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Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Anna Wheeler Harris, Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0184
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a typed reminiscence, "Lord Tennyson as I Knew Him," told by Mrs. Anna Wheeler Harris, 1917. The three-page manuscript describes Harris’s impression of Alfred Tennyson and some of her experiences working as a governess to his children. Also included is a half page of biographical information about Anna Wheeler Harris and her immediate family.

Dates: 1917, 1976

John Cyprian Stevens, Memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0172
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of "The autobiography of a civil engineer by John Cyprian Stevens, 1876-1960" written by the University of Nebraska alumnus in 1959-1960. The autobiography spans from his childhood memories to his military service, college days at UNL, his career as an engineer, and much in between.

Dates: 1876-1960

Minnie Calhoun Splinter, Memoir

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0037
Scope and Contents

Photocopied typescript of family memoirs relating to homesteading in Nebraska after 1887. About 400 pages.

Dates: undated