Lois R. Evans legal documents
Scope and Contents note
Collection includes four documents. Items pertain to areas from Salt Lake City to Utah County and are mostly land documents. Items of note in this collection consist of a deed for Samuel Ensign's property and the Title for Parley P. Pratt's land while he lived in Utah. There is also a document pertaining to Margaret C. Adams.
Dates
- 1867-1905
Creator
- Evans, Lois R., 1921-2001 (collector, Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use note
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the Lois R. Evans legal documents must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Lois R. Evans lived in Utah.
Extent
1 folder (0.04 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Lois R. Evans legal documents consist of four different legal documents between Salt Lake and Utah County. The documents in the collection, though gathered by Lois R. Evans, pertain to Margaret C. Adams, Samuel Ensign, and Parley P. Pratt.
Custodial History note
Maintained by Lois R. Evans until time of donation; It is not known from where or from whom Evans received the documents. The documents in the Lois R. Evans legal documents collection were drawn up in Deseret News Office, a branch of the current Deseret News which constructed land documents and other legal documents, and at the Homer Abstract Company, a company which thrived in Salt Lake by writing titles and deeds from 1872 to 1925. In 1997 Evans donated the documents to L. Tom Perry Special Collections.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Donated; Lois R. Evans; 1997.
Appraisal note
19th Century Western & Mormon Manuscripts; 19th Century legal documents in Utah.
Processing Information note
Processed; Lissa Chandler; 2009.
- Title
- Register of Lois R. Evans legal documents
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Lissa Chandler
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States