Ricks, Joel, 1858-1944
Dates
- Existence: 1858 - 1944
Biographical History
Joel Ricks was born in Farmington, Utah, on July 21, 1858, to Joel Ricks, Sr. and Sarah Beriah Fiske Allen Ricks. The Ricks family moved to Cache Valley, in 1859, to settle in Logan. In 1881, Joel, Jr. married Susette Cardon with whom he had eight children. He spent his working life as a telegrapher for the Utah Northern Denver, Rio Grande Western, and Union Pacific Railroads. He also served as the station agent at many of his posts. While living at Castle Dale, Utah, in 1895, he was elected to represent the people of Sevier County as one of the 105 delegates to the first Constitutional Convention of the new State of Utah. Mr. Ricks made a lifelong study of the Book of Mormon. He traveled through Arizona to Mexico, in 1893, to explore the possible geographical sights of the Book of Mormon lands. In addition, he made the first of four trips to Columbia, South America, in 1903, for the purpose of conducting personal research. He was the author of four books and several pamphlets on Book of Mormon subjects and had published several maps on what he believed to be significant material relating to them. He was a historian of great ability. Later in his life, Joel, Jr. worked as a genealogist for his family for the Utah Genealogical Society, extracting thousands of marriage bonds in Virginia. He collected and wrote stories of the living pioneers in Cache Valley in 1923-1924. These stories were printed in the local newspaper. Joel Ricks, Jr. died in River Heights, Utah, on November 23, 1944, and is buried in the Logan City Cemetery.
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Joel Ricks printed works, 1907-1933
Joel Ricks' published works.
Joel Ricks published articles and books, 1915-1940
Published articles and books by Joel Ricks.
Joel Ricks scrapbook pages, undated
Scrapbooks of Joel Ricks.
Joel Ricks unpublished articles and manuscripts, undated
Writings by Ricks that were not published.
Others articles about Joel Ricks, undated
Articles written about Ricks.
Joel Ricks photographs of Book of Mormon lands
Fifty-eight 10 x 10 cm. prints, forty 9.5 x 12 cm. prints, seventeen 4 x 5 original negatives with prints, thirty-two 13.5 x 15.5 cm. mounted prints, and a newspaper from Colombia. Fifteen photographs of Central and South America of buildings, lands, and mummies. Also, three postcards purchased by Joel Ricks, Jr. in Colombia about 1903.
Joel Ricks Jr. photographs of South America and the Civil War
The collection contains seventeen photo duplicate positives and negatives of Ruins in South and Central America, nineteen pages of photos of the Civil War, eighty-two postcards from Utah, one hundred and four postcards of various places in North America, thirty-three photographs of Columbia taken by Joel Ricks, Jr., one pamphlet of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and eleven newspaper pages.
Joel Ricks papers
This collection contains various journals, letters, and published and unpublished materials of Joel Ricks Jr. It also contains Ricks family history material; miscellaneous notes, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and printed material collected by Ricks; Book of Mormon research and study materials; and three photographs.
Joel Ricks papers
Contains religious documents, notebooks, datebooks, diaries, clippings, and maps documenting Ricks' experience as a Mormon missionary in the American South. Materials date from between 1877 and 1939. Also includes a unique edition of The Book of Mormon and an 1877 diary chronicling Ricks' mission to St. Louis.
Writings by or about Joel Ricks, undated
Writings either by Joel Ricks or about him.
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- Archival Object 15
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- Material Types 18
- Logan (Utah) -- History 17
- Photographs 4
- Articles 3
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 2
- Diaries 2
- Letters 2
- Minutes (Records) 2
- Arizona 1
- Awards 1
- Book of Mormon -- Antiquities 1
- Book of Mormon -- Geography 1
- Book of Mormon stories 1
- Books 1
- Cache County (Utah) -- History 1
- Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho) -- History 1
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints 1
- Colombia -- Photographs 1
- Columbia -- Antiquities 1
- Columbia -- Description and travel 1
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Central America -- Photographs 1
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- South America -- Photographs 1
- Fiction 1
- Genealogies 1
- Images 1
- Immigration and American Expansion 1
- Latter Day Saint churches -- Missions -- Missouri -- History 1
- Latter Day Saints -- Biography 1
- Literature 1
- Logan (Utah) 1
- Manuscripts, American 1
- Missions and Missionaries 1
- Notes 1
- Pamphlets -- North Carolina -- Rocky Mount 1
- Pioneers 1
- Pioneers -- Utah -- Biography -- Logan 1
- Pioneers -- Utah -- Cache Valley -- Biography 1
- Postcards -- Utah 1
- Pyrites 1
- Rocky Mount (N.C.) 1
- Saint Louis (Mo.) 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- South America 1
- South America -- Antiquities 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs 1
- Virginia 1 + ∧ less