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	Title	Date	Type
1	[W. L. Crawford autobiography]	1935-03-22	Text
2	A brief history of the life of Mary E. Shakespear	1939-01-04	Text
3	A Brief history of Thomas Samuel Bladen	1937-01; 1938-08-16	Text
4	A short history of John Spencer and family	1938-07-22	Text
5	A Short history of the life of Andrew Jackson Workman	1936-12-09	Text
6	A Short Sketch of the life of the parents of H. T. Stolworth	1939-02-02	Text
7	A sketch of the life and labors of Charles Sreeve Peterson	1936-10-28	Text
8	A Sketch of the life and writings of S. B. Mitton	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
9	A sketch of the life of Adelia Wilson Riding	1939-05-29	Text
10	A Sketch of the life of Charles Wintch	1938-12-08	Text
11	A sketch of the life of David Benton Ott	1938-09-03	Text
12	A Sketch of the Life of Hannah Normington Ott	1938-12-03	Text
13	A sketch of the life of James B. Ott	1939-01-05	Text
14	A Sketch of the lives of George Hyrum and Mary Julia (Johnson) Wilson	1938-09-09	Text
15	A tribute to the memory of my sister [Mary Ann Parker Richards]	1936-11-13	Text
16	A. M. Starmont	1938-10-19	Text
17	Aaron R. McIntrye, pioneer personal history	1934	Text
18	Adalaide Jackson Slack	1937-09-24	Text
19	Adelbert Twitchell	1939-10-31	Text
20	Adolphia Young Duke	1938	Text
21	Agnes Ann Manning Carr	1934-12-27	Text
22	Albert Agustus Reid, Panguitch, Utah	1941-06-05	Text
23	Alexander Jameson, born 1859	1941-01-09	Text
24	Alonzo Winters	1939-06-12	Text
25	Alvaretta Farozine Robinson	1938-08-05	Text
26	Amada Polly Savage Cook	1936	Text
27	Amelia Niederer	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
28	Amos Pease Stone	1937-02-12	Text
29	An early pioneer: James Baker	1897-06-24; 1941-04-28	Text
30	An interview with George Smith, brother of Ralph Smith, the first boy born in Logan	1938-11-05	Text
31	An interview with John Rozsa	1938-12-05	Text
32	An interview with Mr. James Anderson	1938-12-04	Text
33	An interview with Mrs. Artemesia Draper Anderson	1938-11-16	Text
34	An Interview with Mrs. James Quale	1938-08-16	Text
35	An Interview with Mrs. Martha Roberts	1938-08-17	Text
36	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
37	Andrew Oman	1938-08-02	Text
38	Ann Cannon Woodbury, pioneer and home builder	1936-11-12	Text
39	Ann Eliza Pehrson, Ephraim, Utah	1939-01-08	Text
40	Ann Elizabeth Melville Bishop	1936	Text
41	Anna Evans Stratton, born 1868	1941-01-09	Text
42	Annie [that is, Ammi] R. Jackman	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
43	Annie Coleman McMillan	1938	Text
44	Annie Elizabeth Laub Canfield	1938-11-28	Text
45	Annie Johansen	1939-06-06	Text
46	Answers to Pioneer personal history questionnaire, Jordan H. Brady	1938-07-18	Text
47	Answers to pioneer personal history, Mrs. Mary Louise Wintch	1938-09-06	Text
48	Arland A. Pike	1940-06-12	Text
49	Autobiography by Mrs. J. C. Jones	1934; 1937-09-29	Text
50	Autobiography of Daniel S. Pendleton, Utah pioneer	1938-08-10	Text
51	Autobiography of Edward Bunker	1941-09-29	Text
52	Autobiography of John Staheli	1939-09-15	Text
53	Autobiography of Milo Andrus	1875-01-09	Text
54	Autobiography of Thomas J. Jones	1934; 1937-06-02	Text
55	Autobiography of William John Hill	1949-04	Text
56	Autobiography of William Mendenhall	1905; 1906	Text
57	Autobiography: a short sketch of the life of Ann Prior Jarvis	1934; 1937-05-26	Text
58	B. F. Larsen	1938-07-20	Text
59	Barbara Staheli Graff Stucki	1937-09-24	Text
60	Ben Forsythe	1936-07-14	Text
61	Biographical sketch of Ann Morris Butler Rice	1941-04-26	Text
62	Biographical sketch of Emily Miller Jones	1934; 1937-01-04	Text
63	Biographical sketch of Flora Bingham Taylor	1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
64	Biographical sketch of Harriet Heath Marler	1938-02-09	Text
65	Biographical sketch of James A. Hovey	1936	Text
66	Biographical sketch of Matilda Peterson Atkinson, mother of Rose A. Young of the Perry camp	1936	Text
