DOCSLIB.ORG

(Utah). Probate Court Land Title Certificates, 1851-1895

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
(Utah). Probate Court Land Title Certificates, 1851-1895 Salt Lake County (Utah). Probate Court Land Title Certificates, 1851-1895 Series #PC-001 Processed by: Ronda Frazier Date Completed: February, 2009 Salt Lake County Records Management & Archives 4505 South 5600 West West Valley City, Utah 84120 E-mail: [email protected] Salt Lake County (Utah). Probate Court. Land Title Certificates. Series #PC-001 Overview of Records Creator: Salt Lake County Probate Court Title: Land Title Certificates Dates: 1851-1895 (bulk 1871-1873) Series Number: PC-001 Quantity: 46 boxes (45 Manu Legal, 1 Manu Half), 20.5 cubic ft. Abstract: Certificates of Land Title issued to Utah settlers, by the Probate Court of Salt Lake County, establishing legal title to their land under an Act of Congress entitled, “An Act for the relief of the Inhabitants of Cities and Towns upon the Public Lands, approved March 2, 1867.” Agency History The Probate Court was established with the creation of Utah as a territory in 1851. Federal law gave territorial probate courts the power to deal with matters of estates of deceased persons and the guardianship of the estates of minors and the incompetent. In 1852, the Territorial Legislature gave the Probate Court jurisdiction over civil, criminal, and chancery matters. The court could also act as an appellant court to the Justice of the Peace Courts within the county, and all Probate Court proceedings could be appealed to the District Court. Estate cases handled by the Court included probate and guardianship matters. These included adoptions after the legislature first made provisions for adoption as a legal process in 1884. Civil cases included primarily divorce, debt, replevin, damages, delinquent tax collections, contract and property disputes, and evictions. Criminal cases included murder, larceny, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and contempt of court charges. The Court also recorded incorporations and disincorporations. Land title claims and hearings were handled by the Probate Court under a process established by the Legislature in 1869. In 1874, the federal Poland Act revoked the jurisdiction of the Probate Court over all but divorce and probate cases. In 1887, the federal Edmunds-Tucker act revoked Probate Court jurisdiction in divorce cases. The Probate Court consisted of the Probate Judge and the Clerk of the Probate Court. The Probate Judge was elected by the Territorial Legislature and commissioned by the Governor until 1874 when the judge was publicly elected to a two-year term. In the case of a vacancy, the governor could appoint a judge until the legislature met and elected someone. In 1888, the federal Edmunds-Tucker Act made the office subject to appointment by the President of the United States. Prior to 1880, the clerk was appointed by the Probate Judge, but in 1880 the County Clerk was made an elected position with a two- year term. 2 Salt Lake County (Utah). Probate Court. Land Title Certificates. Series #PC-001 In 1896, with statehood, the Probate Court was abolished. (From Agency History #959, Utah State Archives) Probate Judges: Elias Smith, 1852-1884 Elias Asahel Smith, 1884-1889 John A. Marshall, 1889 George W. Bartch, 1889-1893 Jacob B. Blair, 1894-1895 History of Land Ownership in Utah During the 19th century the federal government pursued a policy of transferring land in the public domain to private ownership as rapidly as possible. This policy was designed to encourage western expansion. Federal laws governing land distribution were already in place before Utah settlement. At settlement, Brigham Young and the territorial government established a system of land distribution, which is documented by territorial land records, but which did not comply with federal laws. For the first 22 years after settlement, land ownership was based on Utah territorial land policies. The Utah Territorial Assembly governed land ownership in Utah and established methods of surveying and acquiring title. These practices and the documents they created were recognized in Utah Territory, but did not provide Utah settlers with federally recognized legal title to land. Reconciliation between the territorial and federal land distribution systems required Congressional legislation to establish a land office in Salt Lake City, integrate Utah Territory into the national land system, and provide relief to the inhabitants of cities and towns on the public domain. The federal government opened a land office in Salt Lake City on March 9, 1869. Relief for the Inhabitants of Cities and Towns Prior to opening the land office, Congress addressed the issue of providing legal title to the owners of town lots in already surveyed towns. In March 1867 Congress passed an “Act for the relief for the inhabitants of cities and towns on the public domain.” This act provided that a mayor (for incorporated towns) or the county probate judge (for unincorporated towns) should enter town site lands at the land office and purchase them for the benefit of all