Box 5
Container
Contains 25 Results:
Gibbons, Andrew Smith, 1825-1886
File — Box: 5, Folder: 22
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
Andrew Smith Gibbons was born March 12, 1825, in Ohio. When an infant his father gave him to a family by the name of Smith, relatives of the Prophet Joseph Smith. In 1845 he married Rizpah Knight and left Nauvoo in 1846 at the time of the expulsion of the Saints. The following year he came to the Great Salt Lake Valley as one of the original pioneers under the leadership of Brigham Young. He returned east the same year to his family in Iowa and arrived in the valley a second time in 1852. He...
Dates:
1825-1886
Tate, John W.
File — Box: 5, Folder: 23
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
Tate, with William H. Spiers, purchased land in Bear Lake County and planned to move there to make his home. However, in March 1880 he was called with a hundred others to go to St. Johns, Arizona, to settle. He and John Tuttle started south October 4, 1880, after deciding to leave his wife and family with his parents. He had been unable to sell his farm in Tooele and was very hard up. Tate and Tuttle arrived in St. George after traveling 336 miles from Tooele, did some temple work, and visited...
Dates:
1857-1986
Coleman, Evans
File — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
"St. Johns Purchase," by Evans Coleman. A short sketch taken from various sources telling incidents in the purchase of land for the site of St. Johns from Soloman and Morris Barth.
Dates:
1857-1986
LeSueur, James L.
File — Box: 5, Folder: 25
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
"How Saint Johns was Settled," by James LeSueur. A brief factual history of St. Johns.
Dates:
1857-1986
Tenney, Ammon M.
File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
The journal of Ammon M. Tenney begins October 20, 1875, when he was called to serve on a mission among the Indians. The mission included the Moquis, Zunis, Oimas, Maricopas, Navajos, Apaches, and Mexicans. He notes the conflict between the teachings of the Catholic priests and the Mormon missionaries. Those serving on the mission were T. Stewart, __ Pratt, Anthony W. Ivins, __ Jones, L. H. Hatch, R. H. Smith, James S. Brown, and Thales Haskell. Tenney mentions several times meeting Mr. J....
Dates:
1857-1986