Samuel Ruggles Aiken diary of the city council of Spring City 1871-1886

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Samuel Ruggles Aiken diary of the city council of Spring City 1871-1886

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Handwritten meeting minutes of the city council in Spring City, Utah kept from January 1871 to April 1886 by various city recorders: Samuel Ruggles Aiken, John R. Baxter, John F. Allred, and S. Burdich. The items of business in the council include the operation of the town and concerns over water rights.

1 v.; (0.15 linear ft.)

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Aiken, Samuel R. (Samuel Ruggles), 1803-1896

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Samuel Ruggles Aiken was born on October 28, 1803 in Hardwick, Massachusetts to John and Sarah Aiken. Before 1869, Samuel Ruggles Aiken headed to the Western United States with fellow pioneers and settled in Utah. In 1871, he was the recorder of city council minutes for Spring City, Utah which had been incorporated in 1870 from its original name of Spring Town. While Aiken was a member of the city council, he also worked on his farm with his family. He later died in Spring City on D...

Baxter, John R. (John Robb), 1851-1930

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John Robb Baxter (1851-1930) served as Justice of the Peace for Sanpete County, Utah. John Robb Baxter was born 9 February 1851 in Aberdeen, Scotland to John Baxter and Jean Mckenzie Robb. He married Janet Gardiner Jack on 16 November 1887 in Logan, Cache, Utah. They had seven children. John served as Justice of the Peace for Sanpete County, Utah, in 1890. He died 10 June 1930 in Spring City, Sanpete, Utah. From the guide to the John R. Baxter territorial com...

Allred, John F. (John Franklin), 1851-1918

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