Provo (Utah) -- History
Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:
Emma McDowell Jacobsen histories
Typewritten records. Jacobsen, working for the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, compiled a list of the names of early pioneers who were buried in the Provo City cemetery in Provo, Utah, from 1849 to 1859. Also included is a history of the first deaths and burials in Provo, Utah. The old city cemetery was first located on the hill where Brigham Young University was later built.
History of Provo
Typewritten history of Provo, Utah. The item includes one map and a number of newspaper clippings. The history was written for a sociology class.
Lafayette Hinckley and Alsina Elisabeth Holbrook letters
The letters of Lafayette Hinckley Holbrook and Alsina Elisabeth Brimhall Holbrook contain letters dated 1897–1913 (bulk: 1897–1901).
John Whitmer Hoover papers
Letters, cash receipts, account books, deeds, certificates, memorabilia, indentures, and miscellaneous notes. The materials were created when Hoover and his family resided in Provo, Utah, when he operated the Excelsior Roller Mills in that city. The items relate to the operation of the mill and to family matters.
Interview with Eva Leavitt Miles
Typewritten transcript of an interview conducted by Albert Winkler (1949- ) on 22 Aug. 1982. Miles talks about her family, her experiences in growing up in Bunkerville, and about working one summer in the Provo, Utah area.
Isgreen family correspondence
Holographs, two printed items and one typescript. The collection includes 28 letters written by or to members of the Isgreen family, 15 of which are written by or to Emil Isgreen. The correspondence is generally family news with a few business letters, two missionary letters from Wales and a description of Mattie Isgreen's travel in Hawaii. Also included are an invitation to a ball, 1896, the Democratic ticket for Provo, Utah, ca. 1900, and a thought on prayer.
Clayton Jenkins papers
Speeches, correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, and miscellaneous items. The materials relate to Jenkins' work in the Provo Chamber of Commerce and his association with athletics at Brigham Young University.
J. M. Jensen biography
Photocopy of a typewritten funeral address about Lars Echert Eggertsen. Jensen talks of Eggertsen's upbringing, his education, his position in the Provo City schools, and his ecclesiastical standing in the Mormon Church.
John Peter Rasmus Johnson speech
Photocopy of a handwritten and signed speech dated 17 March 1892. Johnson gave this address in commemoration of the fiftieth anieversary of the founding of the Relief Society in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints..