American Fork (Utah) -- History
Found in 258 Collections and/or Records:
John McNeill papers
Include two series: 1. John McNeill family papers, 1859-1901. 2. John McNeill professional papers, 1859-1901.
Biography : Sophia Crooks McNeill
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. McNeill was born in Scotland in 1827 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with her parents. She came to Utah in 1850, married John McNeill in 1852, and settled in American Fork. She left her husband when he took a second wife. She died in 1899.
Biographical sketch of the life of John Mercer
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Mercer was born in England in 1818, he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, and later to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1848. He settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1860.
Biography : Melissa Smith Mott
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Melissa Smith was born in 1830 in Tennessee. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1839. She later moved to Nauvoo, Illinois. She migrated to Utah in 1850 and settled in American Fork. She married Stephen Mott in 1850, but they had no children. She died in 1917.
Biography : Stephen Mott
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Stephen Mott was born in 1822 in Canada. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois. He later came to Utah in 1850. He was a farmer and a stock raiser. He had two wives and no children, but he helped raise three children of other couples. He died in 1906.
Biographical sketch : Ann Rachel Marsh Nicholes, pioneer of 1853
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Ann Rachel Marsh was born on the Island of Jersey in 1824 and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1853 and settled in American Fork. She died in 1909.
Biography of Niels Nielsen and Karen Marie Pedersen Nielsen
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Niels Nielsen was born in 1825 in Denmark. Karen Marie Pedersen was born in 1827 also in Denmark. Each joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853, and they married each other in 1854. They migrated to Utah in that same year and settled in American Fork in 1856. Karen died in 1897, and Niels died in 1898.
Short life sketch of Catherine Ingreberg Neilson Olsen
Oral history interview with George F. Shelley
Interview by Hollis Scott with George F. Shelley, farmer and teacher, concerning his experiences at Brigham Young Academy, 1888-1890, and later activities as a school teacher. Includes transcript and sound recording.
Our first automobiles
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten history. Timpson writes about the introduction of automobiles into American Fork, Utah.