inhabitants. Congress further specified that the territorial legislature should prescribe rules by which these lots would be disposed to individuals. Pursuant to this law, the Utah Territorial Legislature established regulations for disposing of town site lands. Within 30 days after making the entry, the judge or mayor was to give public notice and advertise the land he had entered. Every person, association, or corporation claiming to be a rightful owner of any part of this land was required within six months to present a claim to the probate court. In cases of adverse claims, the probate judge was required to “decide according to justice in the case,” and when claims were undisputed, to determine the validity of the claim. The probate judge or mayor was then required to issue a certificate authorizing a deed to be recorded. Excerpts taken from Utah State Archives’ Research Guide:“Original Land Titles in Utah Territory.” See http://archives.utah.gov/research/guides/land-original-title.htm for complete text of this guide. 3 Salt Lake County (Utah). Probate Court. Land Title Certificates. Series #PC-001 Scope and Content Note The Land Title Certificates series, 1851-1895 (bulk 1871-1873), contains documents relating to the federally recognized distribution of land in Salt Lake County under an Act of Congress entitled, “An Act for the relief of the Inhabitants of Cities and Towns upon the Public Lands, approved March 2, 1867.” Sub-series I, Land Title Certificates and Supporting Documents, contains land title certificates issued to Utah settlers by the Probate Court of Salt Lake County establishing legal title to their land. It also contains supporting documents related to each claim. This sub-series is arranged alphabetically by landowner name (spelling of names is based on the signature on the application) then by plat, block, and lot. Folders may contain some or all of the following documents: the application or declaratory statement of claimant; applications of adverse claimants; notices to parties to appear before the Probate Court; affidavits and depositions; court orders; the written judgment of the Probate Judge; Certificate of Land Title; single entry adjudication notes; and occasionally other supporting documents such as divorce decrees, tax notices, deeds, and receipts. Sub-series II, Applications/Declaratory Statements without Certificates/Judgments to Document Ownership, contains applications and declaratory statements found without a certificate of land title or a written judgment to prove ownership. Folders are arranged alphabetically by claimant. Sub-series III, Adjudication Lists, contains handwritten lists of adjudications arranged in chronological order and sub-series IV contains miscellaneous documents. Notes: There are two numbers listed on the bottom, left-hand corner of the land title certificate. The top number is the certificate number while the bottom number is the statement number found on the application or declaratory statement, notice to appear, and within the written judgment. The statement number is also used to find the entries in the Land Claim Record Books. Cross references found in the container list are used for people who are included as a second name on a certificate (when filed under the first person’s name) or for those who have withdrawn their application and/or signed the property over in favor of someone else. They also reference heirs, widows, and any name changes occurring during the process. Included in the finding aid is a second listing of property owners sorted geographically by plat, then by block, then by individual lots. This enables the researcher to view ownership of each lot on a block. 4 Salt Lake County (Utah). Probate Court. Land Title Certificates. Series #PC-001 Administrative Information Access Restrictions: None Use Restrictions: None Preferred Citation: Certificate of Land Title to (name of land owner), Number (certificate number); Box (number), Folder (number); Land Title Certificates, 1851-1895; Salt Lake County Probate Court; Salt Lake County Records Management & Archives, West Valley City, Utah. Provenance: Transferred from the Utah State Archives in 2001. Related Records: Land Claim Record Books, Series PC-010 (10 reels of microfilm and the original nine volumes) Contains four volumes of recorded declaratory statements, three volumes of recorded certificates of adjudication, and Probate Court Docket A with Index to Docket A. Series Description Sub-series I. Land Title Certificates and Supporting Documents (Arranged alphabetically by landowner name) Sub-series II. Applications/Declaratory Statements without Certificates/Judgments to Document Ownership (Arranged alphabetically by claimant name) Sub-series III. Adjudication Lists (Arranged chronologically) Sub-series IV. Miscellaneous Documents 5 Salt Lake County (Utah). Probate Court. Land Title Certificates. Series #PC-001 Sub-series I. Land Title Certificates and Supporting Documents Name Lot(s) Block(s) Plat Cert. # Stmt. # Box Folder Adams, Barnabus L. (Estate) 1, 2, 3 & 4 12 B 518 665 1 1 Julia Ann Adams, Administrator Adams, Barnabus L. (Estate) 1 13 B 2298 2834 1 2 Joseph W. Young & Julia A. Adams, Administrators Adamson, Thomas 2 4 D 2355 2725 1 3 Adamson, Thomas 2 19 F 2403 2896 1 4 Adkins, George F.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Development of Municipal Government in the Territory of Utah
    Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 1972 The Development of Municipal Government in the Territory of Utah Alvin Charles Koritz Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Mormon Studies Commons, and the Political Science Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Koritz, Alvin Charles, "The Development of Municipal Government in the Territory of Utah" (1972). Theses and Dissertations. 4856. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4856 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive All Theses and Dissertations 1972 The evelopmeD nt of Municipal Government in the Territory of Utah Alvin Charles Koritz Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Mormon Studies Commons, and the Political Science Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Koritz, Alvin Charles, "The eD velopment of Municipal Government in the Territory of Utah" (1972). All Theses and Dissertations. 4856. http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4856 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORY OF UTAH A Thesis Presented to the Department of Political Science Brigham Young University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts by Alvin Charles Koritz August 1972 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author sincerely wishes to acknowledge the assistance and encouragement given to him by the following people: Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • Non-Mormon Presence in 1880S Utah
    The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School College of Earth and Mineral Sciences THE WASP IN THE BEEHIVE: NON-MORMON PRESENCE IN 1880S UTAH A Thesis in Geography by Samuel A. Smith c 2008 Samuel A. Smith Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science August 2008 The thesis of Samuel A. Smith was read and approved1 by the following: Deryck W. Holdsworth Professor of Geography Thesis Adviser Roger Downs Professor of Geography Karl Zimmerer Professor of Geography Head of the Department of Geography 1. Signatures on file in the Graduate School. iii Abstract Recent studies have reconsidered the Mormon Culture Region in light of its 1880{1920 transition to American political and economic norms. While these studies emphasize conflicts between the Mormon establishment and the non-Mormon federal government, Mormon/non-Mormon relations within Utah have received little direct attention. Based on religious affiliations recorded in the 1880 federal census of Utah Territory, this study uses historical GIS to visualize the composition of Utah's \Mormon" and \non-Mormon" towns. The results highlight the extensive presence of religious minorities in Utah's settlements. Case studies of farm villages, mining camps, and urban neighborhoods probe the social and economic contexts of non-Mormon presence in Utah. These studies, based on Sanborn maps and city directories, explore the geographical mosaic of Mormon and non-Mormon residence and business activity. These variegated patterns, often absent from historical accounts of the region, enable localized analyses of the ensuing decades of cultural conflict, transformation and assimilation. Keywords: Mormons, non-Mormons, Mormon Culture Region, Utah, 1880 Cen- sus, historical demography.
    [Show full text]
  • Rescuers of the Willie Willie Collection of Biographical Sketches Mormon Pioneers and Rescuers the a : Rescuers Arriving October 2, 1847
    442 CHARLES FRANKLIN DECKER Born: 21 June 1824 Phelps, New York (near Palmyra) Age: 32 Rescuer Affectionately known as “Uncle Charlie,” Charles F. Decker’s obituary in March of 1901 honored him by stating that “his deeds will live after him” and that his dramatic life experiences and “narrow escape from death in a hundred different forms would fill a volume.” At the age of 12, Charles’s family was living in Ohio when they were taught the gospel by missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Decker family became a group of 1,500 converts who were baptized and joined the Church in 1836. Their lives became ones of repeated sacrifice as they labored on the Kirtland Temple in Ohio, gathered with the Saints in Missouri and Nauvoo, and suffered persecution and expulsion from each of these places. Charles and his family were with a group of people who observed Joseph and Hyrum Smith as they kissed their families goodbye and left Nauvoo for their martyrdom. After being driven from Missouri and as a young teenager, Charles worked as a mail rider in Dublin, Indiana, in order to help support his beleaguered family. He also worked for three years on riverboats. He spoke of this period of his life as having taught him to “be tough, and to keep my ears open, my eyes skinned, and my mouth shut.” Charles was also tutored by the likes of Orrin Porter Rockwell and Kit Carson. During the Nauvoo years, Charles began to court Brigham Young’s 2nd oldest daughter, Vilate.
