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Judges -- Utah -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Shuster Zane autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230232909]
Identifier: MSS 707
Scope and Contents

Mimeographed copy of a typewritten autobiography. Zane writes about his early life as a student and as a lawyer in Springfield, Illinois. He tells about his personal acquaintance with Abraham Lincoln and about hearing Lincoln give formal speeches on several occasions. Zane was appointed a federal judge in 1884 for the territory of Utah and writes about presiding over a number of important cases relating to polygamy in Utah. He later practiced law in Utah.

Dates: 1899

John Cradlebaugh letter

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233294229]
Identifier: Vault MSS 688
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter of resignation dated February 12, 1861. The item was written in Carson City, Nevada. Cradlebaugh states that he will no longer serve as a judge in the territory of Utah.

Dates: 1861 February 12

E. C. Fitzhugh letter

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233283735]
Identifier: Vault MSS 86
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 24 July 1860, and addressed to J. I. Black. Fitzhugh writes about the appointment of Henry R. Crosbie as a judge in Utah.

Dates: 1860 July 24

E. C. Fitzhugh letter to J. I. Black

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233283636]
Identifier: Vault MSS 88
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated 24 July 1860, and addressed to J. I. Black. Fitzhugh writes about the appointment of Henry R. Crosbie as a judge in Utah.

Dates: 1843 July 24

Daniel Harrington papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230232784]
Identifier: MSS 714
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, legal papers, mementos, certificates, and family papers. Correspondents include James E. Talmage, George H. Brimhall, and Karl G. Maeser. Also included is a certificate signed by President Ulysses S. Grant.

Dates: 1850-1905

Jacob Johnson certificate

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230320894]
Identifier: MSS SC 2236
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and printed certificate. The governor of the Utah Territory, Caleb Walton West, issued a certificate appointing Jacob Johnson as judge in Sanpete County, Utah.

Dates: 1893

Edward Partridge, Jr. diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1004
Scope and Contents Photocopies of handwritten diaries. Partridge writes about his mission to Hawaii from 1854 to 1858 and from 1882 to 1885 for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the latter when he served as mission president. He writes about incidents during the Utah War (1857-1858), and settling in Farmington and in Fillmore, Utah, where he served as bishop. Patridge also writes about his work as a probate judge in Millard County, as a member of the Utah Territorial Legislature in the 1870s,...
Dates: 1854-1899

Petition of residents of Utah

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233286704]
Identifier: Vault MSS 134
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed petition, dated 30 Sept. 1853, and addressed to Franklin Pierce, president of the United States. The item requests that Leonidas Shaver be retained as justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory. The petition is signed by 27 Utahns including Jedediah M. Grant and Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1853 September 20