UUS_mss034.xml Guide to the Smithfield diaries1850-1940 Smithfield diaries1850-1940 Finding aid created by Special Collections and Archives. Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008 Utah State University, Merrill Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
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Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-8248 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
UUS_COLL MSS 34 Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives. Smithfield diaries 1850-1940 5 boxes 2.5 linear ft. This collection contains diaries and family records of the early settlers in Smithfield, Utah. This collection would be useful to any person interested in the early history of Smithfield. It would also be useful to persons interested in the records of genealogy of a particular family in Smithfield. The collection is arranged alphabetically and is very easily accessible by anyone. Collection materials are in English. Restrictions

Open to public research.

 Copyright

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Permission to publish material from the Smithfield diaries must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

The materials in this collection were donated to Utah State University Special Collections & Archives by Lawrence Cantwell in two batches, the first in 1976 and the second in the early 1990s.

Smithfield diaries, 1850-1940 (COLL MSS 34). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.

 Historical Note

In 1859 Brigham Young sent Robert Thornley and his cousin north to found a settlement on Summit Creek. They named their new community Summit, but the name was soon changed to Smithfield in honor of John Glover Smith, the town's first LDS Bishop. Smithfield was officially incorporated by the territorial legislature in 1868. The materials in this collection originate from settlers residing in Smithfield during these formative years and subsequent decades.

This six-box collection consists of typescripts and photocopies of diaries, family records, biographical sketches, and oral history interviews concerning the early settlers in Smithfield, Utah. The materials in this collection were collected and compiled by Lawrence Cantwell, a former resident of Smithfield. The diaries, family records, and biographical sketches, have been organized alphabetically by the last name of the individual. The oral history interviews conducted by Lawrence Cantwell between 1970 and 1989 have been placed at the end of the collection and arranged alphabetically by the interviewee's late name.

