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  Utah Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The creation of the Utah Territory was partially the result of the petition sent by the Mormons who had settled in the valley of the Great Salt Lake starting in 1848.
The controverseries stirred by the Mormon religion's dominance of the territory is regarded as the primary reason behind the long delay of 46 years between the organization of the territory and its admission to the Union in 1896 as the State of Utah, long after the admission of territories created after it.
In contrast, the Nevada Territory, although more sparsely populated, was admitted to the Union in 1864, only three years after its formation, largely as a consequence of the Union's desire to consolidate its hold on the silver mines in the territory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Utah_Territory   (545 words)

  
 Utah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Utah is the center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church), of which approximately 60% of the residents are members.
Utah is one of the Four Corners states and is bordered by Idaho and Wyoming in the north, by Colorado in the east, by New Mexico to the southeast across the Four Corners, by Arizona in the south, and by Nevada in the west.
The population of Utah in 2000 was 2,233,169.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/Utah.htm   (3074 words)

  
 Brigham Young and the Utah Territory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When Utah became a territory as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1850, it was whittled down to a greatly reduced size.
As the Utah territory grew and prospered, its population became a mix of Mormons and non-Mormons from all over the world.
Utah became a territory as a result of the ____.
webschool.wash.k12.ut.us /socialstudies/utah/1850.html   (629 words)

  
 Utah & Salt Lake City - 1851   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
UTAH is a newly-organized territory among the distant western possessions of the United States, deriving its name from that of the Pah-Utahs, a numerous tribe of native Indians, heretofore and still, with other tribes, occupying large portions of the country.
The territory, together with that of New Mexico, and of the lately-formed State of California, fell to the United States by right of conquest, during the war with Mexico, and was duly transferred by the latter, under the treaty of 1848.
All free white males, residents in the territory at the date of said act, were empowered to vote at the first elections, and made eligible to any office in the territory; after which the legislative assembly shall fix the qualifications of electors.
cprr.org /Museum/Utah_1851.html   (5606 words)

  
 Political History of Nevada, 1996
The establishment of the Territory of Utah in 1850, the organization of its government, and the first session of the territorial government in 1851, were contemporary with the first permanent non-Indian settlement in Nevada at Genoa.
The laws of Utah Territory, based on those of Deseret, were in effect throughout what is now Nevada, the southern-most portion excepted, and Carson County government was established in what is now western Nevada by the Territory of Utah.
The Utah act was an elaboration of the Provisional State of Deseret county divisions, expanded to encompass the entire area of the territory.
dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/nsla/archives/political/historical/hist04.htm   (1660 words)

  
 Utah Division of Wildlife Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Settlement of the Territory of Deseret began with the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847.
The Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah at its twenty-first session in 1874 made provisions for the first appointment of personnel for the administration of fish laws.
This is evidence that A. Milton Musser was the first official administrator of fish and game in Utah under the provisions of the laws of the Territory of Utah passed at the twenty-ninth session of the Legislative Assembly on March 11, 1890.
www.wildlife.utah.gov /about/history.html   (5879 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Utah
Utah, which was the pioneer of irrigation in the inter-mountain states, has been converted from deserts and sage-brush wastes into fertile fields.
The boundaries of the new territory were defined in the Congressional Act to be: Oregon on the north, California on the west, the summit of the Rocky Mountains on the east, and the 37th parallel of latitude on the south.
On 5 Feb., 1868, Colorado and Utah were erected by Papal Brief into a vicariate Apostolic and the Very Rev. Joseph P. Machebeuf of Denver was, on 16 August of the same year, raised to the episcopate and entrusted with the vicariate.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15238a.htm   (3506 words)

  
 Everybody Fooled: The Utah War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The incident of 1857-58 known as the Utah Expedition, the Utah War or Buchanan's Blunder was a collision of territorial self-determination against a federal government already faced with insubordination in Kansas and its Southern states.
Utah's leaders learned of the approaching army from mail carriers, who had picked up word of the big government supply contracts in Independence, Mo. In this vacuum of information, and after 27 years of persecution, the Mormons assumed the worst.
Utah's first line of defense, however, were several hundred mounted men known as "scouts," "rangers," or "bandits" and "scoundrels," depending on your point of view.
www.thehistorynet.com /we/blutahwar2   (1368 words)

  
 Original Land Titles in Utah Territory
The territorial government also established county recorders as keepers of land records, and in 1888 the Territorial Assembly defined certain indexes and finding aids which county recorders were thereafter required to keep.
Conflict between the federal and territorial governments kept the issue on hold until 1868, and in the meantime, large sections of the territory were transferred to neighboring territories and states.
Since Utah county probate courts were responsible for adjudicating and authorizing federally recognized title to previously distributed town lots, the records relating to those judgments are among the records kept by county probate courts.
historyresearch.utah.gov /guides/land2.htm   (3485 words)

