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This collection of material regarding Roskelley and the Roskelley family was deposited in the Hatch Memorial Room at the Merrill Library as part of the Cache Valley Historical Society's archive by R. Welling Roskelley. Later the archive was donated to Special Collections and Archives by the president of the Cache Valley Historical Society, S. George Ellsworth. It was originally part of CVHS COLL MSS 43, processed in 1976, and separated in November 1981.
In 2015, the collection was reprocessed to accommodate new donations. These donations include the map in Box 2, Folder 5, which was donated to the USU Special Collections and Archives by Richard Saunders in 2015, as well as the items in Box 3, which were donated to the USU Special Collections and Archives by Gaylen and Elaine Ashcroft in 2015. The family history material in Box 7 was donated by Favell Plant in 2006.
Additionally, the mathematics text in Box 1, Folder 1 was transferred into this collection from the Richard Welling Roskelley papers (Coll Mss 284, Box 4, Folder 11) in 2015. It was donated by Richard Saunders in 1997.
The two deeds in box 6, folder 5 were donated by Richard Saunders in 2018.
Photographs of the Roskelley family are available in P0013.
Samuel Roskelley : papers and temple records, 1859-1962. (COLL MSS 65). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives department.
Samuel Roskelley was born to Thomas and Ann Kitt Roskelley in Davenport, Devonshire, England, on January 1, 1837. Raised Baptist, he converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1851 and emigrated to Utah in 1853 with the Appleton Harmon company. After being called back to England in 1856 for a two-year Church mission, Roskelley returned to Utah and married Rebecca Hendricks on July 22, 1858. In 1860, he settled in Richmond, Utah, but Church leadership soon asked him to make the short move south to Smithfield, where he served as a Church bishop from 1862 to 1880. There he held a number of other important positions in the community, including superintendent of common schools for Cache County, mayor of Smithfield, and captain of the Cache Valley Militia. During this period, Roskelley also married a second wife, Mary Roberts, in 1865. He ultimately took on four additional wives over the course of his lifetime: Mary Florence Kelsey, Mary Jane Rigby, Margaret Rigby, and Sarah Maud Burton.
In 1880, Roskelley departed on a second mission to England, and shortly after his return in 1881, he was appointed president of the high priest quorum of the Cache Valley Stake on August 6, 1882. He assisted in the construction of the Logan Temple, for which he was later named recorder on May 2, 1884. Samuel Roskelley passed away on February 10, 1914, in Smithfield, Utah.
This collection contains seven boxes of papers from Samuel Roskelley, an early settler of Cache Valley. It includes several important documents pertaining to the life and family of Samuel Roskelley, such as his diaries, life sketches, and financial records. Of particular interest are items related to his work with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which relate to temple work in the St. George, Manti, Salt Lake, and Logan temples as well as meetings of the high priests' quorum of the Cache Valley Stake. These papers are useful to anyone researching the history of early Latter-day Saints settlers in Cache Valley or the history of the Roskelley family.
Arranged into three series: I. Roskelley Temple Records, II. Roskelley Family Records, and III. Personal Business Records, IV. Roskelley Genealogy.
Roskelley family photograph collection,
Richard Welling Roskelley Papers,
(Item removed from Coll Mss 284, Box 4, Fd 11).
Entries refer to temple work at St. George and, later, speak of labors on the interior of the Logan Temple. After dedication of the Logan Temple, Roskelley became the Temple recorder and in his diary he records persons who received sacraments such as second anointing.
Entries refer to work as the president of the quorum until 1904. The remainder of the diary contains information regarding family matters.
A map complementing
Contains: Revelation given through President John Taylor at Salt Lake City, October 13, 1882 (pp. 1-6); "Choice Tid-Bits," (pp. 7-9); Copy of "The Manifesto" issued by President Wilford Woodruff, September 26, 1890, (p. 10); Statistical tables with totals of ordinance work done in the L.D.S. Temples at Logan 1885- 1908, Manti 1888-1900, St. George 1877-1897, and Salt Lake 1893-1900, (pp. 12-176).
Also includes "Copy of Time Checks," "Subscription for Missionaries by High Priests of Logan," "Minutes of High Priests Stake Conference Meetings: 11-3-1877 to 7-31-1880."
Duplication of genealogies of David B. Dille, John P. Wright, and David Osborn.
Also includes genealogical and biographical information, letters and copies of letters.
Also includes rolls, rosters and lists of donations. (recorded by various clerks.)
This volume gives an account of Roskelley's private financial dealings. Included are labor for work on the Utah Northern Railroad, tie hacking, buying and selling agricultural goods, and dealings in agricultural commodities. Also in the ledger are his accounts with the Cache County School Fund.