Organized alphabetically by the last name of the individual

 Diaries Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Pioneers Mormon pioneers--Biography. Smithfield (Utah)--History. Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)--Diaries. Biographies. Family histories. Genealogies. Container List Typescripts and photocopies of diaries, family records, biographical sketches 1 1 Ahrens, John and Dorthea Elizabeth Christensen Undated (1 item) 1 2 Ahrens, Walter D. and Bessie Sorensen Undated (1 item) 1 3 Ainscaigh, William Thomas and Margaret Thompson Undated (1 item) 1 4 Anscough, William Sr. and Mary Clark Wakefield, and Christian Undated (1 item) 1 5 Anderson, Anna Celia Undated (1 item) 1 6 Anderson, Betsy Undated (1 item) 1 7 Barber, Alonzo George -- Biography Undated (1 item) 1 8 Barber, George Sr. Families Undated (1 item) 1 9 Barber, Herbert and Emma Farrell Undated (1 item) 1 10 Boice, John, Families Undated (1 item) 1 11 Brough, Elizabeth Bott Undated (1 item) 1 12 Cantwell, James and Julia Ann Collett Undated (1 item) 1 13 Cantwell, James and Julia Ann Collett Undated (1 item) 1 14 Cantwell, James and Julia Undated (1 item) 1 15 Cantwell, James Sherlock and Elizabeth Homer Undated (1 item) 1 16 Cantwell, Lorena Downs Undated (1 item) 1 17 Cantwell, Mary Undated (1 item) 1 18 Cantwell, William Homer and Lorena A. Downs Undated (1 item) 1 19 Carter, Emma Nilson Undated (1 item) 1 20 Chambers, Alfred and Mary Langton Undated (1 item) 1 21 Chambers, Mary Langton Undated (1 item) 1 22 Chambers, William and Clarissa Bense Undated (1 item) 1 23 Coleman, Franklin Undated (1 item) 1 24 Coleman, George and Mary Jane Smith Undated (1 item) 1 25 Coleman, John and Roda Smith Undated (1 item) 1 26 Coleman, William and Mary Done Undated (1 item) 1 27 Coleman, William Family Undated (1 item) 1 28 Collett, Adelbert Teancum Undated (1 item) 1 29 Collett, Daniel Families Undated (1 item) 1 30 Collett, Reuben and Elthura Merrill Undated (1 piece, 1 item) 1 31 Collett, William Gordon Undated (1 item) 1 32 Craghead, Thomas Family Undated (1 item) 1 33 Cragun, Amelia Chambers Undated (1 item) 1 34 Cragun, Calvin Undated (1 item) 1 35 Cragun, James A Undated (1 item) 1 36 Cragun, Thomas and Emma Undated (1 item) 1 37 Cragun, Thomas Calvin Undated (1 item) 1 38 Cragun, Wallace Undated (1 piece) 1 39 Done, George and Alice Family Undated (1 item) 1 40 Douglas, William Jr Undated (1 piece) 1 41 Douglas, William Mochire, Cynthia Merrill, and Annie Copeland Undated (1 item) 1 42 Downs, James Alma and Mary Gittens Undated (2 items) 1 43 Downs, James and Mary Ann Greathouse Undated (2 items) 1 44 Erickson, Jeanettie Low Undated (1 piece) 1 45 Everton, Elizabeth Pitcher Undated (1 item) 1 46 Everton, Elizabeth Pitcher Undated (1 item) 1 47 Ewing, Jackson and Rebecca Smith Undated (1 item) 1 48 Farrell, George Lionel and Amanda Adeline Steel Undated (1 item) 1 49 Fishburn, Robert and Laura Matilda Fishburn Undated (1 item) 1 50 Gardner, John and Martha Dunlop Undated (1 piece, 1 item) 2 1 Garnet, William and Germma Rhodes Undated (1 item) 2 2 Gibson, Robert Rulasha Undated (1 item) 2 3 Gittens, James Sr Undated (1 item) 2 4 Gittens, James William and Mary Elizabeth Cragehead Family Undated (1 item) 2 5 Goodrich, Harriet Penelope Undated (1 item) 2 6 Goodwin, Isaac Undated (1 item) 2 7 Green, Evan Melbourn Undated (1 item) 2 8 Gyllenskog, Catherine Ann Smith Undated (1 piece) 2 9 Gyllenskog, Theodore and Anna Smith Undated (1 item) 2 10 Hadfield, James and Margaret Gardner Undated (1 item) 2 11 Hammer, Austin Undated (1 item) 2 12 Hammer, John Family Undated (1 item) 2 13 Hanson, Ida Louisa Gamet Undated (1 item) 2 14 Hansen, Ole Undated (1 item) 2 15 Hanson, Peter Undated (1 item) 2 16 Harper, Richard Undated (1 item) 2 17 Harper, William F Undated (1 item) 2 18 Harris, Martin Jr. and Nancy Ann Hamer Undated (1 item) 2 19 Hatch, Jeremiah Family Undated (1 item) 2 20 Hendrickson, Diana Kelsy Undated (1 item) 2 21 Hill, Joseph and Betsy Ann Harper Family Undated (2 items) 2 22 Hillyard, Emma Harper Undated (1 item) 2 23 Hillyard, Mary Ann Heaps Undated (1 item) 2 24 Hillyard, Thomas and Elizabeth Wood Undated (1 item) 2 25 Hillyard, Thomas Jr Undated (1 item) 2 26 Hillyard, William Undated (1 item) 2 27 Homer, Edmund Undated (2 items) 2 28 Homer, William Harris and Rebecca Raymond Undated (1 item) 2 29 The House on the Hill Undated (1 piece) 2 30 Jones, John Redding Undated (1 item) 2 31 Jones, Parmineas and Mary Miles Undated (1 item) 2 32 Jones, Robert John and Eliza Collett Undated (1 item) 2 33 Jeushaw, Elizabeth Irene Littlewood Undated (1 item) 2 34 Kelsey Family History Undated (2 items) 2 35 Kirkbride, James and Lucinda Gibson Undated (1 item) 2 36 Kirkbride, James W Undated (1 item) 2 37 Kirkbrides Undated (2 items) 2 38 Langton, Seth, Sarah Swebenberg, and Sarah Caine Undated (1 item) 2 39 Limmon Family Undated (1 item) 2 40 Floyd, Benjamin Sr Undated (1 item) 2 41 Low, Margaret Smith and Griffiths Undated (1 item) 2 42 Low, Osborne Family Undated (1 item) 2 43 Low, Osborne Undated (1 item) 2 44 Low, SylYester, Anna, and Smith Undated (1 item) 2 45 Low, SylYester Jr Undated (1 item) 2 46 Low, Sylvester and Ann Allan Patten Undated (1 item) 2 47 Lowder, James and Mary Sharloetta Downs Undated (1 item) 2 48 Lower, Abraham Undated (1 item) 2 49 McBride Undated (1 item) 2 50 McCann, Ellen Cantwell Undated (1 item) 2 51 McCann, Joseph Nephi and Ellen Cantwell Undated (1 item) 3 1 McCann, Joseph Nephi and Ellen Cantwell Undated (1 item) 3 2 McCann, Thomas and Sarah Johnston Undated (1 item) 3 3 McCann, Thomas Revenhall Undated (1 item) 3 4 McCarthy, John Undated (1 item) 3 5 McCracken, Henry and Sarah Shaw Undated (1 item) 3 6 McCracker, Joseph and Anna Undated (1 item) 3 7 Mack, James and Elizabeth Miller Undated (1 item) 3 8 Main, Robert, John McKay, and Euphema Undated (1 item) 3 9 Mather, James Undated (1 item) 3 10 Mather, Thomas and Mary Ann Cantwell Undated (1 item) 3 11 Merkle, James and Amelia Tidwell Undated (1 item) 3 12 Merrill, Alberto John and Idah H Undated (1 item) 3 13 Merrill, Austin Shepherd and Laura Wilder Harris Undated (2 items) 3 14 Merrill, Austin Shepherd and Maria Wilder Harris Undated (1 item) 3 15 Merrill, Dudley and Aluira Huntsman Undated (1 item) 3 16 Merrill, Freeborn Shephard Undated (1 item) 3 17 Merrill, George G. and Alice Smith Undated (1 item) 3 18 Merrill, Horatio Family Undated (1 item) 3 19 Merrill, Justin J. Family Undated (1 item) 3 20 Merrill, Ralph Tancum and Mary Plowman Undated (1 item) 3 21 Merrill, Orion Jackson and Elizabeth White Undated (1 item) 3 22 Merrill, Orson J. and Elizabeth White Undated (1 item) 3 23 Merrill, Philomen C Undated (1 item) 3 24 Meikle, Robert Undated (1 item) 3 25 Merrill, Samual Undated (1 item) 3 26 Merrill, Samual B Undated (1 item) 3 27 Merrill, Samual Beamis Undated (1 item) 3 28 Merrill, Samual and Phoebe Odell Undated (1 item) 3 29 Merrill, Solyman and Laura Walder Undated (1 item) 3 30 Merrill, Virgil Levi and Stacy Ann Lemon Undated (1 item) 3 31 Merrill, Yirgil W. and Jan Taylor Undated (2 items) 3 32 Merrill, Virgil Washington Undated (2 items) 3 33 Merrill, Wallace and Lenora Undated (1 item) 3 34 Miles, Albert Undated (1 item) 3 35 Miles, Edwin Ruthven and Three Families Undated (1 item) 3 36 Miles, Edwin Ruthven Jr. and Annie Smith Undated (1 item) 