    [Show full text]
  • In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde: Subsequent Dedications of the Holy Land
    BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 47 Issue 1 Article 3 1-1-2008 In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde: Subsequent Dedications of the Holy Land Blair G. Van-Dyke LaMar C. Berrett Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Recommended Citation Van-Dyke, Blair G. and Berrett, LaMar C. (2008) "In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde: Subsequent Dedications of the Holy Land," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 47 : Iss. 1 , Article 3. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol47/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Van-Dyke and Berrett: In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde: Subsequent Dedications of the Hol In the Footsteps of Orson Hyde Subsequent Dedications of the Holy Land Blair G. Van Dyke and LaMar C. Berrett† tanding atop the Mount of Olives just prior to sunrise is a singular S experience. Often there is a stillness about the spot that evokes deep thought and contemplation. Eyes are drawn across the brook-carved val- ley toward the Holy Mount where the temple stood in antiquity. Reflecting upon sacred events that unfolded in the Holy City is the natural result of standing on the Mount of Olives, particularly certain events in the life of Jesus and the ministries of Melchizedek, Abraham, Isaac, Isaiah, Lehi, Jeremiah, Peter, and Paul. And as a result of Orson Hyde’s ascent up the Mount to dedicate Palestine, Latter-day Saints include him in this select group.
    [Show full text]
  • Journal of Mormon History Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005
    Journal of Mormon History Volume 31 Issue 3 Article 1 2005 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (2005) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 31 : Iss. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol31/iss3/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Mormon History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Journal of Mormon History Vol. 31, No. 3, 2005 Table of Contents CONTENTS ARTICLES • --The Case for Sidney Rigdon as Author of the Lectures on Faith Noel B. Reynolds, 1 • --Reconstructing the Y-Chromosome of Joseph Smith: Genealogical Applications Ugo A. Perego, Natalie M. Myres, and Scott R. Woodward, 42 • --Lucy's Image: A Recently Discovered Photograph of Lucy Mack Smith Ronald E. Romig and Lachlan Mackay, 61 • --Eyes on "the Whole European World": Mormon Observers of the 1848 Revolutions Craig Livingston, 78 • --Missouri's Failed Compromise: The Creation of Caldwell County for the Mormons Stephen C. LeSueur, 113 • --Artois Hamilton: A Good Man in Carthage? Susan Easton Black, 145 • --One Masterpiece, Four Masters: Reconsidering the Authorship of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Nathan D. Grow, 170 • --The Salt Lake Tabernacle in the Nineteenth Century: A Glimpse of Early Mormonism Ronald W. Walker, 198 • --Kerstina Nilsdotter: A Story of the Swedish Saints Leslie Albrecht Huber, 241 REVIEWS --John Sillito, ed., History's Apprentice: The Diaries of B.
    [Show full text]
  • DR DANIEL 5. RIC!Iards 1He Auther
    DR DANIEL 5. RIC!iARDS 1he Auther Motto: E pluribus Unum Motto: Nemo 111e lmpune Dieu defend le Droit la.cessit IiILL FAMILY IiISTORY ILLUSTRATED By DR. DANIEL B. IilLL RICHARDS SEGO LILY MAGAZINE PRINTING COMP ANY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FEBRUARY, 1927 PREFACE At the request of some few members of the Hili Family Organization, desiring me to fur!lish them with printed copies of a lecture, in the form of a historical sketch of the Alexander Hill Family, which I delivered at a reunion of the Hill Family Organization, held on the evening of October 4th, 1920, I am induced to reproduce this lecture, together with many more details and additions. On this occasion, I desire to express my appreciation of and gratitude for the courtesies and helpful endeavors of my fifteen year old son, Daniel Sinclair, my brother, Joseph Hill Richards, President of the Hill Family Organization, and my three following named cousins, Alexander Joseph Hill, .John Brice Hill and Perley Alexander Hill, who are the First, Second and Third Vice-Presidents of the above named organization, respectively. Also, to my two friends, Robert S,veeten and Wm. C. Parkinson, and to all others, who have in any wise loaned a helping hand in this arduous labor of love, which for the last five years has engrossed my time and attention, night and day, except when engaged in my legal profession and in caring for my personal affairs and real property, I extend my hearfelt thanks. At times, I have felt that few or none of our families manifested any interest in genealogical work, save it be my brother Joseph Hill Richards, and my second-cousin Alex­ ander Joseph Hill, both of whom are now deceased; and that I was left entirely alone in this barren field of labor.
