John Henry Gibbs papers
Scope and Contents
The John Henry Gibbs Collection deals mainly with Gibbs' mission. The collection is organized into the following categories: genealogical information, journals, notebooks and miscellaneous items, letters, personal history of Louisa Gibbs, articles written about the Tennessee Massacre and books owned by Gibbs.
Dates
- Creation: 1872-1938
Creator
- Gibbs, John Henry, 1853-1884 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Collection must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical / Historical
John Henry Gibbs was born on July 28, 1853 in Havorford, West Pembroke, Wales. He was the third son and sixth child of George Duggan and Ellen Phillips Gibbs. He, along with his family, was baptized on August 28, 1862.
Extent
2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://ead.lib.byu.edu:8080/Ead/ead_viewdoc.jsp?eadid=VMSS741.xml
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/VMSS741.xml
Custodial History
This collection has come from two Gibbs family sources: the bulk of the material was donated in 1990 by John Gibbs Ellingson and his family of Salt Lake City. Additional items, including John Gibbs letters and the midwife record books of Louisa Gibbs were donated in 1990-91 by Dorothy Bunnell of Price, Utah.
Appraisal
19th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts.
Subject
- Title
- Register of John Henry Gibbs papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Leslie Evens
- Date
- 2011 November 30
- Description rules
- Appm
- 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