The Sanpete County Records, 1878-1980

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Summary Description
Repository:Utah State Historical Society
Call number:Mss B 50
Creator: Sanpete County (Utah).
Title: Sanpete County Records, 1878-1980
Quantity:2 lin. ft. (4 boxes)
Abstract: Research notes and chapter drafts. Published by the Sanpete County Commission as "The Other Forty-Niners", 1982.

Topics:
Dams -- Design and construction -- Photographs.
Polygamy.

Places:
Fairview (Utah) -- History.
Manti (Utah) -- History.
Mt. Pleasant (Utah).
Nine Mile Reservoir (Utah).
Utah -- Sanpete County -- History.
Utah -- Colonization.
Utah -- Discovery and exploration.
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Background

Background Note

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Scope and Content

Research notes and chapter drafts. Published by the Sanpete County Commission as "The Other Forty-Niners", 1982.

Series Descriptions

Records
Manuscripts
Notecards
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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation:

Sanpete County Records, 1878-1980, Utah State Historical Society.

Restrictions on Use

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Processing Information:

Collection processed by staff

Finding aid compiled by staff

Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2000

Collection cataloged by Richard Saunders, 1988 (RLIN ID: UTSX88-A77).

Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2000.

Separations

Photographs filed separately in Mss C 50. Subjects include various Manti buildings and scenes, Poor House at Fariview, Ephraim rock quarry, the construction of Nine Mile Reservoir. Also includes photos by Everett Cooley of homes in Mt. Pleasant and Fountain Green at other topics.

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Container list

Box

Folder

Contents

Records

1

1

Alter, J. Cecil, Early Journalism in Utah, notes from

1

2

Sanpete bounty (animal) record, 1898, 1901, 1905, 1911-1924, 1926-1931 [handwritten transcribed data]

1

3-4

Lunatics and indigents; notes from Sanpete County Court Minutes, 1867-1900; county insane record, 1900-1924; county infirmary ledger, 1917-1928; county payments to indigents, 1867-1935; county expenditures to lunatics and indigents, 1867-1897; Azariah Smith journal, 1850; miscellaneous materials

1

5

Miscellaneous letters and documents found between the pages of the Sanpete County Infirmary Ledger, receipts, invoices, 1928-1931; agreement between Sanpete and Emery Counties, 1929; monthly report of county infirmary; estimated revenues and expenditures for the county infirmary for the calendar years 1928-1931; written request for additional money for 1928 budget

1

6

Miscellaneous notes and articles; Autobiography of Mary Larsen Ahlstrom; Cindy Rice, interview with Henry S. and Rose R. Schofield, 11 April 1974; Cindy Rice, interview with Floyd and Lavee Draper, 23 April 1974; Cindy Rice, interview with George Crisp; household statistics; population figures; map; Index to "Indian Depredations in Utah," 1942; "Christmas Night in Ephraim," by Chas. Ballou Lockwood; Ralf R. Wooley, "Cloudburst Floods in Utah, 1850-1938," USGS Water Supply Paper #994, 1946; "The Sanpete Expedition of 1849: A Revisionist View," by Larry Shumway, 1979; "Chapter II: Economic and Social Activities in Utah Prior to and during the Depression"; miscellaneous materials

1

7

Planning and correspondence; correspondence, 1977-1981; chapter outlines; memos; budget; newspaper clippings

1

8

Scandinavian and other immigrant work done by Methodist church; miscellaneous materials

1

9

Sanpete County: New Futures in...Industry and Agriculture, prepared by Sanpete County Industrial Development Committee and Utah Committee on Industrial and Employment Planning, undated [publication]

1

10

Azariah Smith, Dr. Robert B. Aird's comments on epilepsy of

1

11

Preliminary Matter, table of contents, introduction and acknowledgments for Sanpete County Commission, The Other 49ers: A Topical History of Sanpete County, Utah 1849 to 1983, 1982

Manuscripts

1

12

"Geographical Features and Resources" [chapter draft]

1

13

"The Mormon-Indian Encounter" [chapter draft]

1

14

"Settlement and Growth" [chapter draft]

1

15

"Little Scandinavia" [chapter draft]

1

16

"Sanpete County History: A Hierarchical Landscape" [chapter draft]

1

17-18

"Agriculture and Livestock" [chapter draft]

2

1

"Plateau and Valley" [chapter draft]

2

2

"Plateau and Valley" [chapter draft]

2

3

"Economic and Social Experimentation, 1870-1890" [chapter draft]

2

4

"Religious and Ethnic Diversity" [chapter draft]

2

5

"Cultural Development" [chapter draft]

2

6

"The Quality of Life" [chapter draft]

2

7

"The Mormon Village Embattled" [chapter draft]

2

8

"Village Culture in the Twentieth Century" [chapter draft]

2

9

"Sanpete County Between the Wars" [chapter draft]

2

10

Bibliography

2

11

Table of contents and preface to Sanpete County Commission, The Other 49ers: A Topical History of Sanpete County, Utah 1849 to 1983 (1982) [final draft]

2

12

"Geographic Features and Prehistory [final chapter draft]

2

13

"The Mormon-Indian Encounter, 1849-1877 [final chapter draft]

2

14

"Settlement and Growth" [final chapter draft]

2

15

"Little Scandinavia" [final chapter draft]

2

16

"Agriculture and Livestock" [final chapter draft]

2

17

"The Plateau and the Valley" [final chapter draft]

2

18

"Economic and Social Experimentation, 1870-1890" [final chapter draft]

2

19

"Religious and Ethnic Diversity" [final chapter draft]

2

20

"Cultural Development, 1850-1920" [final chapter draft]

2

21

"The Quality of Life" [final chapter draft]

2

22

"The Mormon Village Embattled" [final chapter draft]

2

23

"Village Culture in the Twentieth Century" [final chapter draft]

2

24

Bibliography

Notecards

3-4

1

Notecards