View XML QR Code

Crookston family papers, 1857-1976

Overview of the Collection

Title
Crookston family papers
Dates
1857-1976 (inclusive)
Quantity
9 boxes, (4.5 linear feet)
Collection Number
UUS_COLL MSS 71
Summary
The Crookston collection spans four generations, beginning with Robert Crookston and ending with Burns Ballantyne Crookston, his great-grandson. The majority of the collection consists of the records of Nicholas Welch Crookston, including correspondence (1917-1927); personal papers (1886-1932); scrapbooks, diaries, and memoranda (1857-1930); an autobiography concerning his activities as Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bishop of the Greenville Ward; Crookston family genealogy; and papers concerning a business deal with the Boston Land Company and Frederick Steigmeyer (1917-1918) to develop the desert in the San Joaquin Valley. Also includes Alice Melvina Rice Crookston correspondence (1897-1918) and personal papers (1892-1925); Nicholas Oscar Crookston correspondence (1917-1927), personal papers, and diaries (1905-1919), including one recording his daily activities as a soldier in WWI (1918); Spencer Cleveland Crookston correspondence (1917-1918); Newell James Crookston writings (1890-1976), including his autobiography and North Logan community history; Burns Ballantyne Crookston writings (1960-1976); and Robert Crookston autobiography (ca. 1910).
Repository
Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions

Open to public research.

Languages
English.
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Return to Top

Biographical Note

Robert Crookston was born on September 21, 1821, in Anstruther, Fifeshire, Scotland. After converting to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Robert moved to the United States where he married Anne Welch on June 20, 1847, in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. The couple had twelve children, including Nicholas Welch Crookston, their seventh child, born October 22, 1857, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Nicholas married Alice Melvina Rice on November 8, 1883, in Salt Lake City, before moving north to Cache Valley. There he served as sheriff of Cache County from 1883 to 1890 and 1908 to 1913, and bishop of the Greenville (North Logan) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ward from 1891 to 1911. Nicholas died in North Logan on June 7, 1932. Nicholas' seventh child, Robert Burns Crookston, was born in Logan on February 4, 1892. Before his death on September 23, 1965, Robert and his wife, Glenda Marie Ballantyne, gave birth to Burns Ballantyne Crookston on December 6, 1922. This collection spans these four generations, beginning with Robert Crookston's birth in 1821 to Burns Crookston's death on April 28, 1975.

Return to Top

Content Description

The Crookston collection spans four generations, beginning with Robert Crookston and ending with Burns Ballantyne Crookston, his great-grandson. The majority of the collection consists of the records of Nicholas Welch Crookston, including correspondence (1917-1927); personal papers (1886-1932); scrapbooks, diaries, and memoranda (1857-1930); an autobiography concerning his activities as Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bishop of the Greenville Ward; Crookston family genealogy; and papers concerning a business deal with the Boston Land Company and Frederick Steigmeyer in Huron, California, (1917-1918) to develop the desert in the San Joaquin Valley.

Also includes Alice Melvina Rice Crookston correspondence (1897-1918) and personal papers (1892-1925); Nicholas Oscar Crookston correspondence (1917-1927), personal papers, and diaries (1905-1919), including one recording his daily activities as a soldier in WWI (1918); Spencer Cleveland Crookston correspondence (1917-1918); Newell James Crookston writings (1890-1976), including his autobiography and North Logan community history; Burns Ballantyne Crookston writings (1960-1976); and Robert Crookston autobiography (ca. 1910).

Return to Top

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Crookston family papers must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archvies manuscript curator and/or the Special Collections and Archives department head.

Preferred Citation

Crookston family papers, 1857-1976. (COLL MSS 71). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives department.

Return to Top

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in numeric sequence according to box and folder.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Dean F. Peterson.

Return to Top

Detailed Description of the Collection

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Mormons--Utah--Cache County--Archives.
  • Real estate development--California--San Joaquin Valley.
  • Sheriffs--Utah--Cache County--Archives.
  • Soldiers--Diaries.
  • World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American.

Geographical Names

  • North Logan (Utah)--History.

Finding aid created by Special Collections and Archives.
2008

CC Attribution
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

About Creative Commons Licenses in Archives West

Loading...
Loading...