67	Biographical sketch of the life and adventures of George Washington Gill Averett	1937-04-22	Text
68	Biographical sketch of the life of Casper Gubler	1935-08-01	Text
69	Biographical sketch of the life of Emma Cotter Tucker	1939-09-05	Text
70	Biographical sketch of the life of Jacob Christensen and family	1938-07-14	Text
71	Biography of Addison Everett, father of Schuyler Everett	1936-12-27	Text
72	Biography of Charilla Abbott Browning	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941	Text
73	Biography of Hannah Isabell Fawcett Nixon	1937-03-15	Text
74	Biography of Isaac Hunt	1936-01-06	Text
75	Biography of James L. Bunker, founder of Veyo, Utah	1941-10	Text
76	Biography of John Park, father of Joseph Park	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
77	Biography of Lenora Farr Pardoe	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
78	Biography of Mary Ann Hale Riding	1936-12-23	Text
79	Biography of Mary Jane Oliver	1937-01-13	Text
80	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
81	Biography of my father [Paul C. Christiansen]; Autobiography of Emma Lina Strand Christensen	1937	Text
82	Biography of my Grandfather [William Spendlove]	1937-01-14	Text
83	Biography of Schuyler and Rachel Everett	1936-11-19	Text
84	Biography, Eliza Adelaide Dolbell	1934	Text
85	Biography, Marriner Stoddard Eccles	1937-11-19	Text
86	Bradshaw, Mary Ann Elsey, 1828-1871; Bradshaw, Samuel, 1822-1897	1934	Text
87	Brief biography of Elizabeth Moore Bleak	1934	Text
88	Brief biography of Samuel K. Gifford	1941-09-03	Text
89	Brief from an illustrated paper on the life of John Hafen	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939	Text
90	Brief history of Alice Morrill, a Utah author, teacher, and mother	1940-08-08	Text
91	Brief history of Annie D. Judd	1939-07-08; 1941-06-11	Text
92	Brief history of Isaac H. Burgess	1936-10-14	Text
93	Brief history of Sarah Jane Snyder Dickinson	1939-06-27	Text
94	Brief sketch of the life of Ebenezer Bryce	1938-11-21	Text
95	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
96	Brough, Samuel, 1839-1911	1938-08-08	Text
97	C. C. A. Christensen	1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915	Text
98	C. D. Saxton	1939-06-12	Text
99	Capt. William H. Wall	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
100	Captain Pauline Weaver	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
101	Caroline Lamb Slack	1937-09-24	Text
102	Charles E. Rowan	1939-04-12	Text
103	Charles Mazel, pioneer personal history	1936	Text
104	Charles South	1938-10-21	Text
105	Chauncy L. Leavitt, pioneer personal history	1936	Text
106	Civilian Winters	1939-06-19	Text
107	Clarissa Jane Drollinger Moore biography	1938-07-22	Text
108	Copy of the blessing of Ann B. Dennis Peterson	1936-10-29	Text
109	Crispin Taylor	1938-10-06	Text
110	Dalton, Sarah Annie, 1859-1941	1936	Text
111	David H. Cannon, Jr.	1938-12-05	Text
112	David James Shakespear	1938-07-06	Text
113	David John, born 1867	1941-02-14	Text
114	David N. Murdock	1938	Text
115	De Los Myers	1938-07-18	Text
116	Delilah Jane Warner Peterson	1938-08-01	Text
117	Deseret Warren Robert	1938-07-18	Text
118	Details of the life of Samuel Heber Kimball, Utah pioneer	1938-03-15	Text
119	Diana Bingham-Smith's courtship days	1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
120	Dominicus Carter	1940-09-19	Text
121	Early history of Charles Twelves and family	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
122	Early history of James Kearl	1938-09-21	Text
123	Early life of Jesse Knight	1941-03-03	Text
124	Edward Hunter Snow	1936-09	Text
125	Edward Stevenson	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
126	Edwin, Evans, artist	1938	Text
127	Elijah Everett	1938-08-09	Text
128	Elijah Isadora Wilson	1938-08-31	Text
129	Elisha Wilbur	1938-05-12	Text
130	Elizabeth Brewer Barrows	1940	Text
131	Elizabeth Guy Farnsworth, pioneer woman of Beaver County, Utah	1936-10-19	Text