  
 Articles - Utah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The fastest-growing areas have been Utah County, western and southern Salt Lake County, eastern Tooele County, northern Davis County, northern Utah County, Summit County, and Iron and Washington counties in Southern Utah.
The record high temperature in Utah was 117° F (47° C), recorded at Saint George on Friday, July 5, 1985, and the record low was -69° F (-56° C), recorded at Peter's Sink in the Bear River Mountains of northern Utah on Friday, February 1, 1985.
Utah is well-known for being a heavily Mormon state, and most residents of the state are affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
www.worldhammock.com /articles/Utah   (3021 words)

  
 Executive Document Number 35
Brandebury and Brocchus, the Legislative Assembly proceeded to re-district the Territory, and assigned the remaining judge, the honorable Zerubabel Snow, to perform the duty of holding all the district courts in the Territory until other judges shall be appointed and enter upon the discharge of their duties.
The fourth section of the organic act of the Territory requires the governor, previous to the first election, to cause a census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the several counties or districts of the Territory, to be taken, for the purpose of an equal apportionment of the members of the Legislative Assembly.
Harris, secretary of the Territory, have removed from the Territory of Utah, and consequently vacated their offices within the same, therefore your memorialists do most earnestly solicit and pray the Chief Executive of the United States to fill those vacancies as speedily as possible.
elmerfudd.us /dp/lds/lds2-doc25-letters.htm   (10602 words)

  
 Utah History Encyclopedia
The Utah War, 1857-1858, was a costly, disruptive and unnecessary confrontation between the Mormon people in Utah Territory and the government and army of the United States.
Upon reaching Utah in early June, they found Young and his colleagues willing to accept forgiveness for past offenses in exchange for accepting Cumming and the establishment of an army garrison in the territory.
As for the Mormon community in Utah, the exertions and expenditures associated with the Nauvoo Legion efforts and the Move South taxed both capital and morale.
www.media.utah.edu /UHE/u/UTAHWAR.html   (994 words)

  
 Constitution of the State of Utah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The County of Utah shall constitute the Eleventh Representative District, and be entitled to four representatives.
But when the said Territorial indebtedness shall have been paid, the State shall never contract any indebtedness, except as in the next section provided, in excess of the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, and all monies arising from loans herein authorized, shall be applied solely to the purposes for which they were obtained.
The act of the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, entitled, "An Act to punish polygamy and other kindred offenses," approved February 4th, AD 1892, in so far as the same defines and imposes penalties for polygamy, is hereby declared to be in force in the State of Utah.
www.archives.state.ut.us /exhibits/Statehood/1896text.htm   (9882 words)

  
 Utah War biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Utah War was a 19th century armed conflict between Mormon settlers in Utah Territory and the United States federal government.
The U.S. troops marching toward Utah were originally led by Gen. William S. Harney, but Harney was forced to return to Kansas to deal with a conflict there.
September 11, 1857: A group of Mormons in southern Utah (allegedly ordered by Colonel William H. Dame, directed by Lieutenant Colonel Isaac C. Haight, and led by John D. Lee) attack and kill a group of traveling civilians in the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
utah-war.biography.ms   (679 words)

  
 Pioneer Immigrants to Utah Territory -- Genealogy Database for Family History Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
An excellent collection of more than 1,700 migration records for Utah, Pioneer Immigrants to Utah Territory is an index of six maroon binders that contain questionnaires completed by members of the National Society of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers (SUP).
Utah Pioneers, 1847-50 Index of pioneers to Utah between 1847 and 1850, created by the Sons of Utah Pioneers.
Utah - State Fact Sheet Save yourself hours of time and aggravation by ordering this information-packed, two-page coated reference sheet specially developed to simplify genealogical research in the state of Utah.
www.familycensusrecords.com /db.asp?dbid=5423   (371 words)

  
 Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in reference to the condition of affairs in ...
The officers not residents of the Territory reached the scene of their duties a fortnight after, on the I9th of July, with the exception of Judge Perry C. Brocchus.
When I took my departure from Utah, the architect of the contemplated capitol was busily employed in preparing the plans and drawings for the building, and the governor was very desirous that they should be com­pleted, and a daguerreotype of them taken to be exhibited by me to the President and.
Those of us then in the Territory, powerless and compelled to be observ­ers of all these things on account of the omnipotence of the church and the governor, determined to report the facts in writing to the President of the United States.
elmerfudd.us /dp/lds/lds2-doc25-letters0.htm   (6539 words)

  
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Census of 1850 Utah Territory, Free Inhabitants in the County of Great Salt Lake, Deseret, as of 1 June 1850, page 57 B, family 496: Henry Mower, farmer, age 26, bn Pa; Susan age 26, bn.
Census of 1860 Springville, Utah Territory FHL #805314 taken on 7 Sep 1860, page 298 dwelling 2634, family 2068: Hy Mower age 36, bn Pa; Elizth 40 bn Carolina; Alice 20 bn England; John A. 12 bn Iowa; Thos.
John Mower, son of Henry and Mary (Amick) Mower: Census of 1850 Utah Territory, Free Inhabitants in the County of Davis, as of 1 June 1850, Family 191, page 15 B: Elizabeth Bidewell age 47 bn.
www.mowerfamily.org /notes/census.html   (820 words)

