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Summit County (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

George Brown papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342161]
Identifier: MSS 796
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diary, receipts, and a typewritten autobiography. Brown writes in his diary about his life in Hoytsville, Summit County, Utah. He writes about weather conditions, meetings of the Mormon Church, and business in Park City, Utah, where he hauled coal. Also included is an autobiography of Viola N. Zumbrunnen Mabey, Brown's daughter. Maybey writes of her life in Summit County, Utah.

Dates: 1878-1962

Charles A. Callis papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 22
Scope and Contents

Diaries (1893, 1940, 1943, and 1945), correspondence (1892-1947), reports of the Southern States Mission (1908-1934), sermons, articles, personal certificates, speeches, patriarchal blessings, and miscellaneous items. These materials deal with a wide range of Mormon theological and administrative issues. They also deal with personal and family matters.

Dates: 1892-1947

Names of the offices in Summit Stake of Zion

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322817]
Identifier: MSS SC 2619
Scope and Contents

Photomechanical reproduction of a handwritten manuscript. The item is a list of all stake officies in the Summit Stake of the Mormon Church as of 10 Aug. 1879. The manuscript includes the names of the office holders, time and place of their births, the names of their parents, when and where they were baptized into the Mormon Church for the first time and when and where they were rebaptized into that faith, and when and by whom these persons were ordained.

Dates: 1879

Ward E. Pack papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231563963]
Identifier: MSS 449
Abstract Collection includes a handwritten autobiography and diary written by Ward E. Pack between 1854 and 1876. His accounts include family histories, descriptions of his trek to Utah, his activities in Summit County, Utah, and his experiences on missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii and the Eastern States. Journals also include genealogical information written by his daughter. Also included are letters from John Pack, Ward's father, telling about the migration to...
Dates: 1847-1935

William Wollerton Riter letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230334010]
Identifier: MSS 1170
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letters. Also included is an "Estimate of cost of Construction of one mile of narrow gauge railroad." Riter writes to the second president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young, concerning the value of the coal reserves in Summit County, Utah, and the expenses of building a railroad in the area.

Dates: 1875-1876

Hyrum Fisher Smith papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232550092]
Identifier: MSS 2362
Abstract

The contents of this collections relate to or belonged to Hyrum Fisher Smith. Included in the collection are a razor and its case, tithing receipts, tax notices, bills and invoices, daybooks and calendars, correspondence, and newspaper articles. The contents of the collection have been divided into categories, with each folder representing a different genre. Within each folder, the documents have been ordered chronologically.

Dates: 1883-1923