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Alpine (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 155
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries and poems. These journals were kept from 1885 to 1928 when Booth was in Alpine, Utah, at the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, and in Turkey and Armenia as a missionary and as mission president.

Dates: 1885-1916

Biographical sketch of William T. Brown

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230327634]
Identifier: MSS SC 3287
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Shelley writes about William Thomas Brown. Brown was born in England in 1843 and migrated to Utah in 1852. During the journey, cholera killed both of Brown's parents. He lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, and later settled in Alpine, Utah.

Dates: 1925

Walton family biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230240852]
Identifier: MSS SC 424
Scope and Contents

Typescript of family stories and pioneer experiences. Describes the growth of Alpine, Utah and its educational system in 1860-1870 and in Provo, Utah in 1870-1877. Also includes a memorial to Emma Jacques Walton.

Dates: 1931

Autobiographies, miscelleanous notes, and diary of Joseph William Watkins

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232480472]
Identifier: MSS 1563
Scope and Contents This collection consists of autobiographies and autobiographical notes and sketches by Oscar Watkins. These materials also contain miscellaneous notes relating to Watkin's family history and genealogy and to financial transactions and land boundary questions. Also included is the diary of Joseph William Watkins (1854-1888) for the years 1885-1888. A photocopy of this journal is also available in the collection. The account book of Golden Howlett of Alpine, Utah for the years 1882-1884 is...
Dates: 1882-1959