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American Fork (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 258 Collections and/or Records:

Biography : Nephi Elsmore

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339662]
Identifier: MSS 2532
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Nephi Elsmore was born in 1850 in England. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1868. He married Alica Ellen Fryer in 1873, and the new couple moved to American Fork, Utah. He died in 1911. Also included is a poem by Laura L. Timpson dedicated to the Elsmore family.

Dates: 1940

Sketch of the life of Sarah Ann Richards Elsmore and Joseph Hyrum Elsmore

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230338292]
Identifier: MSS 2794
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Sarah Ann Richards was born in England in 1855. She later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1862. She met and married Joseph Hyrum Elsmore in 1871 and had 10 children. The couple lived in American Fork, Utah. Joseph died in 1905. Sarah was a midwife and died in 1922.

Dates: 1958

Biography : Mary Clines Evans

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339696]
Identifier: MSS 2535
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Ann Clines was born in 1834 in England, and her family later moved to Australia. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and married Robert Evans. They migrated to Utah in 1857 and settled in American Fork. The couple had no children. She died in 1930. Also included is a poem by Laura L. Timpson about Mary Clines Evans.

Dates: 1940

Biography : Robert Evans

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339688]
Identifier: MSS 2534
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Robert Evans was born in 1827. He married Mary Ann Clines in 1852. He joned the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a migrated to Utah in 1856. He later moved to Utah in 1857 and settled in American Fork. He died in 1885.

Dates: 1940

Biography : Emma Smith Featherstone

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339712]
Identifier: MSS 2537
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Emma Smith was born in 1832 in Enlgand. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853 and migrated to Utah in 1857. She married Thomas Featherston and settled in American Fork, Utah. She died in 1913.

Dates: 1940

Biography : Thomas Featherstone

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339704]
Identifier: MSS 2536
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Featherstone was born in 1834 in England, and he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1849. He mirgrated to Utah in 1857 and settled in American Fork. He had seven children and died in 1918.

Dates: 1940

First cement side walks in American Fork

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523817]
Identifier: MSS 2833
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typed history. Timpson writes about the first concrete sidewalks in American Fork, Utah.

Dates: 1958

First dance halls and orchestras in American Fork

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523783]
Identifier: MSS 2829
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten history. Timpson writes about early dance halls and orchestras in American Fork, Utah.

Dates: 1958

The first log houses in American Fork

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523775]
Identifier: MSS 2828
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of microfilmed copy of a typewritten history. Timpson writes that the first house made of logs in American Fork, Utah, was constructed in 1850. She also tells about similar structures erected in the following decades.

Dates: 1957

First tannery and shoe making in American Fork

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523791]
Identifier: MSS 2830
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten history. Timpson writes about the first tannery and early shoe making in American Fork, Utah.

Dates: 1958