3 37 Miles, Thomas Family Undated (1 item) 3 38 Miles, William Albert Undated (1 item) 3 39 Milligan, Margaret Elizabeth and Douglass Morehead Undated (1 piece) 3 40 Morehead, James Madison and Elizabeth Thomas Undated (2 items) 3 41 Morehead, Preston Thomas Undated (1 item) 3 42 Morehead, Preston Thomas Undated (1 item) 3 43 Mourtizen, Lars and Maria Sorensen Undated (1 item) 3 44 Moursten, Mourits Undated (1 item) 3 45 Mouritsen, Susan Elizabeth Wildman Undated (1 item) 3 46 Nelson, Alma Franklin and Mary Orenson Undated (1 item) 3 47 Nelson, Joseph and Lydia Collett Undated (1 item) 3 48 Nelson, Joseph and Lydia Collett Undated (1 item) 3 49 Nelson, Robert and Elizabeth Joseph Undated (1 item) 3 50 Nelson, Robert James and Ellen Saxton Undated (1 item) 4 1 Nelson, Samual and Mettie McBride Undated (1 item) 4 2 Nilson, Kreista J Undated (1 item) 4 3 Nilson, Nils Peter Undated (1 item) 4 4 Nilson, Peter and Loretta Lucinda Miles Undated (1 item) 4 5 Nilson, Samual Peter and Loretta Lucinda Miles Undated (1 item) 4 6 Noble, Ira E. and Mary E Undated (1 item) 4 7 Noble, William Aquilla Undated (1 item) 4 8 Noble, William Aquilla and Sarah C. Merrill Undated (1 item) 4 9 Noble, William G. and Mary Ann Harper Undated (1 item) 4 10 Merrill, Ira Elias Merrill and Lucinda Jane Olmstead Undated (1 item) 4 11 Olson, Ole Undated (1 item) 4 12 Peterson, Jens Christian and Johannah Steffensen Undated (1 item) 4 13 Peterson, John August Undated (1 item) 4 14 Phillips, Martha Mathews Undated (1 item) 4 15 Pilkington, Margaret Farrell Undated (1 item) 4 16 Pilkington, Richard and Ida Hardman Undated (1 item) 4 17 Pilkington, William Sr. and Lydia Holden Undated (1 item) 4 18 Pitcher, Henry George and Sarah Ann Saxton Undated (1 item) 4 19 Pitcher, James Daniel and Nancy Jane Smith Undated (1 item) 4 20 Pitcher, John and Rebecca Undated (1 item) 4 21 Pitcher, John Jr. and Rebecca Brown Undated (1 item) 4 22 Pitcher, John William and Mary Clarissa Thornley Undated (1item) 4 23 Pitcher, William and Ellen Thornley Undated (1 item) 4 24 Platt, George and Hannah Undated (1 item) 4 25 Platt, John and Betty Undated (1 item) 4 26 Plowman, Christian Jacobsen and Amelia Raymond Undated (2 items) 4 27 Plowman, John Jacob and Mary Anderson Undated (1 item) 4 28 Lauritzen, John Jacobsen and Mattie Marie Undated (1 item) 4 29 Postma, Beense William Undated (1 piece) 4 30 Postma, Julie Ann Collett Undated (1 piece) 4 31 Price, Moroni and Mary Elizabeth Raymond Undated (2 items) 4 32 Raymond, Zilpha Noble Undated (1 item) 4 33 Reid, James and Elizabeth Cummings Undated (1 item) 4 34 Reid, Robert and Annie Low Undated (1 item) 4 35 Rex, Mary Elizabeth Brough Undated (1 item) 4 36 Rice, Oscar North Undated (1 item) 4 37 Richardson, Eliza Undated (1 item) 4 38 Richardson, Joseph and Eliza Undated (1 item) 4 39 Richards, Louisa Green Undated (1 item) 4 40 Richardson, Peter Undated (1 item) 4 41 Richardson, Thomas Undated (2 items) 4 42 Roberts, Hugh and Mary Griffiths Undated (1 item) 4 43 Roskelley, James and Francis Emery Undated (1 item) 4 44 Roskelley, Mary Jane Rigby Undated (1 item) 4 45 Roskelley, Mary Roberts Undated (1 item) 4 46 Roskelley, Rebecca Hendricks Undated (1 item) 4 47 Roskelley, Samual Undated (1 item) 4 48 Roskelley, Samual Jr Undated (1 item) 4 49 Roskelley, Sarah Maud Burton Undated (1 item) 4 50 Roskelley, William Hendricks Undated (1 item) 5 1 Smith, Abraham Undated (1 item) 5 2 Scrowther, William Undated (1 item) 5 3 Scrowther, Mary Ann Moon Lowder Undated (1 item) 5 4 Sant, Margaret Mustard and George Undated (1 item) 5 5 Smith, Alice Done Undated (1 item) 5 6 Smith, George Young, Joanna Luck, and Elizabeth Reid Undated (1 