Crookston, Nicholas Oscar, 1885-1944.

Robert Crookston was born on September 21, 1821, in Anstruther, Fifeshire, Scotland. After converting to Mormonism, Robert moved to the United States where he married Anne Welch June 20, 1847, in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. The couple had twelve children, including Nicholas Welch Crookston, their seventh child, born October 22, 1857, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Nicholas married Alice Melvina Rice on November 8, 1883, in Salt Lake City, before moving north to Cache Valley. There he served as sheriff of Cache County from 1883-1890 and 1908-1913, and bishop of the Greenville (North Logan) LDS ward from 1891 to 1911. Nicholas died in North Logan on June 7, 1932. Nicholas' seventh child, Robert Burns Crookston was born in Logan on February 4, 1892. Before his death on September 23, 1965, Robert and his wife Glenda Marie Ballantyne gave birth to Burns Ballantyne Crookston on December 6, 1922. This collection spans these four generations, beginning with Robert Crookston's birth in 1821 to Burns Crookston's death on April 28, 1975.

From the guide to the Crookston family papers, 1857-1976, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives)