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Springville (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

George Edward Anderson diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1477
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries for the years 1895-1904, 1908-1909, 1914-1915, and 1919-1920. Anderson writes about his family life, his studio in Springville, Utah, and his travels throughout southern Utah with his tent gallery. Three of the items deal with his mission for the Mormon Church in England and describe Anderson's photographing of Mormon history landmarks in the Eastern United States.

Dates: 1895-1928

Biography of Henry Mower Sr.

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306513]
Identifier: MSS SC 886
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a photocopy of a typewritten biography of Henry Mower. Mower was a Mormon pioneer who settled in Springville, Utah.

Dates: 1950

Black Hawk committee meeting minutes

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230320886]
Identifier: MSS SC 2233
Scope and Contents

Handwritten entries into a book of blank pages. The entries relate to the meetings of the "Black Hawk Committee" of Springville, Utah. The organization commemorated the Black Hawk War between the whites and Indians of Utah. Also included are financial records and a list of men from Springville who participated in the war.

Dates: 1897-1959

Dell Delos Boyer autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312727]
Identifier: MSS SC 1446
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript autobiography of Dell Delos Boyer. Boyer talks of his early years on his father's farm in Springville, Utah, his callings in the Mormon Church, his education, and his marriage.

Dates: 1959

A brief history of the life of Frederick Weight by himself

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227650519]
Identifier: MSS SC 3200
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript . Weight wrote about his early life in England and his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He migrated to the United States in 1849 and came to Utah in 1851. He settled first in Salt Lake City, Utah, where his wife died in child birth. Weight married Mary Milnes. He wrote about grasshopper troubles in 1854 and about his move to Springville, Utah, in 1856. He worked as a plasterer and a general laborer and faced...
Dates: Approximately 1895

Brookside subdivision 70th birthday celebration, 1944-2014 : a walk down memory lane

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197235219620]
Identifier: MSS 8404
Scope and Contents

DVD about the founding of Brookside subdivision in Springville, Utah, and the residents who live there. Dated 2014.

Dates: 2014

Zebedee Coltrin patriarchal blessing

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342948]
Identifier: MSS 776
Scope and Contents

Handwritten patriarchal blessing given to Louisa Bowen on 16 Dec. 1876 in Springville, Utah. Bowen is promised salvation if she is righteous.

Dates: 1876 December 16

Abraham Day III

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230326982]
Identifier: MSS SC 2680
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten biography of Abraham Day, III (1817-1900). Abraham Day was born in Vermont, joned the Mormon Church, moved to Montrose, Iowa near Nauvoo, Illinois, served in the Mormon Battalion 1846-1847, migrated to Utah, took a second wife, and lived in Springville and Mt. Pleasant, Utah, and served in the Black Hawk War. The date of the composition of this item is uncertain.

Dates: approximately 1930

Annie Eggertsen autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348614]
Identifier: MSS 1377
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography. Eggertsen writes about her early life in Denmark and about her migration to Utah. She describes Pleasant Grove, Provo, and Springville, Utah. Also included is a brief biography of her great grandfather.

Dates: 1950

William H. Evans autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306869]
Identifier: MSS SC 920
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography. Evans was born and raised in Springville, Utah. He went to the Utah Agricultural College and taught school in Utah and Wyoming. He moved to California where he worked as a salesman and as a businessman. He gives many details relating to his early life and to his business activities.

Dates: 1975