Box 3
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Brimhall, Sylvanus V., 1870 February-1890 December
File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Mainly family business and discussions of the weather.
Dates:
1870 February-1890 December
Brimhall, John, 1865 October-1893 August
File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Written from various places in southern Utah. John, a devout member of the Mormon church, exhorts his brother George to remain faithful to Mormonism. He writes of family problems in Diamond City in the Tintic Mining District. Also included is one letter from John Jr., nephew of George Brimhall.
Dates:
1865 October-1893 August
Brimhall, Horace, 1859 June-1882 November
File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Horace was the eldest of the family, and in many ways the most outspoken. He was apparently quite prosperous, although in a letter to his brother George, Sylvanus calls Horace a "miser." In this folder are two letters to George W. Brimhall, two letters to John Brimhall, one letter to Noah Brimhall, and one from Horace Brimhall, Jr., to George W. Brimhall.
June 2, 1859 - "I suppose you would like to...
Dates:
1859 June-1882 November
Brimhall, Samuel, to George W. Brimhall, 1883
File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
February 8, 1883 - Informs him of the death of their eldest brother, Horace J. Brimhall.
Dates:
1883
Brimhall, Norman, 1870
File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
This box contains correspondence of the Brimhall family written in the 1800s. Unless otherwise noted, all are letters written to George W. Brimhall by his brothers, sisters, sons, daughter, nephew, and cousins. A large family, it split in the 1850s along religious lines. Part of the family, including George W., John, Norman, and Noah, joined the Mormon church and migrated to Utah. The rest of the family, including Horace, the eldest; Sylvanus, Andrew, Samuel, Mary, and Triphenia, the two...
Dates:
1870
Brimhall, Andrew J.
File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Andrew was a Methodist preacher who apparently came to Utah to labor among the "heathen" Mormons.
Dates:
1932-1983
Brimhall, Triphenia, and S. Brimhall, 1852
File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
November 7, 1852 - Part of this letter is written by Triphenia and part by S (Samuel ?) Brimhall, the father of the clan.
Dates:
1852
Brimhall, Mary Crocker
File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
This group of letters spans nearly forty years. Most are family oriented.
Dates:
1932-1983
Brimhall, Samuel (nephew of George W.), 1862
File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
November 22, 1862 - Written from an army camp near Nashville, Tennessee, where Samuel Brimhall was stationed during the Civil War. "I once lived in a happy country and in a happy home but now alas those times have gone and in their place is servile war that is devastating and laying waste our fertile fields into battle grounds and our [illegible] into heaps of bloody [ashes] and every day the war spirit get higher and oh how I should like to go to some ...
Dates:
1862
Randall, Mary Eliza, 1873-1891
File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Daughter of George W. Brimhall by his first wife.
Dates:
1873-1891