UUS_mss082.xml Guide to the Colonia Juarez biographies 1933-1977 Colonia Juarez biographies 1933-1977 Finding aid/Register created by Elisabeth Cropper and Clint Pumphrey Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives ©2017
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-01-22. 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 Colonia Juarez biographies UUS_COLL MSS 82 1 box 0.25 linear feet 1933-1977 This collection contains biographical sketches and memoirs of the Miles P. Romney family, which settled in Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico in 1886. Material in English

Processed in June of 2013.

This collection was purchased by the Special Collections and Archives from Orrin Schwab Books sometime prior to 1997.

No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.

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

Permission to publish material from the Colonia Juarez biogrphies must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives manuscript curator and/or the Special Collections and Archives department head.

Initial Citation: Colonia Juarez biographies, USU_COLL MSS 82, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations: USU_COLL MSS 82, USUSCA.

Located on the Piedras River in Chihuahua, Mexico, Colonia Juarez was settled in 1885 by one of the several groups of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints settlers in Mexico that were fleeing prosecution by the United States government for their polygamist practices. The settlers at first rented land from the Mexicans until a new site could be purchased two miles from the original location, which was dedicated in 1887.

Miles Park Romney, the son of the master carpenter Miles Romney of St. George, Utah, relocated his family to Colonia Juarez in 1886 after he was pursued by the United States Marshals for practicing plural marriage. His son, Miles Archibald, was only sixteen at the time and played a large part in getting his family through the rough terrain, Indian country, and snow storms of Arizona and Old Mexico to Colonia Juarez where his father had gone to ready a place for them. Miles A. Romney became quite prominent in Colonia Juarez as he was a successful builder, contractor, and trader. A portion of the family still lives in the small town in the Piedras Verdes Valley.

This collection contains the biographies and memoirs of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints settlers in Colonia Juarez, Mexico. The papers are largely related to the Miles Park Romney family, which migrated to Juarez in 1886 and would be of interest to anyone interested in the settlement of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pioneers in Mexico. The manuscripts are housed in one box containing 15 folders of biographical sketches and memoirs that were assembled by Miles A. Romney's grandchildren, mainly by Elizabeth Romney Madsen, who used them for her privately published book entitled Memories of Mexico . Several of the documents include handwritten corrections that eventually became part of Madsen's book.

Material is arranged at the item level and each folder is labeled with the title of a document.

 Juarez (Chihuaha, Mexico)--Biography. Piedras Verdes Valley (Chihuahua, Mexico)--Biography. Mormons--Mexico--Biography. Mormon pioneers--Colonization--Mexico--Juarez (Chihuaha). Overland Journeys to the Western United States Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Biographical sketches of Miles Romney by his grandchildren undated 1 1 Biographical sketch of Elizabeth Gaskell Romney (wife of Miles Romney) written by a granddaughter undated 1 2 Letter from Elizabeth B. Walser (mother of the Burrell sisters) to Elizabeth Romney Madsen 1933 1 3 Life of Miles Archibald Romney, written by two granddaughters undated 1 4 Biographical sketch of Lillie Burrell Romney (wife of Miles A. Romney) undated 1 5 Biographical sketch Elizabeth Burrell Romney (wife of Miles A. Romney) undated 1 6 Sketch of Reed Romney by Cummorah Kennington Romney undated 1 7 Childhood memories of Helen Hogenson Romney undated 1 8 "Crossing the Galeana" by Elizabeth Romney Madsen undated 1 9 "The Mountain Trip" by Elizabeth Romney Madsen undated 1 10 "Memories of Mexico" Introduction, by Elizabeth Romney Madsen undated 1 11 "On the Northwestern Train" by Elizabeth Romney Madsen undated 1 12 Reminiscences by Elizabeth Romney Madsen undated 1 13 Sketch of life in Mexico by Jessie Taylor Romney undated 1 14 Miles A. Romney family reunion in Chihuahua Mexico 1977 August 5 1 15