Funk of Sterling, Utah, Sanpete County	1939-01-03	Text
146	Interview with Mr. Abraham Edward McIntosh	1938-09-09	Text
147	Interview with Mr. Joseph S. Otteson of Birch Creek, near Fountain Green, Utah, Sanpete County	1938-12-17	Text
148	Interview with Mrs. Clara Alice Robinson Allred at Spring City, Utah, Sanpete County	1939-02-09	Text
149	Interview with Mrs. H. C. Jensen Bogh of Fountain Green, Utah	1938-12-21	Text
150	Interview with Mrs. Lydia Puzey at Spring City, Utah	1939-02-03	Text
151	Interview with Mrs. Mary Delina Draper Taylor of Freedom, Utah	1939-01-24	Text
152	Interview with Nancy Brooks Burton	1938-07-13	Text
153	Isaac Chauncey McFarlane	1937-01-13	Text
154	Isaiah Cox	1938-11-22	Text
155	Israel Nielson	1939-02-02	Text
156	J. F. Hansen	1938-08-06	Text
157	J. H. Campbell	1936; 1939-02-21	Text
158	James Andrus history	1936-09-03	Text
159	James Austin Cope	1938-08-05	Text
160	James E. Daniels	1939-08-09	Text
161	James Herman Tegan	1939-01-23	Text
162	James Houston	1938-07-19	Text
163	James Humphries biography	1934; 1937-02-09	Text
164	James K. Pierpont	1938-07-21	Text
165	James T. Ivie	1936	Text
166	Jane Elizabeth James	1934	Text
167	Jane Patterson Brough	1942-08-07	Text
168	John F. Wright	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937	Text
169	John Hanson	1940-01-30	Text
170	John L. Gunn	1939-06-15	Text
171	John Moburn Kay	1934	Text
172	John Mose Browning	1937	Text
173	John Ormond	1939-02-20	Text
174	John P. Lee	1934	Text
175	John Rowlandson Robinson	1938-07-22	Text
176	John W. Crook	1938; 1940-12-31; 1941-01-20	Text
177	John Wyatt	1936	Text
178	Johnathan Wilbur Green	1940-01-31	Text
179	Joseph Edgar Heywood	1938-11-16	Text
180	Joseph H. Smith	1941-04-30	Text
181	Journal of Wm. Scarce	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
182	Julia Ann Wright Petty, Pioneer personal history	1934; 1935	Text
183	Leany family history as written from memory by William Leany	1934; 1937-03-17	Text
184	The life history of Henrietta Sinfield Price	1935-03-14	Text
185	Life history of Jane L. Sprunt Warner Garner	1935-07-14; 1939-08-04	Text
186	Life history of Phillip Bessom Lewis, my father	1934	Text
187	Life history of Thornton Hepworth	1937-01-11	Text
188	Life of Benjamin Lillywhite, Utah pioneer	1939-04-20	Text
189	Life of Caroline Beck Knight	1936-12-28	Text
190	Life of Catherine Walker	1940-01	Text
191	Life of George Gifford Weston	1938-09-12	Text
192	Life of John D. Burt	1906-05-10; 1939-05-29	Text
193	Life of Lovinia Normington Wright	1936-10-13	Text
194	Life of Mary Ann Duffin Beatty	1934	Text
195	The life of my father, John Parker, from memory	1936-07-29	Text
196	The life of Samuel Thompson	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
197	Life of William Budge	1934; 1936-10-16	Text
198	Life sketch of Amanda Melvina Fisk	1940-11	Text
199	Life sketch of Brigham Jarvis	1936-12-27	Text
200	Life sketch of Edward Dalton	1934	Text

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