piece,1 item) 5 7 Smith, Jonathan Heber Undated (1 item) 5 8 Smith, Joseph and Sarah Owens Undated (1 item) 5 9 Smith, Joseph J. and Julia Elnora Undated (1 item) 5 10 Smith, Manford and Mary Owens Undated (1 item) 5 11 Smith, Nathen and Jane Sant Undated (1 item) 5 12 Smith, Thomas and Emily Peacock Undated (1 item) 5 13 Smith, William A. and Julie Hammer Undated (1 item) 5 14 Sorensen, Lars Christian, Karen Marie Peterson and Bertha Anderson Undated (1 item) 5 15 Sorensen, Peter and Bertha Undated (1 item) 5 16 Thomas, Daniel Claburn Undated (1 item) 5 17 Thomas, Harrison Ayers and Ann Morehead Undated (1 item) 5 18 Thomley, John and Helen Langton Undated (1 item) 5 19 Thornley, John and Margaret Stringfellow (click to view) Undated (1 item) 5 20 Thompson, Louis J. and Elizabeth Undated (1 item) 5 21 Thompson, Louis J. and Elizabeth Undated (1 item) 5 22 Thompson, William and Elizabeth Bourne Undated (1 item) 5 23 Thornley, John and Margaret Stringfellow (click to view) Undated (1 item) 5 24 Thornley, John Stuart Undated (1 item) 5 25 Thornley, Ralph Undated (1 item) 5 26 Thornley, Robert and Annie Brighton Undated (1 item) 5 27 Thornley, William and Emma Clark Undated (1 item) 5 28 Tidwell, Royal Undated (1 item) 5 29 Tidwell, Shphronia Hatch Undated (1 item) 5 30 Timmins, William James and Helen Thornley Undated (1 item) 5 31 Toolson, Andrew and Ghena Funk Undated (1 item) 5 32 Toolson, John and Cuzandra Smith Undated (1 item) 5 33 Toolson, Lars and Ingra Johnson Undated (1 item) 5 34 Toolson, Lorenzo and Alice Harper Undated (1 item) 5 35 Two Brave Women who Shared Hardships with Mormon Battalion Undated (1 item) 5 36 Watts, Henry Undated (1 item) 5 37 Watts, Henry Family Undated (1 item) 5 38 Watts, Joseph and Helen Lundstrom Undated (1 item) 5 39 Weeks, David and Hannah Riches Undated (1 item) 5 40 Weeks, David John and Mary Luella Winn Undated (1 item) 5 41 Weeks, Robert and Mary Boldry Undated (1 item) 5 42 White, Walter Henry Undated (1 item) 5 43 Wiliman, Edward and Jane Baxter Undated (1 item) 5 44 Williams, Ezra G Undated (1 item) 5 45 Winn, Thomas Family Undated (1 item) 5 46 Winn, William L Undated (1 item) 5 47 Woodruff, Newton and Elizabeth Susan Weeks Undated (1 item) 5 48 Woolford, Thomas and Hannah Priscilla Thomas Undated (1item) 5 49 Wright, Charles Undated (1 piece) Recordings and oral history interviews conducted by Lawrence Cantwell 1970-1989. 6 Tape 1 L. Cantwell reminisces on the Union Hall, Smithfield 1977 6 Tape 2 L. Cantwell reminisces on the Union Hall, Smithfield 1978 6 Tape 3 L. Cantwell on fishing trip with E. Hansen; C. and H. Haslam 1988 6 Tape 4 L. Cantwell reads from the 1892 diary of LaVeda Pilkington Griffiths 6 Tape 5 Downs, Theoda 1980 6 Tape 6 Febriceas, Orpah R., Larsen, Julie R., and Coot, Edith Undated 6 Tape 7 Griffiths, W. H Undated 6 Tape 8 Gyllenskog, George Oscar, tape 1 Undated 6 Tape 9 Gyllenskog, George Oscar, tape 2 Undated 6 Tape 10 Gyllenskog, George Oscar, tape 3 Undated 6 Tape 11 Hansen, J. F 1978 6 Tape 12 Jardine, LaRue Undated 6 Tape 13 McCann, Marc 1988 6 Tape 14 Miller, Lowell & Genell 1981 6 Tape 15 Miller, Lowell & Genell 1981 6 Tape 16 Oliversen, Glen & Francine 1981 6 Tape 17 Olney, Lorin & Mona 1978 6 Tape 18 Peterson, Leslie 1986 6 Tape 19 Peterson, Leslie 1986 continued 6 Tape 20 Peterson, Leslie 1987 6 Tape 21 Peterson, Leslie, "series 3" Undated 6 Tape 22 Rasmussen, Alfred & Mildred 1977 6 Tape 23 Raymond, Mr. & Mrs 1977 6 Tape 24 Richardson, Vaughan 1989 6 Tape 25 Reed, Erwin 1977 6 Tape 26 Seamons, Harvey & Melba 1979 6 Tape 27 Sorenson, Gaylord & Golden, and Higginson, Grant 1977 6 Tape 28 Thurston, Ollie 1987 6 Tape 29 Tidwell, Vernon 1986