  
 NARA - Publications - Special List 29: Utah
Map of Utah Territory showing the Routes connecting it with California and the East.
Map of the Territory of Utah, Showing the extent and progress of the Public Surveys.
Post Route Map of the State of Utah showing post offices with the intermediate distances on mail routes in operation on the 1st of January, 1917.
www.archives.gov /publications/finding-aids/maps/ut.html?template=print   (972 words)

  
 NCWV 1st Nevada Volunteers
Nevada Territory Volunteer Cavalry are transferred to Camp Douglas, Utah Territory, District of Utah.
Nevada Territory Volunteer Cavalry, is ordered to patrol the Unitah Valley, Utah Territory and then report for duty with the Commanding Officer, Fort Bridger, Dakota Territory on or about July 31, 1864.
Nevada Territory Volunteer Cavalry, are engaged with the Pi-Utes and Bannocks at the Battle of Table Mountain, Nevada Territory.
www.ncwv.org /History.htm   (4055 words)

  
 Railroads of Utah, Utah Railroad Corporations, Part 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To consolidate the interests of the Utah, Nevada and California Railroad, a Utah corporation (index 44-A, incorporated on May 1, 1891), and the Nevada and California Railroad, a Nevada corporation
The termini of said railroad shall be Salt Lake City, County of Salt Lake, Territory of Utah, and at or near the south end of Stockton Lake, in the County of Tooele, a distance of about 45 miles
From a junction with the Utah Southern at Sandy Station, east to the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon, then through the canyon to a convenient terminus - a distance of about 20 miles.
utahrails.net /utah-rrs/utah-rrs-inc-9.php   (1587 words)

  
 Oath for a Women--Territory of Utah 1888.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Beason court also ruled that disenfranchising polygamists and barring them from public service was a legitimate exercise of territorial legislative power.
For the federal and territorial governments, woman suffrage was a pawn in the polygamy debate rather than a fundamental right.
This new law included the following provisions: A test oath was reintroduced into Utah's elective process: voting, serving on juries, or holding public office were conditional upon signing the oath pledging obedience to and support of all anti-polygamy laws.
www.polygamyinfo.com /oath.htm   (394 words)

  
 Putting Together Colorado Territory Postal History
Colorado became a state on August 1, 1876 with the same boundaries as Colorado Territory which had preceded it.
Colorado Territory had in turn been formed on February 28, 1861 from portions of four different territories (Kansas, Utah, Nebraska and New Mexico) as shown on the map to the right.
The purpose of this exhibit is to trace the development of mail handling services in Colorado from the earliest period, while still part of the Unorganized Territory, through the period of the Four Territories, and continuing through the early Colorado Territory period.
coloradoterritory.org   (164 words)

  
 Buffalo Soldiers in Utah Territory
Up in Utah Territory in the 1880s, unsung troops of the 9th spent more time protecting Indians, namely the Utes.
Major Frederick Benteen, riding at the head of fl Troops B and E of the 9th U.S. Cavalry, raised his hand and called, "Halt!" at a preselected fort site in eastern Utah Territory, near the confluence of the Duchesne and Uinta rivers.
They were delighted to see reinforcements, regardless of color, especially since the new arrivals had brought them all kinds of supplies and ammunition, as well as a Hotchkiss mountain gun, a type of air-cooled, gas-operated machine gun.
www.thehistorynet.com /we/blbuffalosoldiersinutah   (1224 words)

  
 Map of the Territory of Utah. / Froiseth, B.A.M. / 1870
Short Title: Map of the Territory of Utah.
This copy comes from a group of three copies owned by a descendent of Froiseth, and included with our copy were several items of Froiseth memorabilia that probably have significance due to the destruction of all of Froiseth's papers soon after his death (Wheat note).
Map is folded into burgundy cloth covers 13.5x8.5 with "Maps Of Utah Territory, Great Salt Lake Valley And Salt Lake City, With Portrait And Autograph Of Brigham Young.
www.davidrumsey.com /maps1302.html   (455 words)

  
 Map of Utah Territory. / Mahon, Charles; Renshawe, J. H. (John Henry), 1852-; Graves, W. H.; Lindenkohl, H. (Henry); ...
Full Title: Map of Utah Territory compiled and drawn by Charles Mahon, J.H. Renshawe, W.H. Graves and H. Lindenkohl.
Pub Title: Topographical and geological atlas of the district of the high plateaus of Utah to accompany the report of Capt. C.E. Dutton, U.S. Ordnance Corps, assistant geologist.
Catalogue and index of the publications of the Hayden, King, Powell, and Wheeler surveys, p.
www.davidrumsey.com /maps741.html   (518 words)

  
 Bird's eye view of Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 1870.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bird's eye view of Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 1870.
All historical cartographic items are from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, http://www.davidrumsey.com/, a large collection of online historical maps.
Pub Title: Bird's eye view of Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 1870.
www.davidrumsey.com /maps766.html   (311 words)

  
 Welcome to the Utah Territory!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It's so nice to see that you came back to my page (even though it's been ages since it's been changed.
I'm Jason Gilow, but please call me Utah.
I'm currently enrolled at Butler University in Indianapolis, but I'm a native of Green Bay, WI.
www.angelfire.com /in/utahterritory   (125 words)

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