American Fork (Utah) -- History
Found in 258 Collections and/or Records:
Life of Joseph Barlow Forbes
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typed biography of Joseph Barlow Forbes. Joseph was born in Maine in 1840 and died in Goshen, Idaho, in 1927. He served in the American Civil War (1861-1865) and migrated to Utah where he lived in American Fork for nearly the remainder of his life. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, married, had 27 children, and worked as a teacher.
Biography of Elizabeth Williams Grant
Biography of John Williams Grant
Biography of William Henry Grant
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. William Henry Grant was born in Mill Creek, Salt Lake County, Utah, in 1849. He lived in American Fork, Utah, married Mary Ann Preston in 1879, and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mary and William had no children, but they raised Minnie Brown as their own daughter. He died in 1942.
Biographical sketches of the life of William Grant
Handwritten autobiography and diary. Grant wrote his autobiography in 1882. Subsequently he kept a journal in the same volume. The diary consists mainly of monthly summaries of Grant's activities. Grant writes about his conversion to the Mormon Church in England, his migration to American Fork, Utah, and his activities as a businessman and musician. Grant also comments on Mormon polygamy.
Betsey Green letters
Handwritten letters addressed to various cousins. The collection consists of three full letters and one fragment of a letter. Green writes primarily about family matters and about her life in American Fork.
Biography of Charles D. Green and his wife, Mary Ann Radman Green
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Ann Radman Green was born in 1835 in England and died in 1903 in American Fork, Utah. Charles D. Green was born in 1838 and died in 1905 in Eureka, Utah. Charles came to Utah with Johnston's Army. He later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and settled in Alpine, Utah. Charles married Mary Ann Radman, but they had no children. They adopted Loren Fisher Green.
Elizabeth Lucretia Buckwalter Green biography
Photocopy of a typed biography of Elizabeth Lucretia Buckwalter Green who became one of the first teachers in American Fork, Utah
Life sketch of Ellen Green
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography of Ellen Green. Ellen Kennedy Shelley Green was born in Ireland in 1846, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and migrated to Utah in 1863. She soon settled in American Fork, Utah. She married John Shelley and later Alva Green and had eight children.
William Greenwood papers
Contains twelve handwritten, signed letters which concern Greenwood's conversion to Mormonism in England, his immigration to the United States, activities in Nauvoo, Illinois, and the 1847 trek to Salt Lake City and American Fork, Utah. Also includes a bound autobiography (plus typescript) written between 1869 and 1884.