Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Charles W. Fox papers
UUS_COLL MSS 66
13 volumes, 4 folders
3 linear feet
1859-1879
Thirteen bound, handwritten volumes dealing with the businesses and societies that Fox was involved in. Represented are the Franklin Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including a cashbook (1873), tithing records (1859-1865, 1870-1871), and an account book (1877); the Franklin Cooperative Mercantile Institution, including work records (1868-1874), account book (1869), and a cashbook (1873); and a personal diary of daily farm routine and Church service (1865-1867). Four folders hold receipts, legal papers, and some miscellaneous personal items. Also included are some home remedies and folk medicine recipes.
Collection materials are in English.
Open to public research.
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Deposit from the Cache Valley Historical Society, 1956.
Charles W. Fox papers, 1859-1879. (COLL MSS 66). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives department.
Farmer, mail carrier, director of Franklin Co-op.
Thirteen bound, handwritten volumes dealing with the businesses and societies that Fox was involved in. Represented are the Franklin Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including a cashbook (1873), tithing records (1859-1865, 1870-1871), and account book (1877); the Franklin Cooperative Mercantile Institution, including work records (1868-1874), account book (1869), and a cashbook (1873); and a personal diary of daily farm routine and Church service (1865-1867). Four folders hold receipts, legal papers, and some miscellaneous personal items. Also included are some home remedies and folk medicine recipes.
Arranged in numeric sequence according to book or folder number.
Franklin County (Idaho)--History.
Mormons--Idaho--Franklin County--Archives.
United orders (Mormon Church)--Idaho--Franklin--Records and correspondence.
Traditional medicine--Idaho--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Correspondence
Memorandum recording labor and tithing records for ward
Book 1
1859-1865
1
1
Franklin Branch clerk's record book
Book 2
1860-1867
1
2
Personal diary of daily farm routine and church service
Book 3
1865-1867
1
3
Record of work at Franklin Co-op; construction of meeting house; and finances of the Franklin Ward
Book 4
1868-1874
1
4
Account book listing stock held in the Franklin Co-op, the Utah Central Railroad, the Utah Northern Railroad, the Bridgeport Bridge and Mink Creek Mining Company
Book 5
1869-1877
1
5
Also included are home remedies and folk medicine recipes.
Franklin Co-op account book
Book 6
1869
1
6
Tithing record for Franklin Ward
Book 7
1870-1871
1
7
Franklin Ward Treasurer's account book
Book 8
1871-1878
1
8
Memorandum book recording labor and materials for the City Ditch and work on the Logan Temple
Book 9
1871-1878
1
9
Franklin Co-op cash book
Book 10
1873
1
10
Franklin Ward temple donations
Book 11
1877
1
11
Miscellaneous accounts both personal and church related
Book 12
1878-1879
1
12
Record book for church service and tithing
Book 13
1879
1
13
Receipts
undated
1
1
Legal papers - deeds, agreements, etc
undated
1
2
Patriarchal blessing and personal misc
undated
1
3
Miscellaneous
undated
1
4