Scope and Contents Contains letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, diaries, meeting minutes, postcards, newsletters, and organizational notes. The materials document Utah Mormon life in the 20th century, including Mormon missions, army life, college life, and family life of the Boyer family. Vesta Boyer's personal diaries detail the events of their family and community. The collection also contains documents related to the work of Edward and Vesta Boyer, including work with the Utah Farm Bureau. Dated 1925...

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Contains papers of Hugh M. Dougall, Jr., his wife Rhoda Rebecca Groesbeck Dougall, and their daughter Catherine Dougall Wills. The Dougall family members were early residents of Springville, Utah. This collection includes journals, autograph albums, financial records, correspondence, a scrapbook, and other printed ephemera from 1882-1939.

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Menhall, Boyer, and Houtz family correspondence, including correspondence between Catherine Houtz Boyer and Lydia Houtz.

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The collection contains the journals, hymn notebook, and missionary notebook of J. David Larson and David H. Larson.

Scope and Contents Author shares family experiences in Springville, Provo, and Manti, Utah. She also recounts experiences at Brigham Young High School and Academy in Provo. In the 1920s she and her family lived in Long Beach and Berkeley, California and were active in the LDS Church there. Upon returning to Utah, Bullock worked as a sales clerk at Auerbach's in Salt Lake City and during World War II she worked at Fort Douglas. She gives insight into women in the work place during the war. She also gives...

Scope and Contents Phtocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten manuscript. The item is a biography of Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet and Catherine Stoker Hulet by an unnamed author on an unspecified date. "The parents of both Sylvanus and Catherine were early members of the Church. When but a young boy and girl, they too were baptized members of the L.D.S. Church. With their parents they suffered the persecutions of the early saints." Sylvanus met Joseph Smith, the first president of the Mormon Church, when he...

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Includes nine bound record books spanning the years 1851-1864. They record deeds of transfer, land survey certificates, deeds of consecration, and transfer records of enslaved people. Most of the records were kept by Lucius N. Scovil, the county recorder of Utah County, but some were also kept by Dominicus Carter, Isaac Higbee, and Howard Coray. The deeds of consecration recorded in Utah County begin in 1855 and primarily mention land and property rather than cash contributions.