BYU Library - Special Collections

Collection contains the journals, correspondence, and ephemera of John Orval Ellsworth. There are eighty-nine journals dating from 1911 to 1974. The collection deals with his work with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, agriculture in the Western United States, university life, and the Ellsworth family. The collection also contains church records, genealogical records, and Ellsworth family materials. The collection dates from 1911 to 1974.

Materials include a collection of records related to the Salem Ward in Salem, Utah. Includes documents related to the founding of the ward in the late 1800s, including a copy of the Articles of Incorporation, some membership certificates, financial records of the ward Relief Society, stock certificates for Salem Irrigation Canal Company from the 1940s, and documents related to the construction of a meetinghouse in 1970. Dated 1873-1970.