    [Show full text]
  • 89392511.Pdf
    THE MORMON PROPHET AND HIS HAREM; OR, AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF BRIGHAM YOUNG, HIS NUMEROUS WIVES AND CHILDREN MRS. C V. WAITE, — " And with a piece of scripture, Tell them, — that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of Holy Writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." FIFTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. CHICAGO: J. S. GOODMAN AND COMPANY, CINCINNATI: C. F. VENT AND COMPANY, 1867, Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by CATHARINE V. WAITE, Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Second Judicial District of the Territory of Idaho. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED H. 0. H0UGHT0N AND COMPANY. PREFACE. No apology is offered for presenting to the public the only authentic account of Brigham Young, of his polygamous family, and of that complicated and incon- gruous system of social and political machinery, called Mormonism. The only form of religion in this country which re- fuses to conform either to the spirit of progress and im- provement and enlightened humanity which charac- terizes the age in which we live, or to our laws and the genius of our free institutions, — drawing constant- ly from foreign countries hosts of votaries, impelled hither not by a love of republicanism, but rather by a desire to exchange a political for a religious mon- archy, — is Mormonism, which presents an antagonism to our Government, and can scarcely fail to result in national trouble. The elements of a second rebellion are in active pro- gress in Utah, and, as in the case of the slavery rebel- lion, the great danger lies in failing to place a proper estimate upon the power of those elements for mischief, and to take the proper precautions in time.
    [Show full text]
  • Murder of Thomas Coleman in Theocratic Utah
    “Let This Be a Warning to All Niggers” The Life and Murder of Thomas Coleman in Theocratic Utah Connell O’Donovan June 2008 Draft Despite Mormonism’s hope of (re)creating Zion, a place of refuge for the persecuted in the desert, violence plagued a black Mormon in Utah’s early theocracy, an enslaved man named Thomas Colbourn or Coleman. He was often called Colbourn earlier in his life, perhaps being confused with the prominent British Mormon in Salt Lake at the time, also named Thomas Colbourn. Later accounts give the name of Coleman and his bowie knife was engraved with T. Coleman on it, so I feel certain that was his name.1 I should also point out that Coleman was popularly known in the territory by the pejorative nickname of Nigger Tom, a very clear marker of his otherness, and his status among his fellow Saints – an outcast among the outcast, and a convenient scapegoat for the fearful. Lashing themselves together with all their guilt and sexual confusion engendered by polygamy and pedogamy,2 the community of the faithful focused on the brutal punishment of a man, stereotyped as a sex criminal – and then washed its hands clean of it all, his story best forgotten for the benefit and edification of the recently-born ecclesiastical polity the Mormons called the Kingdom of God on earth. Just when Coleman arrived in Utah is unknown. His earliest known owner is called “Col. Johnson” and “J.H. Johnson” in various sources, although the exact identify of this man is in question.3 If this is prominent Utah poet and river ferry guard Joel Hills Johnson, and I have serious doubts it was, Coleman certainly did not arrive with the Johnson family in 1848.
    [Show full text]
  • Journal of Mormon History Vol. 27, No. 2, 2001
    Journal of Mormon History Volume 27 Issue 2 Article 1 2001 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 27, No. 2, 2001 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (2001) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 27, No. 2, 2001," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 27 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol27/iss2/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Mormon History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Journal of Mormon History Vol. 27, No. 2, 2001 Table of Contents CONTENTS LETTERS vii ARTICLES • --Polygamy and Prostitution: Comparative Morality in Salt Lake City, 1847-1911 Jeffrey D. Nichols, 1 • --"Called by a New Name": Mission, Identity, and the Reorganized Church Mark A. Scherer, 40 • --Samuel Woolley Taylor: Mormon Maverick Historian Richard H. Cracroft, 64 • --Fish and the Famine of 1855-56 D. Robert Carter, 92 • --"As Ugly as Evil" and "As Wicked as Hell": Gadianton Robbers and the Legend Process among the Mormons W.Paul Reeve, 125 • --The East India Mission of 1851-1856: Crossing the Boundaries of Culture, Religion, and Law R. Lanier Britsch, 150 • --Steel Rails and the Utah Saints Richard O. Cowan, 177 • --"That Canny Scotsman": John Sharp and the Negotiations with the Union Pacific Railroad, 1869-1872 Craig L. Foster, 197 • --Charles S. Whitney: A Nineteenth-Century Salt Lake City Teenager's Life Kenneth W.
    [Show full text]
  • The Annals of Iowa Volume 65, Numbers 2 & 3
    The Annals of Volume 65, Numbers 2 & 3 Iowa Spring/Summer 2006 SPECIAL COMMEMORATIVE ISSUE: MORMON HANDCART TREK A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF HISTORY In This Issue FIVE HISTORIANS of the Mormon experience treat the details of the Mormon handcart trek of 1856–1857. William G. Hartley provides an overview of the experience, setting it in the context of the overall over- land trail migration from the 1840s to the late 1860s. Don H. Smith discusses the leadership, planning, and management of the 1856 hand- cart migration. He argues that those aspects of the plan were executed with care and skill and that the disasters that befell the last two compa- nies of 1856 were due to factors beyond the leaders’ control. Fred E. Woods, often using the voices of the emigrants themselves, narrates the experiences of those emigrants as they made their way by ship from Liverpool to the United States and then by rail to Iowa City. Lyndia Carter picks up the story from there, following three of the handcart companies—the Willie, Haven and Martin companies—across Iowa as they were tested to see if they were up to the challenge of crossing the Plains all the way to the Salt Lake Valley. Finally, Steven F. Faux care- fully maps the route the handcart migrants followed across Iowa. Front Cover In the early 1900s the Daughters of Utah Handcart Pioneers commis- sioned a statue to memorialize the handcart trek. Sculpted by Torleif Knaphus, the 3-foot-high bronze monument, unveiled in 1926, was displayed for years in Salt Lake City’s Temple Square Information Bureau.
    [Show full text]
  • A History of the Involvement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Tanning Industry in Utah from 1847 to 1973
    Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 1973 A History of the Involvement of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Tanning Industry in Utah From 1847 to 1973 Paul Edwards Damron Brigham Young University - Provo Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Economic History Commons, and the Mormon Studies Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Damron, Paul Edwards, "A History of the Involvement of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Tanning Industry in Utah From 1847 to 1973" (1973). Theses and Dissertations. 4634. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4634 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. 10 f0 A histofhistonHISTORY OF THE involvementINVOLVEMTNT OF THEnineBANEnime CHUKCH OPOFJESUS CHRIST OF laheelaweeLAWERDAYLAWERLATTER day SAINTS IN THEnirevirelreirerranningnanningTANNING industryINDUSTRY IN UTAH FROM 1847 TO 19733973397319733.973 A thesis presented to the i department of charchchurch history andanc doctrine of the college of religiousreligionsinstruction brichardbrigham young university in partial fulfillment 1 of the requirements for the4 he degree master of arts by paulpatilpatliedwards damron august 1973 Tthish fchesisyh SO J s bby paul Eedvardsedwardsd w a d S DdairrondaireonDaairronron
    [Show full text]
  • The Saints and St. Louis, 1831-1857: an Oasis of Tolerance and Security
    BYU Studies Quarterly Volume 13 Issue 4 Article 5 10-1-1973 The Saints and St. Louis, 1831-1857: An Oasis of Tolerance and Security Stanley B. Kimball Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq Recommended Citation Kimball, Stanley B. (1973) "The Saints and St. Louis, 1831-1857: An Oasis of Tolerance and Security," BYU Studies Quarterly: Vol. 13 : Iss. 4 , Article 5. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol13/iss4/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in BYU Studies Quarterly by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Kimball: The Saints and St. Louis, 1831-1857: An Oasis of Tolerance and Se the saints and st louis 183118571831 1857 an oasis of tolerance and security stanley B kimball although surrounded by apostates we feel per- fectly safe in the midst of an enlightened people who alike know how to appreciate political liberty and religious free- dom conference resolution 10 feb 1845 this city has beananbeenanbeen an asylum for our people from fifteen to twenty years there is probably no city in the world where the latter day saints are more respected and where they may sooner obtain an outfit for utah the hand of the lord is in these things st louis luminaryLummary 3 feb 1855 during most of the nineteenth century st louis was the hub of trade and culture for the great western waterway system of the upper
    [Show full text]