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Alva Keller (1809-1883) and his family were some of the first settlers of the Mill Creek area in 1848. Alva and his wife Roxey (1810-1901) joined the Mormon Church on 5 December 1835. They traveled with the Mormons through its mid-western moves. The Kellers settled with the Mormon Church at Nauvoo ca. 1839-1840, where Alva served as a member of the Nauvoo Legion. As a member of the Nauvoo Legion, Alva helped destroy the Nauvoo Expositor Printing office in 1844, which was founded by disgruntled church members who sought to expose Joseph Smith as a fallen prophet.
Alva was one of the early pioneers to settle Utah, and one of the first to settle in the Mill Creek area. John Neff (1794-1869) was a fellow settler, who brought his milling machinery with him to the Salt Lake Valley. Neff reassembled it at Mill Creek, and by the end of 1848, Neff was producing flour. The collection includes a biographical sketch of Alva Keller, and the histories of Mill Creek discuss John Neff's milling business.
The Mill Creek Ward was established in 1853, but it became the East Mill Creek Ward in 1877. The chapel was finished 1878. The collection includes amateur histories of the Mill Creek area and the East Mill Creek Ward, whose first bishop was John Neff Jr. (1837-1918), serving from 1877 to 1912. The collection also includes biographical sketches of Martha Ann Russell Capson (1869-1952) and her husband, Albert Alphonzo Capson (1862-1938), Bishop of the East Mill Creek Ward from 1912-1914.
The collection includes amateur histories and biographies surrounding the settlement of Mill Creek and the East Mill Creek Ward, founded 1853.
East Mill Creek Ward History Collection, ca. 1853-1994, Utah State Historical Society.
Bequeathed, 9 November 1999.
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"Along East Mill Creek of the East Mill Creek Ward: A Brief Pictorial History."
Sillitoe, Linda.
Mackay, Esther Luella Capson. "The Life of Albert Alphonzo Capson," n.d.
Mackay, Esther Luella Capson. "The Life of Martha Ann Russell Capson," n.d.
Tondro, Opal Gustaveson. "Alva Keller." Salt Lake City, 1994.