UUS_mss355.xml Guide to the Fife Family missionary diaries 1893-1914 Fife Family missionary diaries 1893-1914 Finding aid/Register created by Kara Parker Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008 Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives ©2011
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-06-10. Finding aid encoded in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition). 2009 Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Fife Family missionary diaries UUS_COLL MSS 355 1 box 0.5 linear feet 1893-1914 This collection contains three missionary diaries of Robert Harris Fife and one missionary diary of his son, Robert Lee Fife. Material in English

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This collection was donated to USU Special Collections and Archives by Dorothy M. Fife, granddaughter-in-law of Robert Harris Fife, in June 2009.

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Initial Citation: Fife Family missionary diaries USU_COLL MSS 355, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations: USU_COLL MSS 355, USUSCA.

Robert Harris Fife was born December 16, 1863 in Providence, Cache County, Utah to James and Elizabeth Watts Fife. He attended Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah, receiving the equivalent of a high school education. On April 16, 1891, he married Mary Elizabeth Stocks in Logan, Cache County, Utah. In December 1893, Fife left Iona, Idaho for Virginia to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He returned to Iona in 1896. Fife died April 12, 1924 in Logan, Cache County, Utah.

Robert Lee Fife was born May 10, 1892 in Lewiston, Cache County, Utah to Robert Harris and Mary Elizabeth Stocks Fife. He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1912-1914. After returning from the Northern States Mission, Fife married Zenobia Helena Soelberg on October 4, 1916. Fife passed away on November 16, 1958 in Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, Idaho.

This collection contains three diaries of Robert Harris Fife, dating 1893-1896, from his mission in Virginia for Tthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The collection also contains one missionary diary of Robert Lee Fife, son of Robert Harris Fife, dating 1912-1914, from the Northern States Mission, which was headquartered in Chicago. The diaries mainly document daily missionary activities, and also include expense accounts and other records. The collection also contains one photograph of Robert Lee Fife.

Arranged into one box and six folders.

Robert Fife, Iona, Idaho: [journal photocopy], 920 F466J

Fife Family: Lore and Reminiscences, 929.2 F466

Folkways of a Mormon missionary in Virginia, FOLK COLL 2 no. 17t

 Iona (Idaho)--History Mormon missionaries--Virginia--Diaries Mormon missionaries--Illinois--Diaries Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Diaries Images Mormon missionary journals--local Robert Harris Fife Diary 1893-1894 1 1 Robert Harris Fife Diary 1895 1 2 Robert Harris Fife Diary 1896 1 3

This diary documents the end of Fife's mission and the five months following his return to Iona, Idaho.

 Robert Lee Fife Diary 1912-1914 1 4 Photocopy, Robert Lee Fife Diary 1912-1914 1 5 Robert Lee Fife Photograph 1893-1894 1 6