132	Ellen George BIrd	1937-02-22	Text
133	Ellis Mendenhall Sanders (grandfather of Jane E. Moody)	1937-01-14	Text
134	Emily Ellen Brough	1938	Text
135	Emily Hodgetts Lowder	1938-03-26	Text
136	Emily James Roberts	1936-12-14	Text
137	Emma Wilde Carruth	1939-06-14	Text
138	Ephraim Hall	1939-01-10	Text
139	Erastus Perry Bingham: How Bingham Canyon received its name	1937-10	Text
140	Ethan L. Brown	1938	Text
141	Eugene L. Morrill	1940-08-08	Text
142	Experiences related by Mrs. Laurine R. Liljenquist	1938-12-23	Text
143	Fanny Young Clyde Wall	1938; 1939	Text
144	Felix G. Murphy Sr.	1938-10-06	Text
145	Form of Utah historical buildings erected prior to 1870	1938	Text
146	Frank Lamont Miller	1938-07-16	Text
147	Fred Meissner, pioneer personal history	1936	Text
148	Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890	1940-04-03	Text
149	From an interview with Mrs. Anthon L. Skanchy, Sept. 8th 1938	1938-09-08	Text
150	Fulton J. Brenton	1940-04-16	Text
151	Funeral of Isaac Manning : services for venerable servant in Prophet's household held Sunday	1911-04-17	Text
152	Genealogy of Elijah Norman Freeman	1931-01-03	Text
153	Geo. William Underwood	1938-08-04	Text
154	George C. Ellet	1937; 1938; 1939; 1940	Text
155	George D. Robb	1938-07-19	Text
156	George Downard	1938-07-08	Text
157	George Lionel Farrell	1936	Text
158	George Thomas Peay	1938-08-01	Text
159	George W. Hepburn	1938-10-22	Text
160	George W. Marler, Sr.	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
161	Gone to rest: Sarah Lovell	1934	Text
162	Grandpa Gardner : [Mathew Anderson Gardner]	1940-01-29	Text
163	Hand cart pioneer interview, Hannah Madsen Aldrich	1938-03-31; 1938-06-01	Text
164	Hanna Choppell Reese	1939-06-05	Text
165	Hannah J. Hunsaker-Payne	1938-09-01	Text
166	Heber J. Grant	1940-04-24	Text
167	Heber Naegle	1937-09-27	Text
168	Henry Excell	1938-08-17	Text
169	Hinton, Noble Joshua, 1871-1956	1934	Text
170	Historical sketch given by James H. Jennings	1934; 1937-10-26	Text
171	Historical sketch of Alice Ann Langston Dalton's life	1934; 1937-09-22	Text
172	Historical sketch of Brigham Dalton	1934	Text
173	Historical sketch of John Johnson, Millville, Utah	1936-11-03	Text
174	Historical sketch of the life of Hamilton Wallace	1937-09-23	Text
175	Historical sketch of the life of Henry Gubler	1935-08-01	Text
176	Historical sketch of the life of Joseph Gubler	1934	Text
177	History of Benjamin Lynn Mathews	1939-06-19	Text
178	History of Christanna Dixie Lloyd	1939-10-31	Text
179	History of David Newton Mangum	1939-03-17	Text
180	History of Ebenezer Hanks, Utah pioneer of 1847	1936-06-10; 1938-08-02	Text
181	History of Eliza Jane VanLeuven Merrill	1938-12-22	Text
182	History of grandmother Cynthia Vail Benson	1936-12-05	Text
183	History of Grandpa's life: James J. Adams	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text
184	History of Hannah Brandon Shakespear	1939-07-10	Text
185	History of Harriet M. Cliff and family	1938-07-30	Text
186	History of Herbert Samuel Gleave	1939-06-17	Text
187	History of James Allen Leishman	1936-10-23	Text
188	History of John H. Davis and the early settlement of Cannonville	1938-05-26	Text
189	History of John King	1939-05-19	Text
190	History of John Roy Lee, A.B.	1939-08-29	Text
191	History of John W. Mangum	1939-02-20	Text
192	History of Johnathan Heaton	1939-05-19	Text
193	History of Joseph Smith Moffat	1938-09-06	Text
194	History of Leonard Sargent	1939-07-08	Text
195	History of Maria Delight Dickinson Shakespear	1939-07-18	Text
196	History of Mary Ann Peterson Stevens	1936-10-28	Text
197	History of Mr. Lias Winn	1941-07-29; 1941-07-30	Text
198	History of Mrs. Sarah L. Rudge	1941-08-14	Text
199	History of my mother, Anna Bosch Turner	1936-11-17	Text
200	History of Nancy Elizabeth Bethers Smith	1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942	Text

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